You think the Love Island contestants are bad? The Miss GB organisers are the grubbiest lot of all
I’m harbouring a dirty secret. It started off as a one-night stand. A grubby little fling, I thought at the time, no more than that. It wasn’t going to be a committed, long-term relationship.
But then I kept going back for more. The tawdriness was addictive. Before I knew it, I was in too deep.
Every night at 9pm, I’ve been tuning into ITV2 to watch Love Island.
Don’t judge me too harshly. There were many reasons that I kept going back. It makes fascinating viewing, seeing supposedly romantic relationships develop under the glare of 24-hour cameras. All the usual insecurity, bravado and courtship is there, but played out at warp-speed in a villa in Mallorca, where the men have tattoos and the women used to date someone who might have been famous. It is anthropological reality television: Clifford Geertz by way of Big Brother.
But the main reason I became a devoted viewer is Zara Holland. Holland was, until a few days ago, Miss Great Britain. I’d never even heard of Miss GB until she mentioned it on air, but basically it’s one of those beauty pageants that pretends not to be a beauty pageant anymore.
Last week, the organisers of Miss GB stripped Zara of her title after she had sex with a fellow contestant. They issued a statement saying that she “simply did not uphold the responsibility expected” and was therefore not a positive role model.
I don’t know about you, but if I’m looking for advice on standards of moral behaviour, I probably wouldn’t go to the organisers of a contest so retrograde that it insists on calling all of its contestants “Miss” and only allowed divorced women to compete in 2010.
The way they’ve treated Zara is contemptible. Zara was not the first Love Island resident to have sex; simply the first to be slut-shamed in the national media for it.
Maybe there was an ulterior motive to her actions and she was doing it to safeguard her place in the villa. Or maybe she just wanted to have sex with a man she fancied. She is allowed to do this, what with it being 2016 and women having the right to vote, the right to birth control and the right to sleep with whoever they please.
Thanks to everyone supporting Zara @Official_MissGB make their own minds up but I personally (not Zara) think it's a big mistake #loveisland
Clearly, Zara is out of step with Miss GB, but not in the way that they imagine. She is a modern woman who knows what she wants. They, by contrast, are an organisation propagating the patronising, sexist notion that women must behave a certain way.
The Miss GB woman needs to be pliant and pleasing; to wave and smile and wear a tiara. And she shouldn’t ever actually have sex even, though her entire demeanour is designed to be sexually appealing. It’s a filthy hypocrisy.
You think the Love Island contestants are bad? The Miss GB organisers are the grubbiest lot of all.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/06/17/you-think-the-love-island-contestants-are-bad-the-miss-gb-organi/
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