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Originally posted by merv
You know! there is no easy way to ask this for fear of offending folk.
Not intended I assure.
But, Channel 4 for do appear to over represent the Gay Community in my opinion.
No matter what the program we are deluged with them.
Come dine with me for example.
Just been down and seen Razor Ruddick in Celebrity wife swap, who have they paired him off with, Pete Burns for god sake.
Far to many to be truly representive of the Gay Population, but just my opinion.
I reckon if we were to add em up, around 10 percent of all housemate past and present have been either Gay or Bi.
That doesn't seem right to me.
Lets have a fairer mix of folk.
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This has come up before and it is a valid point and my main complaint is what over-representation does NOT do:
It does not give us a somewhat realistic microcosm of the UK.
This would seem to me a core premise with Big Brother or at least a concept to be aimed for.
The biggest most outstanding disparity is the over-representation of youth on BB. By far.
In a representative cast we would see x-many from each kingdom and corner (they are not too bad for this),
and,
out of 20 maybe 17 would be 'natives' but 3 would be immigrants (or next generation) and maybe 1 Indian, 1 African, 1 southeast asian,
and,
2 or 3 HMs would be BNP supporters, 5 Tories, 5 grits and in varying degrees of involvment,
About 10 of the HMs would be Christians and again ranging in degrees of enthusiasm with maybe 1 or 2 quite 'devote' to that cause.
5 would have labour jobs, 10 services, 1 wealthy, 4 unemployed sort of thing.
(BB is not too bad with that although few real working class labour job people and way too many models).
Gays?
Well in some sort of representation of society there might be 1 homosexual in 20 HMs.
Maybe even 1 gay and 1 lesbian and you might even have another who has had a 'gay experience' or experimented back in university although don't anymore or since.
A more realistic representation of UK life.
Other arguments/criticisms:
Homosexuals who would also like to see a realistic representation of their social situation.
In real life they might be just 1 person out of 20 in their building who is in that lifestyle.
In society in general they might be just 1 in 100 in many a crowd.
This puts them in a unique position with unique problems/advantages etc.
When they watch BB they see 'their reps' experiencing something completely different and maybe even (they worry) giving the public a very false idea of what their lives are like and actually what FEW problems they ever experience (if going by BBs representation).
In the BB house gays have plenty of other gays and those who are not gay are 100% delighted and approve without a doubt or question.
In reality a gay might literally be the 'only gay in the village' and a most think they are 'weird' and many think they are disturbing and perverted.
A Gay might even make an argument that BB is, ultimately, hurting their cause and safety by misleading the general public into believing there is no more need for concern, support or protections.
But for me its not specifically 'gays' that I'm complaining about but ANY disproportionate representation.
and,
I'm not an accountant about it either. I actually do understand we can't get some sort of 'per capita' match. I do understand they can only work with who applies and agrees to do it,
but,
I'd like to see 'some effort' towards building some sort of representation of society in general and even that might be averaged out over the series.
From the abandoned youtube application hoax BB tricked everyone into earlier I could have gone through and picked out a somewhat more realistic proportion,
and,
not many but a number of interesting older people as well who I might mention got plenty of cheers and 'thumbs up' from a lot of the younger ones.