(Even JK Rowling has re-tweeted this article today..)
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A contestant has been humiliated for the thoughtcrime of believing in biological sex.
Sitting hunched with her hands over her face, Caroline Monk looked less like
a contestant on a reality show and more like the victim of a struggle session
in Maoist China. Last night, the disembodied voice of Big Brother scolded the
56-year-old for using ‘unacceptable’ and ‘offensive’ language.
‘Sorry’, she sniffled. ‘It was a horrible thing I said. I don’t know where it
came from. I can’t excuse myself.’ At first, she was so filled with shame she
couldn’t even look at the camera. ‘I will make sure I apologise profusely to
everyone because I can see the disappointment in everyone’s eyes.’
This cringing show of contrition on prime-time ITV might have been
warranted had Caroline embarked on a racist tirade or tried to whip up an
insurrection. But her supposed transgressions were far more mundane. One
was to have asked a fellow contestant who identified as pansexual whether
she ‘likes pans’. Another was pointing out that Zelah, a female contestant
who identifies as male, doesn’t ‘have a willy’. The only offence that could be
squeezed from either remark is that they’re a bit bloody predictable.
Yet Caroline has now found herself the target of the daily Two Minutes Hate.
A petition is already circulating demanding her expulsion from the Big Brother
house, while commentators feverishly speculate about her suspiciously right-
wing leanings. On ITV2’s Big Brother: activist show Late and Live, David Potts and Jack
Remmington nodded sagely to one another as they suggested she could be
‘best friends with Nigel Farage’.
It’s hard to think of a more perfect, or circular, case of life imitating art. A
woman on a TV show named after a novel about a totalitarian surveillance
state has been publicly humiliated for committing thoughtcrime. And it was
beamed straight into homes across Britain via our telescreens.
What makes this all the more galling is that Caroline’s views are no more
abnormal than they are offensive. Earlier this year, five UK Supreme Court
judges agreed that women don’t have willies. This truth is now enshrined in
law. As a female, Zelah is legally obliged to use facilities for women. Polls
show most people agree with keeping single-sex facilities single sex.
Caroline’s humiliation on Big Brother wasn’t entertainment, it was an attempt
at indoctrination. The message is clear: truth is dangerous, compliance is
safe, and shame is the price of staying in the game. Reality television –
indeed, reality itself – has rarely looked so dystopian.
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https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/1...e-full-orwell/