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"Abuse"? What absolute nonsense. I'd imagine she did it playfully and at the time he probably took it as that too, a sort of" weird flirtation", it seems like the sort of thing he WOULD like. But then later she turned on him and then he was kicked out partly for being "inappropriate" with the girls, so he NOW sees it as a complete double standard, which it sort of is (happy to have contact and flirt with him as a joke on her terms, not happy about him being suggestive back to them). However, I would be VERY surprised if he was actually upset about it at the time, and that is the only reason it would warrant her being warned for it. If he seemed uncomfortable with what she had done.

In reality though I don't think there is an issue of BB not being consistent here. They've cited all sorts of reasons for him being removed but if we're honest, we all know it was for saying "n**ro", getting warned for it, and then doing it again the next day. Alexander handled it with admirable dignity but you could tell from his face and response that he was horrified. You can put the first offense down to him just being ignorant and not realising that it was considered an offensive term, but after being told explicitly that it is, doing it again is just defiance and not caring that it will cause offense.

I don't think he would be out if it was "just" the inappropriate comments to the girls, without the race issue.

A few years back one poor girl was kicked out more or less instantly for using the n-word in what was actually a less offensive way. She was devastated to have caused offence and, if she had been afforded the luxury of a warning like Ken was, she certainly would never have said the word again (and probably never HAS again). So yeah... I don't really think, in BB terms, that Ken has been treated harshly over this. I think he's been given more leeway than a lot of people in the past when it comes to the race issue.

Not that I personally think he should have been booted - it would actually have been more interesting to do something like have some sort of task aiming to educate him on why his use of language upsets people. It might not work but it would be interesting to try. There have been numerous BB contestants who I feel have come out of the experience having learned a lot and had it really change their world view. That's much more interesting than throwing someone out as soon as they become undesirable.