The low percentage in the elimination of Gabriel Fop shows which values are priorities for most Brazilians
Yesterday, participant Gabriel Fop left Brazil’s most guarded house into a wall where he confronted nurse Cezar Black and Miss Germany Domitilla Barros. For many, like me, the result was obvious, however, as time went on, it became clear that there was a massive surge of people defending their brother and wanting the elimination of Domitilla, who is a black woman.
It may seem like an exaggeration, but it’s not! It wasn’t just a wall between a white man and a black woman. It’s not about that. Indeed it was, but not in the foreground. I say this because, in addition to social issues, we have had the behavior of the participants within the program. She with some attitudes that can displease people, but without hurting strata of society and he who, in addition to various questionable behaviors, still had behaviors that, indirectly or otherwise, affect a large part of the Brazilian population.
What he did with Bruna Griphao during childbirth has already been talked about a thousand times, even by the show’s host. And I’m glad it was! However, the problems involving Gabriel didn’t stop there. Just yesterday, before his elimination, he chose participant Bruno Gaga to, perhaps, be the recipient of his frustrations, fears and insecurities. In a very short time he compared Bruno’s hair to the lawn at home, and the day before he had already made this comparison, calling his hair hard, he compared Gaga to Garfield, according to him, for being so fat and, finally, after Bruno found a loose object in the pool, Fop asked, “Can you handle something that big?”.
Domitilla is, by far, not a participant I like. Not only for shifting the game a bit, but also the way she talks, especially with Cezar Black. This bothers me. Nothing against a tease, I like it too, but using it together with indifference while the other tries to resolve with you so that the group game can flow better, it particularly annoys me. But not all the hard feelings I might have towards her would cause me to ignore the things her direct opponent did on that wall. I say this because she had 46%, Gabriel 53% and Cezar even reached 1% of voting intentions.
And then there’s the issue of race and gender. How can a black woman be voted as a preference to, in the opinion of some, be annoying, given that a white standard can hurt several minorities and a large part of the public sees this as a less serious thing? You understand? For example, there are people who think that being boring is worse than fat phobia, sexism, etc. It is very uncomfortable to see how society’s values are distorted and one cannot dissociate this from the 58,206,354 votes that the former president of Brazil received. I also understand that for some it may seem exaggerated, but I don’t think of anyone who thinks it’s worth keeping a guy in prime time by spreading attitudes that hurt a good part of the population.
With that, I’m not saying you have to write off the guy, anything like that. Nor do I mean to insinuate that he, as an individual, is the cause of all social ills. The problem is structural and structuring and it is just another one that gets absorbed by these mistaken ideals. Not even if he came out with 100% of the vote would he change the fact that our society is racist, sexist and classist. It is very dangerous to try to summarize all the problems on one person, as it gives the wrong feeling that punishing him will change things, and that will not happen. The change is structural! Changing how we see society will change who gets into reality TV, not the other way around.
All of the above has already been proven in past BBBs, where participants with similar behaviors won the prize, but we will see even more confirmations during this edition of the program. We are likely to see people like Dr. Fred Nicácio and Domitilla herself get busted with rejection for acts that don’t even compare to Gabriel’s. It’s also very hopeful, or naïve, of me to think that a gay black man and a black woman get equal empathy from the white, straight, cis male audience. Blacks, to be accepted in Brazil, must be submissive. Anything that deviates from this causes astonishment and then disgust, and the mass media are demonstrating it on a daily basis.
Source: Terra
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