I have to be careful….I’ve ranted about this stuff for years, and am likely to go off on one again. But anyway….
Thank God for Helen and Paul. Neither of whom I was terribly enamoured with originally, but they shine out as a couple of people who started a real relationship – in a reality show.
Kinga and her bottle – last year my BB-hating friend was able to recount the ‘incident’ in great detail – stuff like that gets people talking.
The ‘incident’ worried me, not because it might lead’ young impressionable females to 'touch themselves' (I typed the proper word, but it was as censored here) but because, as it says on a site whose raison d’etre is actually to instruct women in such practices (rather than discourage them): ‘It is much safer to stick with objects that cannot break and potentially damage your insides’. (more interesting words in my search history, as a result of that research)
When Craig ‘busied’ himself, in relative privacy (certainly not in front of any other housemates), there was still some shock and horror amongst viewers and in the press. I would have thought that at that point he was behaving in a real way….not acting up for the cameras, and not messing with anyone else’s feelings.
No, what saddens me is the one-dimensional thing that we see so much of on these type of shows – gorgeous babe, hot guy, flashes her bits, they get it on, etc etc. They probably don't even care about the other person, and certainly haven't bothered to get to know them.
It’s all about ratings, of course, and so it’d be a brave person who would agree to have some older and well, ‘ugly’ (if we use the shallow standards so beloved of the media) people in the house.
Old and ugly people can fall in love. And when people love each other, it’s not ugly at all.
And there's more than one way to skin a cat - people can find love and meaning in many types of relationships which do not have a sexual element.
Perhaps the day will come when there will be an all nude/all swinging/all prancing BB – when everyone and anyone will do everything possible with everyone else. And after the first week, most people would get bored watching those antics. Because all the cavorting in the world won’t fill the emptiness left in the human heart.
And maybe then the totally uninhibed housemates would try to do something really daring – reach out to each other, and dare to expose their hearts.
See – I told you I need to be careful. Rant rant rant…….
'End of' - I hope.
..But fraid I find a porn fest/fight fest duller than dull.Just to see some interaction between folks we can identify with and see some of ourselves (or peeps we know)in....Surely thats whats made the most memorable contestants that?
