Wow

[goKi]

I don't watch the show, but apparantely two housemates on the "Big Brother" TV series in Australia got removed from the house for holding down a female housemate, and one of the guys slapping her in the face with his penis. All of the major sites including fan sites that cover the show are closed so people can't discuss it online (wtf is with that, anyway). The coolest thing that ever happens on the show, and they throw the people out for it.



Big Brother Housemates Ashley and John were escorted from the House on Saturday afternoon following a breach of the rules. The producers Endemol Southern Star and Network Ten deemed their actions were grounds for their removal from the show. The producers will not be commenting any further on this serious matter.

In a joint statement made shortly after they left the House, Ashley and John said: "We had a great time in the house. It is unfortunate it had to end this way, but Big Brother has rules and regulations and we broke them.

“We are all very close in the house and we would never do anything to offend our fellow housemates."

Is this taking censorship too far? Thoughts?

[{DSG}DarkRaven]

I think that censorship in this case is probably in the best interest of the girl who got it in the face. Eek.

Really though, this is exactly the sort of thing that censorship is for. Is it really necessary for the whole country, and or world to know that this poor girl got sexually assaulted, in the face, by a particular person and his particular genitals? It's embarassing. Would you want to show your face in public after there was a press release detailing the particulars of how you got wang whacked?

[goKi]

http://www.behindbigbrother.com/

I disagree, Darkraven. Idiots like her basically go on that show to be degraded.

[koopa]

Did the "girl" in question agree to this - in other words, was it just a stupid stunt? Sounds like it wasn't. In that case I suppose it legally counts as sexual assault or something like that, and the producers would be forced to intervene or face getting sued. After all, the law still applies in the big brother house, and I'd imagine slapping someone in the face with your dick without their consent is illegal in Australia too.

I take your point that you go on BB because 1) you're a complete idiot and 2) you want the country to laugh at you. Probably half the viewers tune in hoping to see some sex anyway, when they ran the show in Switzerland a year ago two of them had sex on the toilet and the pictures were all over the papers. That's what BB is about, in a way.

I think it was right to censor he scene though, as it's legally most certainly NOT ok what they did. (Unless it was with her consent, in which case all of them are just dickheads ... pardon the pun).

As far as I'm concerned they could just take the whole f***ing show away, I don't / didn't really watch it, I don't need that kind of reminder how stupid humans can get.

[Darth Marsden]

Here's the complete rundown. (http://www.behindbigbrother.com/showarticle.php?articleID=936)

I don't watch Big Brother, and nor will I - it's just people willing to do anything to get on TV, and that's not the sort of thing I call entertainment. But even so, this incident was just way too far and they were right to be kicked out and censored.

[Glitch]

lol she got wangslapped.

[goKi]

lol she got wangslapped.

Exactly! I can imagine police intervention at some drunken party from now on.

[koopa]

Well, if the party is broadcast on television to half the country I suppose you can. In way though, however wrong it was I personally think it serves her right for going on big brother. But from the point of the television company it seems right to censor it, although I'm sure they're pleased with all the publicity this event is making. After all, if you censor something the chances are higher that everyone will look at it.

[{DSG}DarkRaven]

I disagree, Darkraven. Idiots like her basically go on that show to be degraded.

I'm not disagreeing with that at all, Goki. But that degredation is, for the most part, under her control. She makes a fool of her self under her own free will. I'm not entirely certain she found it funny, nor do I think she had any part in planning the event. She did not make a fool of herself, but was rather made a fool of by someone else, which is the distinction I'm trying to make.

Consider if she had been raped. Would you say that it was her fault for moving into a TV house with strangers? That she deserved to be degraded? Where lies the difference between this and what really happened? Is the real event okay simply because it's funny? Because it didn't hurt her? Because somehow, getting smacked with a scrotum in the face is less violating?

[Lilith]

Haha guys, um that's sexual assualt. It's not as heavy as rape, but if the guy had something like herp on his dick she'd get it on her face. Not only that, pretty psychologically humiliating, pubically. It's assualt. On tv. I'm sure she was retarded, but I don't understand the mentality of how being stupid automatically deserves sexual assualt.

[goKi]

Every TV network and radio show in the country has been making turkey slap jokes, the Prime Minister of Australia is calling for that trash to be axed. and BB's TV ratings have skyrocketed.

[Sam Atoms]

I can just imagine what the Big Brother producers are thinking.

"You sick perverts *nod-nod*, get off our show! *wink-wink*."

[goKi]

Exactly, the show was created for things like this to happen.