Season 24

The following comment will not only include spoilers but also my opinion(s) on issues like racism, sexism and ageism so please don't read if you have not watched this season or are easily triggered by these subjects -

It's truly amazing how quickly people are prepared to embrace, and even encourage, racism when it is directed at white people. Julie Chen literally calls the cookout, an aliiance formed based on skin color and with the sole objective of voting out anyone (including other POC) that was not the same skin color as themselves, "the greatest alliance ever formed on BB". Not one mention of how racism should not be accepted or celebarted in any form.

Kyle, a white guy, is called a racist because he saw what the cookout did and was paranoid when he started to see the black contestants (and 1 other POC I believe) hanging out with one another and thought they may be forming a "cookout 2.0" which was a wrong assumption but by no means was it racist or even far fetched (it literally happened the season before!!) so he tried to rally the white contestants to counter the move, which is suddenly racism despite the fact the cookout did it and it was the greatest alliance ever formed when they did it?!?

The amount of racism, sexism and even ageism taking place in the past 2 seasons, including how BB and CBS, a show/network that literally under represented POC's in the past but tipped the scale in season 23 in a blatant move to take advantage of the social climate at the time (on the tail of George Floyd & BLM) and not only garner high ratings but right a wrong from seasons past (I have no clue if they were racist themselves or POC's just weren't applying for the show as much as white people were, I feel it was the former though) by trying to get a POC to win.

Why was there not a house meeting or even a word said when the men discussed forming an alliance (which would be sexism) when they got paranoid about the women forming one against them (which they literally were talking about and is also sexism). Can you imagine if the men were called misogynists for being paranoid the women had formed an alliance based on their gender against them? and not the women for forming the alliance to start with?!

Although there wasn't any blatant ageism (to my recollection) that still doesn't take anything away from the fact Terrance was the only elderly contestant on the show, constantly seemed to be a target but no real decent reasoning for it was given and knew himself that he didn't quite fit in with the younger crowd and spoke about it on numerous occasions. Despite being part of the house meeting and talking down to Kyle Terrance at least seemed the most open minded and I think was the only contestant the entire season that said he didn't want to form alliances, or vote people out, based on race gender age etc.

I understand BB was made to basically expose these types of things and see how a group of people from different areas of the country and different walks of life would get along when put in a house for weeks at a time without outside contact (no phone, no tv, no news etc) but when BB starts to manipulate the outcome and profit off the racism/sexism/ageism/bigotry that is when it begins to say more about the show, and network, than it does about the contestants themselves. At the very least don't celebrate racism as though it's a good thing. Talk about what is happening and how it shouldn;t be acceptable as they have done in the past if I recall correctly.

I won't be watching BB any longer. Not because of the Isms I wrote about, I am well aware they exist in the world and we as a society still have a long way to go to resolve them, but because I feel like BB/CBS are weaponizing them for ratings and profit and don't want to support that sort of thing.