The Big Brother 2005 thread is providing some most entertaining reading (even though I've seen barely anything of the show), and Ganesh is definitely setting the pace:
So... highly-opinionated, spiky, abrasive 'alpha people' all, or almost all. I suspect Ahmed's not gonna last the distance, and poor old Victor's looking a tad cowed (possibly by the presence of so many loud batty-people). Of the poofs, Marco seems to be pretty much the standard-issue Asexual Screamer; Dan looks like he actually has sex with men sometimes. Jason appears to be constructed of Spam.
They've given up on the hets and non-exhibitionists this year, haven't they? Ahmed's sphincter must be watertight.
Kitten's spearheading the suitcase rebellion and Stuart, as the show's proto-Barbeloid, is her admiring acolyte. As has been said previously, Kitten looks great on paper and talks a good game (subverting patriarchal heteroppressive systems for the hell of it, etc., etc.) but I suspect her primary means of self-definition is through opposition to something, and if she had nothing to fight against, she'd barely exist, psychologically speaking. I think she's only partly aware of this, and retro-mythologises herself accordingly as a heroic iconoclast. Thing is, I reckon being in the Big Brother house is gonna spell out for her the way(s) other people react to that persona: if they accept her as a funky rebel and go with it, well and good; if they decide she's an emotionally-draining pain in the arse, and shun her, it's gonna be difficult for her to do the big 'Fuck You' And Run without losing face.
And yes, Marco is annoying me excessively. I'd love to say it's because he appears to have been hand-picked to represent the gay male stereotype in the way that Kitten represents the stereotypical dyke - but I think it's a more visceral thing. No doubt I'm repulsed by my own Inner Sexless, Witless, Screaming Queen...
The last one made me laugh out loud. |
