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Originally posted by beso
For example, in the first two years we had the ex nun from ireland and brian dowling, who in my opinion were two great hopusemates.
when you take these two and measure charlie and that scots lad from last year, i think it is begining to become that way.
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IMO Big Brother loses a lot of core fans the further and further they get away from some sort of realistic representation of the cross-section of people in our society.
- Let me be clear, I do not believe it must be a per-capita exact replica in miniature,
and,
I am the first to acknowledge you can only find so many willing participants and it might be unrealistic to find (for example) 4 people over the age of 60 who would do this,
but,
At the very least try and aim for this 'microcosm' of the UK in general.
This would also quite possibly include one person who is largely 'asexual' in life. A spinster, a man who is simply not interested.
and,
This might include one male who is homosexual and a female who is lesbian.
At the most per season.
The other problem - and I think this might be closer to the OPs complaint - is that it is not a case where we pick the person first and it so happens they might also have a gay sex life.
Instead,
BB is deliberately trying to find 'A Gay' first and when they say 'a gay' they are looking for someone who first and foremost wears and acts what they want to see as 'the gay'.
This is almost always the 'flamboyant' gay, the emotional and fashion flaunting gay.
Or for some reason Camp Frankenstein in there. A big ole monster gay who squeals over clothing fashions.
IF there was one character like that in a season it would still be an over-representation of the society in general but I can accept that all fair enough,
but,
for whatever reason loading the house with what seems like dozens of flamboyant emotional fashion loving gays is just annoying,
becomes very dull in short time,
really takes away from the many other possible types of interactions with different people.