Big Brother BS
by sylvia
Last night was the premiere of Season 11 (really, 11?) of Big Brother. I never watched this show prior to meeting the hubs, but you know when you’re dating, you do shit you wouldn’t normally do, to give your significant other reasons to stick around!
I’m such a giver.
Turns out I enjoyed the show, and got WAAAAAY too into it. At first I thought it was just a late-season “Real World” where they were just locked in for months and drank and slept with each other, vs. being able to leave the house and go to bars and drink and sleep with each other.
If you are not familar with the show, it’s slightly more than that. I actually got addicted to the strategy that was involved, as it wasn’t just physical competitions or eating challenges. Alliances and enemies, etc. – I really got wrapped up in it. And then it started sucking again. I’m not even sure I made it through the whole of last season.
But I pushed through, and watched the first episode last night. The theme of this season – High School Cliques.
Yeah, total BS. Who wants to revisit that shit again? You’ve got The Brains (nerds), The Athletes (jocks), The Popular (popular) and The OffBeats (weirdos).
I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t a big fan of high school. Before I moved to “the big city” when I was 15, I went to a high school in a small town where you could see the defining lines of the cliques from any distance. We had all of the above cliques, plus the added Grit clique, which were the peeps that went to Vo-Tech and listened to Heavy Metal.
You wouldn’t dare talk to anyone outside of your clique, and the only reason the popular kids or jocks talked to you was if they wanted to copy your homework.
I’ll give you one guess which clique I belonged to.
So when they revealed this “twist” last night, some houseguests were super stoked. I believe one of The Popular actually said “some of the best years of my life were spent in high school.” Yeah, I already hate him.
I’ll probably continue watching. At least it gives me something to despise. Well, something more to despise.
So, is anyone out there watching it besides me?
I actually find the statement “Some of the best years of my life were in high school” to be profoundly sad. School is 12 years of your life, and if those are the best, the other 60 some odd are really going to drag on for you. I finished reading Friday Night Lights, and you could see the life this kind of attitude fosters, where people feel hopeless and lost without that concentrated social environment to prop them up.