Big Brother: A Lesson in How Not to Behave

With a lot of reality shows on, most of them teach you how you shouldn’t behave as most of them are about people who they want to cause conflict to make for great TV. I believe that this is a part of every reality show and not just the competition ones. Today, I am talking about just the show Big Brother specifically since the others are not relevant. I could do a post on Survivor in my Survivor blog, but I won’t this time yet.

 

There has been a lot of controversy caused by Big Brother over the years and contestants’ treatment of other contestants has been one of the consistent problems. They’ve even had to expel some players from the game because of that at times in very serious issues with how others are treated. This does not account for all of the expulsions thus far, but maybe around half if not three out of four.

 

What exactly are the issues? Well, people aren’t always nice, which is to be expected in most of the reality shows as stated already. But it is more than simply not being nice that causes issues. They can be bullies or have too many conflicts with other, specific players. There have been racial slurs used and some sexist ones as well. Basically, any type of discrimination has probably come up at least once on the show at some point in time.

 

I don’t want to go as far as repeating what some of the truly egregious things on the show are since that would give these people the infamy they so desperately want for some reason. Just know that there are even issues that the players do with bad behavior even without some of the absolute worse stuff.

 

People may have to lie a lot on the show in order to get what they want. They use other players as pawns, puppets, or however horrible they want to. Some have started relationships on the show even though they were in one before they started the game. Not being nice doesn’t have to be part of the game in the end. Players can be good people without having to sacrifice their chance of making it far or even winning the game in the end.

 

The point is, people who have done Big Brother have acted badly a lot throughout the game. The show will always deal with issues like this, even when they aren’t too controversial in the end. It is a lesson in how not to behave most of the time. And I would hope that people know this.