AIBU to think that Miss Great Britain didn't deserve to be stripped of her title

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Ok so I'm not one for beauty pageants or anything but the current Miss Great Britain (or should I now say former) is a contestant on ITV2 Love Island. She's had sex with a fellow contestant and now Miss Great Britain have stripped her of her title because of it.
I think it's an awful example of slut shaming in this day and age and a bad example to send to women everywhere that if they have sex they are punished.

I don't agree that she was right to have sex on tv but all the men are given a pat on the back while the women are shamed.
What are your thoughts?

No, I would think exactly the same of the man who was part of this coupling on national television.

No double standards here, shagging on national television is utterly cheap, and says everything about the people engaging in it. And none of it positive.

Yes, any employer would likely sack an employee for appearing on such a programme. Added to that, if you were employing someone and it came to your attention they had had sex on national television there's a good chance they wouldn't be employable after that, not by anywhere reputable anyway.

But I'm still as to who actually watches this shite. And why.

The issue for me is that she was happy to enter and sign those terms and conditions. Which I think is very sad in the first place.

She wants publicity and doesn't want to stick to her contract. That's her choice but there are consequences.

That said I hate 'miss world' etc anyway. But she signed up for knowing full well what her obligations were. I do bet though that 'MR BG' wouldn't have the same T&Cs.

As a pp said why is anyone surprised a sexist contest has sexist T&Cs. And why be surprised if you sign up to enter said sexist competition?

Thanks Anchor, I think they should have stuck by their original statement but obviously they haven't.

Rufus... Weeeellll, your DC weren't technically lying because you don't actually see sex on the tv, just er... energetic blankets on the bed that leap up and down of their own volition...

I've being on tv and have got well paid for it but it's a job .......I doubt the girl I knew or this pagent person class themselves as sex workers but weren't both of them on tv purely because they were prepared to have sex on screen rather than for any other talent they have ? How are they not sex workers?

A sex worker and someone appearing on a reality TV show are two different things to me.

I dunno how love island works but if it's like big brother and all that, they are paid to appear on the show, they are not paid on the condition they will have sex with someone. They may have gone in to the show planning to have sex, they may have just met someone they liked on the show, they may have just felt like a bit, if they didn't have sex, they'd still have been paid because that's not what their job is. A sex worker would not get paid if they turned up on set and didn't have sex.

What about sex in Movies? Would the actors in 50 shades etc also be sex workers? I know they don't have piv in movies but there's the nudity, kissing and fondling etc, if the lead in movies that feature sex, didn't agree to the sexual parts she and he wouldn't get the role, so they'd also be sex workers?

I dunno, if people are ok with watching people on TV and movies pretend to have real sex, (it's often the selling point of a lot of TV and movies) why the negativity about someone having consensual sex while being on a show? It does seem like the female often gets the bulk of the criticism too.

Fwiw I don't like sex in most shows and movies, it often adds nothing to the plot, and I dunno if it's me getting older but it feels like films that would have been at least a 15 when I was younger are now a 12, but if being shown having sex in TV makes someone an unsuitable role model then how come it doesn't apply to those being paid millions for it in Hollywood? They are not stopped from representing charities for being naked and fooling around on screen.

The way she handled the situation showed a huge amount of dignity
There is no dignity in shagging a relative stranger on national television, just to increase your profile, no matter what way it's handled afterwards.
She wants her 15 minutes of fame any way she can.

There's nothing slut shaming about thinking having sex on national television is cheap, and that anyone who does should have more bloody self respect.

Amen to that. There's a huge difference in women/men/whoever being raised to know that sex is not 'dirty' and to being brought up in a society where shagging anyone you've known five minutes is entirely normal and indeed 'fashionable' (let alone on national TV).

If that makes me an old prude, I'm fine with that.

Last year very few of them had sex and they really didn't show as much. This year has been very graphic and unfortunately Zara's was the most graphic, they gave the impression that she was actually him a blow job and then when she laid down next to him they filmed her smiling and licking her teeth. It was pretty grim, as far as I can tell they had sex later which wasn't shown.

I have to say from what was shown by the program I'm not surprised the Miss GB organisation want to distance themselves from her.

However I feel that love island is actually at fault here, they know very well how that will have come across and chose to broadcast it in the way they did. If it hadn't have been so graphic she may not have been stripped of her title.

P.s I wouldn't want anyone under the age of 17 watching this ! It's a terrible example to children

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I agree!!!! Ds1 had only seen the first episode so maybe that one was ok and they just kept watching

No excuse though

Good try lying but ds1 has watched Geordie shore where the blankets have a life of their own so i did use that as a comparison

Shame....i was quite fond of them

Do agree regarding double standards....does anyone know what is in the small print of the pageant contract?

Some of you asking about younger people watching,

in bed the blankets have a life of there own, they don't show full on sex but you know what's happening under the duvet.

I think another problem I would have with younger people watching ( god I sound like my mum) is that after miss gb had had sex some of the girls were very nasty behind her back slut shaming but the men thought the guy was the man because he'd had sex. I don't think it's good for younger people to see on tv that is ok to shame a woman for having sex but a man is God for having sex.

Two rubbish programmes, one desperate attention seeker. But yes, it's sexist.

Actually I remember a Miss GB scandal from years ago - the Welsh winner was found to have had a baby! Shock horror.

It is all trashy, low level, self-humiliation in the name of the empty, talentless celebrity-culture so many admire: beauty contests, Love Island, Big Brother, Kardashions etc. They deserve anything they get imho. Never watch any of it. Should all be banned.

DD is 19 and good friends with one of the shows contestants ( not miss GB)

I'll be glad when it's over and they are out and everything goes back to normal. Not seen tonight's show. Does Zara know yet?

YABU it's the rules of the contest (as ridiculous as they may be).

Winner of misogynistic competition is stripped of her title because she acts in a way that doesn't conform to the sexist, outdated rules of said misogynist competition.

This!

She agreed to be part of the sexist competition with its outdated rules and is happy to take whatever positives there are. She has to take the negatives too.

To be honest the publicity of being stripped of the Miss GB title will probably enhance her reality 'career'.

To be honest the publicity of being stripped of the Miss GB title will probably enhance her reality 'career'. She's probably clapping her hands in glee. All publicity is good publicity.