Rai won the Miss World pageant back in 1994:
Representing, of course, India.
We liked her acting, and were pleasantly surprised that she does Fergie much, much better than Fergie.
And, above all, was simply beautiful.
If you get a chance to see Robot, do. It was awesome.
I mean, wow.
I'm a sucker for a girl wearing sunglasses, by the way:
Here's my favorite bit from the Wikipedia page:
Though she was raised as a sikh, her parents enrolled her in a Catholic school, as it was felt to be unsafe for her to go to public school. There she had her first kiss at 11, lost her virginity to a basketball player at another school at 16, and found out she was bisexual at 18.
On top of which, of course, she became a porn star.
Imagine what would have happened if she went to public school!
The Axis powers scored a potentially decisive victory over the Allies in Belgium last weekend, as Finland, Italy and Germany took the podium at the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa. The highest-placing Allied driver, Mark Webber of the Australian Imperial Force, only came in ninth.
The F1 series, a global conflict being stage-managed by a diminutive man with dictatorial powers and funny hair, will next break out in Italy one week from now. Britain's Jenson Button leads the championship, with the Pact of Steel of Rubens Barrichello and Sebastian Vettel not far behind.
Despite near-universal agreement that Kimi Räikkönen won the race, the Finnish government has strongly denied participating in F1. "Mr. Räikkönen was not driving in the Belgian Grand Prix," Finnish foreign ministry spokesman Dr. Korhonen insisted. "He was driving a separate Grand Prix series and merely happened to find himself on the same track as the other drivers. This was pure coincidence. Any suggestion that Finnish drivers are participating in Formula One are false, and stem from an inability to understand Finland's unique strategic position." McLaren's PR department supported the Finnish government, openly scoffing at reports of a second Finnish driver in the race.
This year, the constructors' championship is firmly in Allied hands, although their lead in the drivers' series is not secure. French team Renault won two consecutive drivers' championships before surrendering, leaving the series a free-for-all with consecutive Axis and Allied victories in the drivers' series and an Axis-dominated constructors' series.
The strategic landscape of F1 is set to change next year with the United States entering the conflict, but hopes for a strong initial showing are not high. The United States team is widely considered to be inexperienced, and is expected to take time to fully mobilize their potential. Until USF1's application to join the F1 series, US motorsport had been governed by the Monroe Doctrine, limiting F1 to a maximum of two races in North America and restricting American drivers to the isolationist Champ Car imitation series and that thing where they drive around ovals.
Also in the wake of the Belgian GP, Pakistan's Minister of Defence (below) has accused India of destabilizing the region after Force India took their first podium. Minister Turgidson claims that the success of the Indian team has led to the creation of a dangerous "motorsports gap".
Pakistan is responding to what the Minister of Defence called "irresponsible Indian escalation" by founding several kart racing series, but UN officials are trying to broker a strategic racing limitation treaty to stop a "motorsports race" between the two countries.
Meanwhile, reports that South Korea has secured funding for its 2010 Grand Prix did not seem to concern North Korean representatives. They scoffed at the decadent practice of driving cars, pointing out that North Korea has no cars, or indeed anything motorized whatsoever, and is still the world's third-largest economy, with a higher standard of living than Japan. A reporter who questioned their figures was shot. Also, North Korean representatives pointed out that the Great Leader, Kim Jong-il, had previously set a lap time of 1:44.82 around the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, a full two seconds faster than Sebastian Vettel's fastest lap in this year's Grand Prix, and furthermore, the Great Leader set his time on foot.
The next race is set for Sunday, September 13th, pending an FIA investigation into possible French use of Brazilian kamikaze pilots in last year's series. By international accord, the practice of fielding a completely inept second driver for the sole purpose of causing destruction on the track is permitted only for the now defunct Super Aguri team.
"I am certain that the activity of the website is illegal and anti-social. It violates Section 67 of ITA 2000 and several other provisions of IPC. In my opinion this site is more dangerous than a normal adult site since it targets young Indian audience and degrades women," said Vijayashankar, director of Cyber Crime Complaints and Resolution Assistance Center and techno legal information security consultant presently based in Bangalore.
He said it is possible that the publishing of the story itself (if the URL is revealed) would be falling in the grey area of "promoting obscene content" and could invite objections.
Oops, I published the URL too. It's good to know Indian "cybercrime" laws are advanced enough that publishing the URL of a website can be illegal. Wait, that sounds familiar...)
This is the setup:
The dude ringing the doorbell immediately wins my Grand Prize for Most Improbable Porn Profession Ever by introducing himself as "a travelling bra salesman". I think everyone can figure out how it goes from there, but I'll summarize it anyway. She tells him she's not interested, so the guy ha a brainwave and asks if he might come in and have a glass of water. She agrees, and he talks her into trying on a bra. As she does so in the other room, he watches her disrobe via a convenient mirror.
She notices, and is horrified. Then again, she thinks, "what harm can it do" if he sees her breasts? She ends up seducing him, but when he finally gets down to the act, she is horrified again and protests, only to meekly succumb when he doesn't stop.
The ethics at play are fascinating. In a Western porno, she'd just be a horny housewife who wants some dick, and that would be that. In this comic, though, things aren't that simple.
It's possible to read Savita's refusal and subsequent surrender as a slightly disturbing implied rape, but there's a more interesting undercurrent as well. By attempting to refuse, she changes the ethics of the situation. Obviously, according to the code of ethics present in the comic, adultery is immoral. When Savita tries ot refuse the man she's just seduced, she acknowledges this, and her refusal makes her a victim of adultery as opposed to a perpetrator. Then again, any patriarchal culture, and India certainly is one, would also view the man as a victim. After all, who could resist the charms of Savita Bhabhi?
If she straightforwardly seduced the traveling bra salesman, she'd be an adulteress. If he seduced her, he'd be guilty of seducing another man's wife. When, on the other hand, she seduces him but attempts to refuse him when it's already "too late", the situation is changed from a perpetrated crime into the curious opposite of a victimless crime: a perpetratorless crime that only has victims. Clearly she is not totally to blame, as she did try to refuse; clearly he is not totally to blame as he was provoked unreasonably.
This is a wonderful example of the kind of doublethink that our cultural attitudes on sexuality, and our desire to get around them, impose. It also serves to illustrate an important point in the politics and ethics of sexuality as understood in patriarchal culture. Female sexuality is powerful and must be controlled, goes the unspoken dictum. Why? The core reason is that according to patriarchal thought, men cannot resist womens' sexual advances. It's not a question of the power of women but of the weakness of men.
To me, as a man, this has always been one of the most repellent features of patriarchal sexual thought: the idea that I cannot be held responsible for my actions if I am "provoked". It's blatantly obvious what the logic is: the ages-old idea of shifting blame for sex crimes onto the victim. This is the reality of patriarchy in action: if a woman is raped, it's her fault. This is taken to its logical extreme by several different cultures in the institution of the "honor killing", where a woman is murdered by her relatives for being raped.
(It's worthy of a brief note that despite what islamophobes would have you believe, honor killings have nothing to do with Islam as such. They're practised everywhere in the world where patriarchal cultures exist, from Brazil to Bangladesh, and are only really absent in the affluent and secularized West. There's a fair post on the topic here.)
This idea tried to make its way into Finnish legistlation about ten years back. The current law recognizes rape and aggravated rape; a proposal was put forward to include "mild rape" as a lesser form of rape, and accepted. Currently there is a lesser crime of "coercion into sexual intercourse":
Section 3 - Coercion into sexual intercourse (563/1998)
(1) If the rape, in view of the slight degree of the violence or threat and the other particulars of the offence, is deemed to have been committed under mitigating circumstances when assessed as a whole, the offender shall be sentenced for coercion into sexual intercourse to imprisonment for at most three years.
There was a lot of public debate on what these "mitigating circumstances" could entail, and typically for Finnish legistlation, it is entirely undefined. Public discussion revolved around the idea that if the woman being raped was wearing a miniskirt, then it isn't rape.
I don't know how Finnish courts are deciding on the issue, but the fact that that piece of legistlation exists seems to point toward the idea of female irresistability being alive and well in the 21st century.
On a more cheerful note, the comic itself ain't bad. If you're interested, check out Episode 3 for the most improbable blow job ever. (don't you think someone would notice?!)
