Turncoats

A footnote to the story about the nasty little Big Brother housemate who thinks ‘men kissing is disgusting’. Not being a viewer of the show, I was unaware of the full hypocrisy of the situation. This rampantly heterosexual, genuine Aussie sheila had, throughout the time she was in the house, indulged in ostentatious girl-on-girl action for the edification of the males in the house and in pursuit of a few million straight erections out there in TV land… great for the ratings hey?

It’s annoying enough that this girl is more than happy to play to that boring, lame but persistent heterosexual male notion that when women kiss, they do it for men… but to let out a little Paris Hilton style ‘eeeww’ when gay men do the same thing for love, or lust, or even just because they are bored – and let’s face it, any reason is more noble than ‘because loads of sleazy straight men will be watching’ – goes beyond hypocrisy.

Straight women and gay men have always stuck together – in solidarity against the oppression of straight men, for whose slavering, leering gaze most televisual twaddle such as BB is manufactured in the first place. There’s something really depressing about those women who shamelessly cross the picket line. They’re worse than men.