T&A In India; Naturally

Here's a two-for-one Twisty Faster reference post.


First, she brings the news that high-brow Western culture is fast following offshored jobs to India: Maxim magazine is starting an Indian edition. Twisty has a few pointed words about this, in De Spread of Debauch (worth clicking through to if only for her Photoshopped Indian stripper goddess),

Lucky India! Perhaps now that backward hellhole of a subcontinent can retrain its recalcitrant female population to lovingly embrace the male gaze, just like their enlightened, surgically-enhanced western sisters. Because, let’s face it; until now Indian women have been woefully ignorant of the enormous sense of freedom and self-worth that obtains through sashaying around town in hot pants and stiletto heels in exchange for male approval.

But better even than Twisty's twisty prose is the very last bit of the Guardian article, linked above, which I will now spoil for you.

Iona Ferguson, daughter of retired diplomats in London and now living in New Delhi, is the only woman on the tiny Maxim team working 14-hour days in a basement to get the first edition ready for the December launch.

"I do find it rather ironical that I came to India to explore spirituality and yoga and ended up working on a tits-and-ass magazine," said Ferguson.

Lastly, as a Twisty bonus, here are some philosophic musings by her on the subject of what is "natural".

Meanwhile, because there’s a new “gay movie” out [Brokeback Mountain], here’s an article that seems to be saying “gay humans are ‘natural’ because sometimes male sheep fuck each other.”

How about this: everything everywhere is “natural.” Plastic is natural. Murder is natural. Cars are natural. Monsanto is natural. When cockroaches inherit the earth it will be natural. It’s even natural for imbeciles to claim that homosexuality isn’t natural. It can’t be otherwise. That humans have contrived any thought or object or behavior that is not inherent in the very constitution of the earth is impossible. Everything here, as far as the eye can see, was puked out of the guts of the same star. Events -– geological, metaphysical, chemical, comical -– have proceeded accordingly.