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Originally Posted by MB.
I personally can't see how CBB housemates can't be judged on past circumstances to at least some extent, especially if those circumstances are what led to them being cast on the show (let's remember that Ann isn't just any old celebrity who happens to have the views that she does; she's a politician who's made a public career based upon, among many other things, voting on laws directly influenced by those views)
But hey, I guess that's my opinion, but at least I'm entitled to it
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Yeah I suppose thats a good point. I tend to try as clean slate as much as I can but cannot deny that sometimes thats hard to do. I knew nothing really of Anns voting record before she went in and maybe if I knew beforehand I would have found it harder to like her. Why on earth was there no backlash when she was on Strictly though..I assume her views were public knowledge then? I don't remember any backlash at all. And theres been next to none either until the past few days...which is especially odd. A few posters were voicing concerns earlier on the series, but the past few days it has ramped up HUGELY and I do feel its less about what she has voted for/against and more to do with people disliking her as a housemate and such.
The conversion therapy thing..appears to be about a gay person who actually wanted to try conversion therapy. I don't see how therapy could 'cure' someone of being gay in the first place, and of course its ridiculously abusive when forced onto people. But I cannot get all up in arms about her supporting a gay person (or someone she thought was a gay person, who was an undercover reporter) in doing what they apparently wanted to do.
Coupled with the rest of her record, it clear she has issues with homosexuality in general though. But seemingly not actual gay people. 'Just' (for want of a better word here) homosexuality overall.
Again though, I do not, especially at this late stage in the game..judge housemates on how they are outside of the house. And nor do many others, usually.
I can compare this to being female and being disabled (am bi but have been in a hetero relationship for like 10 years now so bi doesn't really count
) when trying to work out how I feel about the whole issue. If an MP went in who had voted against womens rights, I could still like them as a housemate, whilst obviously hating their views. If a Tory MP went in who had voted consistently against disabled rights, and was championing the likes of ATOS and claiming most PIP claimants were faking their illness whilst also voting to cut back on vital services for people with chronic pain (my personal issue) and even voting outright to give disabled people second class citizen status..I would possibly judge them harshly at first (if aware of their record, I wouldn't specifically seek it out to pick), but by this stage in the game, their outside voting record would be irrelevant to me as..I watch BB for personalities tbh, not for outside politics.
This just seems to have turned into a longer version of a post I made in another thread, tbh. I seem very repetitive tonight.