[Crimson Dynamo]

(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.

Full article is here: - https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/1...e-full-orwell/

[vesavius]

Not surprised, Rowling is a biological realist after all.

But the producers are reading the national mood and temperature wrong if they think this kind of publicity will boost their view numbers.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by vesavius

Not surprised, Rowling is a biological realist after all.

But the producers are reading the national mood and temperature wrong if they think this kind of publicity will boost their view numbers.

Well people don't want to watch what Big Brother would look like if Keir Starmer was the Showrunner series.

[vesavius]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Well people don't want to watch what Big Brother would look like if Keir Starmer was the Showrunner series.

[Crimson Dynamo]

One of the most famous quotations from George Orwell's novel, 1984, reads:-


The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their
final, most essential command.


It appears in the closing paragraphs of Chapter 7, in Part 1

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

One of the most famous quotations from George Orwell's novel, 1984, reads:-


The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their
final, most essential command.


It appears in the closing paragraphs of Chapter 7, in Part 1

Absolutely chilling but spot on

[Lostie!]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

(Even JK Rowling has re-tweeted this article today..)

You say "even" as if she isn't cripplingly, worryingly obsessed with anything to do with trans people. Her piping up isn't a surprise.

[vesavius]

Originally Posted by Lostie!

You say "even" as if she isn't cripplingly, worryingly obsessed with anything to do with trans people. Her piping up isn't a surprise.

I think that she is only concerned with the trans issue as long as it conflicts with the feminist cause.

I mean, in the end that's what she is.. a RadFem.

It's just the left eating the left.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Lostie!

You say "even" as if she isn't cripplingly, worryingly obsessed with anything to do with trans people. Her piping up isn't a surprise.

hmmm

the she is obsessed angle

1/10 for originality

[MTVN]

All publicity is good publicity at least

[Ray.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

All publicity is good publicity at least

Well, until viewers tune in again and realise why the hell they stopped watching the damn thing in the first place lol. Case in point: Jimmy Kimmel.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by MTVN

All publicity is good publicity at least

Jim says hi

[Maru]

BB will put itself in a straightjacket eventually trying to determine how to rank individual offenses once the expectation has been set in concrete by HMs that they are going to police offense... it will cause some outrage in the media when they inevitably prioritize the wrong offense.

They are setting it up so that HMs will police their own game with grievance farming. It's going to end up destroying the game.

We have already learned about this problem out in the real world which is why corporations are pulling the rug as the writing is on the wall that these systems are rife for abuse.

[BBDodge]

She didn't/doesn't understand the distinction between sex (which is biological) and gender (which is cultural).

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by BBDodge

She didn't/doesn't understand the distinction between sex (which is biological) and gender (which is cultural).

Who didnt

[Maru]

Originally Posted by BBDodge

She didn't/doesn't understand the distinction between sex (which is biological) and gender (which is cultural).

Yes, a culture that suddenly appeared overnight for a vast majority of people. Because that's how cultures usually work.

Edit: Gender began as a grammatical/linguistic term in languages that expressed different characteristics depending on the sex of the subject/speaker... we used gender/sex interchangeably for many years to avoid putting the sexier version on forms without a problem until it was suddenly said to be a separate thing... that change was not gradual.

[Withano]

Even JK Rowling retweeted this’ isn’t the flex you think it is — that’s like saying ‘even a flat-earther agrees with me

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Withano

Even JK Rowling retweeted this’ isn’t the flex you think it is — that’s like saying ‘even a flat-earther agrees with me

i mean come on, surely you have something?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Tommy Speaks

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

Tommy Speaks

I wish that he wouldn't.

People like him will damage the more fair and constructive points that some of us are trying to make about ITV BB.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Jessica.

Didn't George say something antisemitic according to the papers? Why would anyone want him to continue on in the house or for whatever depraved thing he said to be aired?? I'm glad they booted him.

wrong thread