Here's a perfect example of a news story that doesn't need any commentary.
After being made to pluck pheasants and being sprayed with sour milk, feminist icon Germaine Greer has had enough and has walked out of the British TV reality show, Big Brother.
Greer, who reportedly appeared on the show in order to save her rainforest, protested about the bullying of some of the other contestants, including former wife of Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen.
Greer becomes perhaps the first losing reality show contestant in the short history of the much-loved TV genre who intends to "look into the epidemiology of bullying" in the wake of her defeat.
Interviewed after her decision to leave the show, Greer seemed to compare the treatment meted out on Big Brother to the Holocaust:
Persecution is what happens, holocausts are what happens when good people do nothing.[But] I am an anarchist, we can disrupt situations, we don't take them over."
Maybe she should get in touch with the Japanese kid who burst all the yellow balloons at his Coming of Age Ceremony. Think of the disruption that pair could muster.
Guardian Unlimited: Greer walks out of 'bullying' Big Brother
Posted by Setsunai at January 12, 2005 3:53 PM | TrackBack