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I am a bit drunk. a lot actually.#Why do we drink so much, too much, in London?

Man and women are different. Wow what a surprise... I am actually surprised we still talk about the differencies so much. I am also a bit irritated by the fact we are still thinking about differences in a gender-opposed way to be honest!
Let me set the plot. I will try and say it quickly: I am a feminist. Ooooh aaaaah! When I say that in public I still get a lot of sh*t and usually more from women than from men... Being feminist has become so out of fashion apparently. I guess it is because this word has such a negative image in collective minds. To the risk of being very unpolitically correct I'll break it down for you. Femisnist = angry bitch probably too ugly to get men or even interact with them, probably lesbian no by choice and argumentative by nature who has to blame someone (men) for not finding happiness in this world. My definition of a feminist is by far a different one. Before I get there let me give you an insight of who I am. A woman (although I believe that a man could be a feminist too nowadays) who is in a relationship with a man she loves and admires for many reasons, whois working and enjoying it, whose professional role is quite a succesful one involving managing both genders, whose employer has been giving her many opportunities and so far has been offering development and promotions without ever mentioning her gender. I am a woman in my early thirties who still gets compliments of the appropriate kind on a daily bases ( I do take the inappropriate ones into account but store them for the next years to come, when they will dry out inevitably!). I am happy in life and have lots of friends woth that name and still meet enough people who can make their way to be my friends.
Still I am a feminist.
My main point is that even if I can be really gratefull of the evolution of women in the past 20 years I still consider that there is a long way for us to be in a position that entitles us to as much as much as men's with equal strive. And in the ethos of the society we live in I still think that we have to fight quite a lot compared to what men have to fight to get to similar results. Women are not the only ones in this situation and there is still a lot to fight for for many minorities.
I am happy proud and enjoy being a woman. Not close to undergo any sex change (or just for a few hours and enjoy the manly ability to pee outdoors between to cars by just unzipping my fly - but that is just about it). I also consider the fact that it must be quite hard for men to assess their position in society now that women have been changing so much. I also realise that, for the men who are my age and have to take on board a new gender reality while they have been raised by women who were mainly mums at home and strictly being wifes and mums, it is stretch to have to deal with me at work and find the woman who will be their partner. I have also been raised by this mum and find it quite hard to find a partner who won't have the expectations my dad had when he chose my mum (men use to chose).
The reality is that I am doing more or less what any boy with similar skills who was at school with me is doing now.
The reality is that I might be getting open doors easier because I am good looking and it helps. But at the same time once in the job I still have to work a bit harder to be recognised in the same way as my fellow male coworker.
When single I have to mind about my answer to potential partners to "would I want to have children?". If I say yes I might be seen immediately as a needy and potentially sperm user/bunny boiler because I am in my early thirties. If I answer no to the same question (as a thirty-something) I will sound like a cold bitch. I am in a loose-loose situation in those cases where any man of whatever age would always answer yes (in my experience) and never bring any judgement of any sort upon him. In the workplace I am a dangerous hire: because of my age I am obviously striving to get pregnant before I am out of date and will put maternity before anything else. A man in the same age range never gets the same treatment that he has or considers having children.
I also really cringe at all these common generalisations over gender. A woman who is simply unhappy about something and rants about it is considered "hormonal", "premenstrual" or "having her periods" or just "emotional" whilst a man in the same situation is just having a rant. Women are said to be bitchy when men doing the same are not even categorised. Women supposedly love gossips but men are just sharing information... Women "nag nag nag" in heir relationship while men argue.
Women are deemed emotional, like arts and love shoes. Men with similar behaviours would be called sensible, educated and elegant.
I do care about my appearance and I probably have more items in my wardrobe than I should. Strangely enough my boyfriend's wardrobe is bigger and he does spend at least as much time to get ready than I do (15 min tops). I do like reading magazines and enjoy gossips. Strangely my latest team composed of men only and ex-fx traders were always talking about trends, cussing anyone out of fashion and controlling the gossips of the entire department. I am sometimes moody especially in the morning but nothing beats my boyfriend's streaks of anger int he morning. I don't drive and therefore it is easy for me to get aggravated when I hear comments about women being bad drivers, I agree. Still according to insurance companies men are far more involved in accidents than women. Strangely (again) common belief is that women are worse drivers than men...
Now let's have a look at scientifically proved facts. Men are loosing their home or car keys at least once a day and spend a lot of time looking for these. And I mean lots of time. Women spend far less time to fing keys. If you have ever been in a relationship you know it is true. as a woman you happen to know where your man's keys are even if you weren't there when he dropped them wherever he did drop them. scientists casme up with an answer to explain this. It is apparently about vision. a woman comes into a room and scans the whole place so that she has precise idea of what is where, the colour of th armair and the exact position of the car keys. Still according to scientists men have a different attitude when they get into a room. What matters to thm is only what is satisfying a specific purpose for them and the rest is ignored. Hence the keys situation. They can spend 2 hours looking for them and the woman who just gets or earlier got in the room is able to specifically pinpoint the location of the keys. According to scientists men and women have different ways to embrace space...
Whoever has been in a road trip with a person of the other gender can comment about it. It seems that women have difficulties to read a map and give the right info to the male driver. all the same it seems that a male driver seems uncapable of ever admitting he got lost and even consider asking a local for directions where women would do it immediately.
This is what scientists say. My personal experience concurrs. So yes men and women are different. As a feminist I have no problem agreeing with this. I also think that being different is great. Being different is the best thing. I just would like everyone to consider the following facts:
- Men are supposed to take care of all home building kits from Ikea (or elwhere). I am 33 and own my own drill because all my boyfriends and father have either destroyed walls and/or been unable to build the thing.
- Women are hormonal supposedly: yes they are, just as much as men. Men have hormones too, just as much. The difference with women is that they are pissy when there is no reason such as prriods for them to be...
- Women are emotional. Human beings are emotional. Even animals are. It is a quite good thing to be emotional because if you are not you are a robot... Men are emotional. A lot. It is just not called like that. But it should. Ask England supporters how they feel about England not making it to UEFA...
- Women do get pregnant whilst men don't. No arguing with that though I do know many mothers who would have happily passed the buck of being pregnant and giving birth to the father. Being pregnant is not an ilness and most women can carry a normal activity until term. The women who have to take time of work are in a situation that no man or other woman would envy and should get enpathy. Once the baby is born it is nowadays a similar task for the mother and the father to be in charge. Of course the breastfeeding is specifically a mother responsibility and that is why maternity leaves are made for in the UK. Milk is important for the baby, sure, but having 2 parents is equally important. Finland imposes a leave for both parents after a birth. How strange?! Funnilly enough Finland is the country in Europe that has the lowest criminal rate... Food for thoughts I guess.
- The other day I watched a movie called "Reign over me". I thought it was going to be a little American, a lot anti-terrorist and very much Twin Towers oriented. Turns out it wasn't. The mere point was about widowhood and coping as well as friendship and the need for human beings to have free time and think. One anecdote in this movie was about this widow who was not paying attention whe his wife about to disappear was telling him about how she was thinking about redecorating the kitchen and he dismissed the conversation just before finding out whe was in the first plane that hit the twin towers and died. He had since then been mourning in his own way and part of the process was his repetitive attempt to get the kitchen his late wife would have liked and this man's late understanding of something that mattered for his wife but he could not acknoeledge by the time she was alive. Later in the movie you see the parents of the late wife looking at the latest redocorating attempt by the widower and the woman saying that she is sure her daughter and grand-daughters would have like this kitchen after what her husband says - just like the widower daid in his last conversation with his wife - "this is just a kitchen". Women work on the "nest" by making all details important. The kitchen and its style is important and not linked to any cost or other consideration. The man might not see immediately a reason with it but when they are with the right partner they will see int he result a confirmation that they chose right. I do know a few menwho are much more involved than their wife in these matters and the wife will equally appreciate their attention to detail. Me and my partner cook and enjoy being in the kitchen and I know that if we ever have to choose a kitchen from scratch we will do it together. None of us is allocated to the redecorating business.
- I have a drill and a toolbox. My boyfriend has a toolbox but it is small. I am the one hammering nails in the walls and using the drills. He could do it though but not as well and it would probably take ages for him to get things done.I am a woman he is a man. The size of my toolbox doesn't make hima lesser man. I appreciates my skills and I appreciate him being open minded about me doing that kind of work.
- Whe we go out, usually together me and my boyfriend, he is happy for me to be meeting and talking with men and so I am when he does so with momen. I am not expecting him to mount any other woman for the sake of survival of human beings and believe that he is respectful o me in any situation even when I aam not aroung. Equally he is not punching anyone I am talking with and is genuinely happy that I am getting interest from other men and takes it as a compliment.
I feel very happy and grateful that I have a partner that is so outstanding. I am also glad that he is not such an exceptionand a lot of men around me are behaving in the same way as far as I know.
I am grateful for the improvements that have happened for momen int he past 20 years. I am more than grateful I was born in the mifd seventies instead of the mid fifties or sixties even.
Still there is a lot to fight for I think. I see lots of younger girls than me who are, I think, believing they are better off and do act in a way that makes me think they are worse off than my mother amnd grand-mother's generations.
I also believe that we are not helping each other as women nowadays. Where men stand for eachother just by the fact they are men we as women tend to bitch a lot and be the major obstacle for us to take over the world.
World take over is not my goal. Really. I just wish we, women, could be better at helping each other to just be happy.
It is a long way to go. I know. I think it is possible and that we are not better but worth it.
Are you up to be another woman helping another woman? My step daughter will be I guarantee yoy. My son or daughter (whatever it will be) will do so. So now it is really about you. Stop bitching about the other woman in the club/bar/restaurant/office. Give her a compliment and make her your ally. Hire women when you can and make sure yor pqrtner is being a parent as much as you are. This is for sure a way to improve the world and hence your own situation.

I am hopeful.

Something that has been bothering me for a few months is who are the model figures for our youg girls and future women.
I am a woman. I am in age to have children but haven't gone there yet although I am now considering it as I have met a partner that makes me not only happy but also represents the father I would want to be a mother with. We haven't started the production, we are still practicing, but I would be happy and he would be too if we were to get into serious work in a year or so.
Although I am not the mother of someone I am already someone's stepmom. And I take my role seriously. And in mother tradition I have started to worry. Isn't this the job after all?

I look at this little girl already so clever and so gorgeous and I make comparisons with what I know: not more and not less than me or what I remember of me. And I see her as a very much more confident and happy person than I was by 20. She is only 2! I feel that all the lessons we have had through observing our own parents together with the knowledge we all got in the past years through learning of opening up, getting closer to our feelings and understanding about how crucial it is to be encouraging free expression, has been making us parents who feel better and more secure about the task. It is still a difficult one and we all know that the worse is to come. Still I believe that we enjoy the task more than our parents did and that we take it with more delight and true interest.

I am not saying though that we are better parents than ours were. I just think that they had more pressure and less preparation and also more time to spend with them...

I set the plot and told you that I have a stepdaughter. As much as I enjoy every second with her, the worries have started eating me.
I am looking at how she will grow up and turn into a teenager and a woman. all this anyway is tricky independently of when and where you were born. Surel we all agree.

What I worry about most is who or what is going to be leading her in life. I look around and struggle to find role models for little girls or teenagers. Who is out there is and is setting the plot for her? Who is out there that offers an aspirational way of life?

I can think of Dora the exporer and thank god for her she is a strong feminine figure billigual and happy go lucky who finds resources to go through life with the help of her backpack and friends. I like Dora and my stepdaughter too. But hey this is going to last for a few years, maybe til she is 4 but what will happen then? Dora is not going to entertain for much longer if she even does it til she is 4. so what who is taking the lead?

I have no idea.

I remember being a post child. Not that being a child had been easy for me. But still after that what is there? I cannot find anythng out there that would be showing her the lead...

Recently I have watched Kidulthood. That was the worse I could ever see probably in this perspective. Youg girls with no self estime, very deluded about life, their opportunities and ready to give it all for either a chewing gum or drugs. Girls who think they got the power over men but only through the cheap sale of their bodies. It made me sick.
I have been a teen ager too and I know thta it is the age during which you discover your power over men. I have used it and abused it for probably to many years but still the whole thing for me was to tast and check reactions but not to give anyone whatever they would ask for. Is Kidulthood a fair portrait of our society? I am not sure. Still it made me very sad.

The OCDE has a way to calculate the rate of development of any country based on different and varied indicators. One of them is the price of the Big Mac is the specific country, another the number of tv per household. One siginficant indicator is the level of education of women. This indicator is quite strong in determioning the development of a country. It is easy to understand why: women are usually the primary input for children. If they are aware of basic rules of hygiene they will ensure the longevity of the life of their children. But they are also mostly responsible of education and pass on values through generations.

The Uk is considered a developed country. It boasts culture and reafirms it with pride. Though rates of teenage suicide as well as teenage pregnacy are higher than ever. TV shows us multiple examples every day of celebrities who achieved this status by showing their feminine attributes (glamour girls supposedly the job most teenagers regard), and marrying males with money security. Jordan is the successful business woman and the WAGs are the most achieved result of a lifetime. What happened to us?

When I was growing up all the girl power was still managing its way up but I was already encouraged to look at life in no different way than my fellow male school students. I was told that even if it might be a bit more difficult I could do whatever boys could. Women were getting into boardrooms and some were even ruling countries. I was not set such a challenge but just told that I could aim at what I wanted. There was no mistake though: I would have to give as much work as the boys if not more but I was allowed where my grandmother would never have thought about and where my mother could only dream of.
I never dreamt of showing my tits in the page 3. All the contrary: this would have been a shame. I never even imagined that I would marry a rich man and therefore earn my token for not make my own money. Never. I was raised by someone who knew all about it and wished me better than having to ask a man for money to buy a pair of socks.
allright the WAGS might not beg and they are actually buying really cute shoes. Good for them if it make them happy and fulfilled. Nothing wrong with it but I would not want to be in their situation. What if the hubby decides he has enough with you and shuts down the flow of cash. What if after a life of luxury and orange tan you are sent to the under the bridge life. What if you have already showed your tits by then and there is nothing left for you to sort yourself out?

As much as I beleive that these women make a choice and should be respected for it I am worried that they are the only models offered nowadays to the growing generation. I am scared that too many girls see fame and no self respect as the way to go. For me it is worse than the time your parents were choosing your husband for you and you would have to be his slave for as long as he would live. I hate the idea that any woman would have limited choices in life at any point of their life.

I wonder how our little girls will be facing the world and hope they will find some kind of inspiration to do so brilliantly. Women are our future, let's not forget about it. Let's make sure they get in the best possible situation in life.

What do you think?

Aaaaaargh!

Another rant about tv? Yes but no but yes but no but yes...

Just watched another "How to look good naked" and again having very mixed feelings and again thinking I should not have experienced that as a tv viewer.

Will try and make this entry as short as possible. If you have read any of my previous blogs you'd know I don't have a tv and haven't had one for 9 years and feel pretty good about it although I quite like to be informed about what is going on in there and read anything that comments tv programmes...

Now what about "How to look good naked"? Really? I agree with the main assumption in the show that is most women in this country (and probably in the western world, mind you in the rest of the "other" world they might have other concerns...) most women are concerned and obsessed about their body and their appearence. According to Gok, and I would not be questioning that fact, most women are actually unhappy/ashamed of their body. His point and main perspective in his show is that while a 90 percent of the UK female population is unhappy and ashamed about their body and appearence there is still only one woman type displayed in the magazines, adds and celebrity shots: the skinny, toned, tanned and small-round/bottomed and titsized woman that is realy the result of surgical enhancement procedures + botox etc + super wonder photoshop on a few. So basically we are all, us real women actually "competing" with a very tiny proportion of complete bollocks unreal images that are produced to makes us feel bad and buy lots of expensive stuff. The reality is that is is a winning strategy as we all, us real women, buy lots of that stuff. I do too... Less than I used to, more than I say I do, still more than I should considering that I do not make a living out of my body and that I have a boyfriend who allegedly loves me "how I am". Also I am taller than the average (5.7), slimmer than the average (65 kg), muscular and toned even if I stopped exercise about 15 years ago and live out of my achievements in childhood. I am 33 which means something like 125 in women years compared to boys years but for some reason (that might be relating to the fact that my parents have always been going to bed before 9pm, don't drink and don't smoke, never took drigs, and eat still very consciously) I actually look much younger. So you got it: I look good and young, I am thin and toned. Sure. Great. Still. I do feel the years adding up. I do have cellulite (I call it exponential cellulite as each month is worse than last year...). I go out and most of the time have to come to the hurtful realisation that I am the oldest woman in the premisces if I discard anyone having had a sex change.
I think I still look good and get my quota of compliments everytime I go out with the bonus of a few "can't believe you are 33, your skin is so beautiful!". I have friends and acquaintances, I have a job I actually enjoy and I even make money out of it. Someone I love loves me and I am pretty happy.
Why I am buying all this shit that is costly and is mostly failing into delivering a tight ass and cellulite-free thighs? How come am I still buying all these magazines that expose an image of a woman that actually doesn't exist and also displays all the adds that too easily convince any of us that by buying products we might have a chance to get closer to the 15 year old teen in the fashion shots that os supposed to look mid 20s and has been photoshpoed to hell? I do f**king now about it but I ma still going for the 3 ultimate anti-cellulite creams of the year and almost cry every time I have to face my image in a changing room...

I watched about 4 "How to look good naked" programmes. I actually think that the main concept - make women stop competing with something that is not real and getting more confidence with their body, stop hiding it and start using their best features instead of hiding it all behing big tents of fabric - is positive and very right as well. I am also a strong believer that beauty and being attractive is more about what you ooze than exactly what you look like. I think that Gok's programme is very valid: taking someone very insecure through a path of 1) realising what their body really looks like versus their own mistaken idea 2) addressing a more adecuate clothing 3) challenging specific body problems 4) bringing on alternative feedback. I wouldn't do it otherwise. The whole process he proposes is a very proving one and shows results.

So what? Well, I can't help but feel cringing during the whole show. I can't help but think that if anyone is feeling quite uncomfortable with their body it must be very distressing to have to be filmed in your underwear and then without it later on in the show. I makes me scream when Gok shows up at the "victim's" place and exposes the full content of her underwear drawer for the audience. It makes me absolutely mad when Gok has a talk with the "victim" about her posing nude and then even catwalking nude that turns into something that the "victim" might very much feel as something she has no choice about. I see that person coming out of all it and being very much chuffed about the whole experience (they just had a crowd shouting they were great and probably feel very high then)and they acknowledge the change for better then. I am pretty sure that this woman feels great then while filmed but what about after when the realisation of what they ahve dome in front of the cameras sinks in? They have been filmed at their most vulnerable moment in the worst and ugly and unprepared underwear, they had their body exposed when they were not even showing it in dim lights to their boyfriends/husbands, they showed themselves in the worse looking big pants (worse than Bridget Jones'biggest pants!) and had to have their worse pants displayed on tv...

I like the personal development part of the show and really believe it is successful in making these women more confortable and confident but I hate the fact that it is broadcasted. I can't help myself to think that these women might feel very embarrassed when the show is on. I'd love for someone to give me more confidence, give me advoce and suggesting outfits I might not consider but would be better for me than what I usually wear. Still there is no way gok is showing up at mine uninvited and goes through my wardrobe and displaying anything I don't want him to. No way I am going for a nude shot that will be broadcasted accross the country (at least) and then getting pushed into catwalking in a mall next door to mine (come on!!!) in underwear with a potential plus of me going on there naked.
No way, Jose!

Arrrrrrgh... Am I the only one to cringe?!

You'll think I am a fake for writing this (specially after having written that I was going to bed but hey, second thoughts happen to anyone right!).

Big Brother UK 2008. It started tonight. I don't have a TV. I haven't had one in 9 years and feel pretty good about it. I am aware of what is going on in TV though and read anything related furthermore love to talk or write about it. S
till I haven't watched BB ever in the UK or elsewhere. I have heard about some of the very very outstanding participants (usually for bad bad bad reasons you all know as well whatever your involvment in it is) but I am still quite a virgin in that register.
This was just to set the plot and tell you more about who I am beforehand. But let's get personal!

Last night I watched the BB 2008 "entering the BB flat and introduction of participants" show at a friend's. It was on but we weren't really watching... For some reason I was the only one stuck in front of th screen absolutely gobsmacked! It was quite something... Let me detail and ask you for input - as per now I feel quite lost:

1. I cannot really inderstand how anyone would want to go there (I haven't watched it before but still know that nothing interesting, valuable or worth the experience is going to happen to the contestants). What are these persons' motivations??? Do they have any motivation in life?

2. Who is in age of getting there and able to leave work for many weeks or months? I( do not even know how long the whole thing lasts for but more than a 2 weeks holiday, right?): a person of private means, I'd guess. But, hey, as far as I know there was no one in that situation to ever participate in the UK version (please correct me if I am wrong). So anyone who participates is therefore someone who is potentially not liable or has fixed costs like rent and additional bills for the amount of time the whole thing could last for (are contestants being paid or do they get any kind of compensation for the time they are in? You tell me).
Who is that? Well if you ask me... You are not but if you're reading you're gonna get my opinion!
I believe that a BB contestant is a person who is not involved (yet or ever) whatsoever in real life and is therefore able to "disappear" (rather the contrary I'd say as they will be over-exposed) for a number of weeks/months. To me that means someone who is not part of society and someone who is not accountable. Let's call it: you must be some kind of looser with little options in life (in your early 20s!!!) to get in there. So young and so limited... How sad! This should be a very important reminder for our political representatives to create possibilities an opportunities for this category of people. I feel sick at the idea that every year a considerable number of twenty-something apply to appear in this show and consider that option as the best they could possibly have in life. This is wrong. Very wrong. Any mayor or MP should seriously consider the fact that a large population of the UK is so limited in their potential that they consider BB as a strong chance to improve their lifes... That or shagging some football/showbusiness/political "elite" and then sell the story to a tabloid an dmaking a few bucks, get slashed by the audience, buy a flat in some shihole in Spain, get a boob job and open to more opportunities in life as such as shagging another Z-list celebrity and have the story sold by either a "best" friend or even their mother.
Seriously we are in a developped country. One of the G7. The elite of the western world. Meaning basic requirements in terms of political stability and level of health and education are accessible to most. These criterias once met should guarantee that the generation in age to be starting or involved in the professional life should be given enough choices to be performing for themselves and the elders in that society. They should see rewards in progressing in their development and should be driven to make a living and at the same time have faith in the idea of being able to always get more out of their consistent efforts not only for themselves and family but also for the community and society they live into.
I don't think it is the case at the moment and feel deeply concerned about it. I see BB and he fact it is still going as a failure for the government of this country to offer mainstream good free education and real opportunities and to anyone. Furthermore the success of BB shows that there is an audience of disillusioned people not involved enough to have the time to watch a very uninteresting statement of their own failure and lost faith in anything worthwhile.
How sad...

3. I understood throught the comments that at least 2 of the contestants are parents of young children.
How shocking is this? How questionable? Questionable more for the people who choose the contestants than the contestants themselves!!! A young child that you are raising on your own (that is what I thought you could understand from the descriptions last night) and you leave them to get into over-exposition and great chances of being slagged off publicly for anything you will be dpoing during the show or whatever you did before and will be getting out of the trashcans of your past and dissected in the media and then out there for ever, that you marry a footballer a rockstar or that you have to go back to where you started but with such a diminished credidibility that your potential is reduced to ever be at lowest payroll you ever thought existed?! Come on! Child services should be on the case for god's sake! And mediatic ethical authorities should be involved in questioning the ethos of the producers of BB. Am I the only one shocked?! Please share your thoughts!

4. As I explained I haven't been watching BB so far but I have read and heard about what has happened before in it. It is usually not anything anything anyone would be proud to be told about them...
Anytime BB is mentioned it is rather about scandalous and or embarrassing facts. I would imagine that anyone applying to get in there has more information that me and has been watching the programme more than me. I would think that they are also very much aware of what happend to any of the previous contestants. You have more chances to be ridiculed than to ever make anything out of it. Why would you ever take that risk? Then how would they want to be involved?! I don't get it!

5. Who watches BB? Seriously? Who could possibly be interested in watching a buch of loosers (see point number 2) every day and minute for weeks? I do not comprehend this... The few bits I have seen before were moments of strong boredom and stupidity that weren't even funny oir entertaining... Rather ugly and pathetic. Mostly the image of anything you would never want to be any close!
But someone must be watching or the programme wouldn't be on anymore, right? But who then? complete enigma to me. Please help here and give me some info about the audience and if you are watching explain why. I might be completely off the case and unable to get the point and would love to get some valuable input.

6. Who the f**k are the BB contestants? Oh my god! Nothing like anyone I know and god knows my entourage is quite varied... But these persons are just like caricatures! They don't seem real to me. Are they? do they qualify in any way as a truthful sample of the UK? Again please help!

7. "Big Brother" originally is a figure of an overly-controlling-surveilling and -heavyly- repressional system in Orwell's "1984". Nothing attractive about it, all the contrary.
Though the idea of a TV show showcasing the experiment of putting together a sample of the society of the country in which it is broadcasted and watch their living together, organising themselves in a somehow different evironment to which they are used to would be interesting to me. An experiment of this kind, if carried in a scientific way (will get there in a second), would be, according to me, very interesting to watch and could even lead to raise people's awareness, on top of the entertaining potential. Let me now explain what I mean about scientific and how the same concept could become less questionable to me and even become potentially a source of learning. Here would be my criteria for a watchable BB:
a) a real sample of the population. We are talking mixed gender, sexual preferences and age, we are talking diverse socio-professional classes, we are talking diversity in terms of ethnicity, alternative values, religions, political preferences and perspectives.
b) this sample of population would have to face real life situations (not silly challenges) and would have enough freedom to act to actually decide themselves for their own ways of survival. It would be really interesting to see a sample of society being offered the possibility to create a different society than the one they experience in "real" life and organise themselves in order to go through the experiment of seclusion and limited access to the outside.
c) I would want to watch a programme that would be showing debates about anything we are facing as a community/society by people who can use their own experience to discuss those topics and bring some light on what could be very diverse perspectives and therefore offer what most of us - in the audience - might not be exposed to.
These debates would be interesting even more if they could be followed up (as they would be genuine and representative of the population in the UK) by mayors or PMs or anyone in charge politically. These debates could be the base for either clarifying and or raising more interest in many of the the topics at stake at the moment in the country.

8. I actually don't have a point 8. Just wanted to reming you that I was into those sections to express my amazement at the new series of BB starting, again... before I got to my conclusion. Conclusion just here below! You've got so far? You should carry on because there is not much til the end (I promise!).

I won't be watching BB 2008. Shouldn't be a surprise to you if you read he whole thing til here (bless you). If you are in shock at this point, really you should be checking into any kind of rehab facility or get a job in the next "Cuckoo's nest" musical (and if you really thought there was such musical around you should call NOW for an ambulance). If not so carry on reading (still doesn't mean that that you are mentally fit - let's admit that you reading me til this word is definitely not getting you points in a sanity test...).
So, let's get it together again: I won't be watching BB2008. Easy for me as I don't have a TV you would say. Still even so. I am appalled by the way the concept is being used and also by the contestants that have been selected in the previous versions but specially those I have seen getting "inside" last night.

Come on! Yes they might be components of the UK. yes they might be real and truthful to what they are or have been so far... But to me they are a special sample of what is not really what I am experiencing every day or what surrounds me. I agreee that we al live in microcosms that give an image of what is very much like ourserves only. I might only be socialising with people in my age and professional register, similar education level and earning but I am living in this world, namely London and I meet therefore many different people and also get to socialise with people who are not exactly like me. Still I don't think that anyone around me would include in their social circle the whole cast of BB 2008. That is why I call it a fake, stupid, meaningless programme.
Still I would be happy to change my mind of I was to be hearing about anyone being able to prove that the BB sample is actually somethong he or she believes to be, not the "girl next door" but, the "environment next door".

I am really and sincerely waiting for you to prove me wrong. If not I will keep on thinking that I am right about it all ankd that I know it all.
This is your opportunity, please don't miss it or I might get into politics.......

Shortest blog ever I guess...

It sucks... I feel really frustrated as no one seems to be reading my posts ever.
So here it is: I am really boring!

All right, got and going to bed now... And if nothing tomorrow, well I'll stay in bed forever! Yup!

bye babies