The Children Of Mumbai Are Dressed For Success (Success = Clean Drinking Water)
Those cute kids from Slumdog Millionaire were models in a fashion show over the weekend. Perfect. They even got to keep the clothes, which I believe if you boil long enough ARE edible.
Setting aside my hate and my cynicism for one second, this is definitely better news than when Azharuddin was beaten by his father, like, one day after he got back from the Academy Awards. Woof. And obviously I want nothing but the best for these two children. We all do. Because they're so cute. If they were ugly I'd be like "Ew, gross! Put them back in the cholera mud." But my genuine and sincere desire for their continued well-being doesn't mean that I am not still completely disgusted by what seems to be Slumdog Millionaire's lasting legacy of aestheticizing poverty to the point that it basically becomes a fashion icon.
Here, the children of Mumbai wait outside of Olympus Fashion Week hoping to get into the Marc Jacobs tent.
LOOKING GOOD, GRRRRRL. So thin! (Via HuffingtonPost.)
Posted by Gabe at 2:00 PM in Where Are They Now?
Tags: Fashion | Slumdog Millionaire
You need to relax.
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Shorter Gabe: "They can't exploit them for money because they don't care, but I can exploit them for laughs because I do."
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DO SOMETHING:
http://www.worldvision.in/?Select+a+Child
http://www.greenpeace.org/india/getinvolved
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The solution to poverty is not charity.
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Well, I'm sorry but I really don't have time to volunteer in effected areas. So, I try to do what I can, be it sponsoring a couple kids or fund raising. While I don't think charity is the overall solution to poverty I like to think that it does help. But I am truly sorry for offending you by posting some links to sponsorship and a email list. Thanks to you're constructive criticism, in the future I will no longer be a fool who donates to charity. You opened my eye's and for that I thank you.
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I’m just saying that the imperative to “DO SOMETHING” is better formulated as “Use whatever meagre political means are at your disposal to expose and overturn the political-economic conditions that sustain poverty.” Starvation is not a distribution problem, to be addressed by funneling a little from over here to over there. It is a political problem. Not that you should stop giving to charity (or volunteering – essentially the same thing). God knows poor people like to eat.
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Fair enough, next time I'll clarify my intent.
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Daaaamn.
Getting all reddit up in this shit.
Stop it. Just stop it. Snarky substantive conversations make me uncomfortable.
I came here to laugh away my middle-class white american sorrows, and you guys have to get all "Let's be responsible and discuss the efficacy of corporate altruism."
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If it's any consolation, I have a silly name.
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poverty porn
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I want to make a movie about kids living in Soweto who end up having a happy, beautiful life. Just so Gabe can keep this up.
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i m ready to participate
im good in doing emotional , comedy and serious drama
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i m ready to participate
im good in doing emotional , comedy and serious drama
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i m ready to participate
im good in doing emotional , comedy and serious drama
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