The Traitors is both racist & ageist?

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I’ve been saying this for some time, and now the Times has analyzed the data.

Are The Traitors players prejudiced? Here’s what the data says:

https://www.thetimes.com/article/20eccb12-a919-4d59-8ce5-1e9925f9e948?shareToken=3e4f0566057b480a152802f21f97c26c

Spoiler alert - all white winners and just one non white person in the finals of the UK general traitors show.

YABU - It’s an evidence based show. Nothing to see here.
YANBU - The players are displaying unconscious bias against race, sex & age

I think there is a lot of internalised misogyny too. The way Rachel has been called a psychopath, ruthless, hard faced on here while Stephen: nada.This is a woman's site so I can only imagine the general hate on the net for a woman who just played the game.

On another thread I linked a Guardian review, which called her a dozen versions of manipulative, but Stephen is sweet!

Also who could miss Faraaz calling Rachel a granny several times? Seemed like an in joke between them, but still unnecessary.

I think like all reality shows, the traitors is a reflection of society. In my opinion it mirrors the workplace, the playground and other social areas of life.

I have noticed that non-white players have an unfair advantage- they are often misunderstood and it doesn’t work in their favour.

Older players are also misunderstood, and are often classed as sweet and the mother hen but their opinions don’t carry weight for whatever reason.

Also, Jesse (who had the stammer) constantly expressing her opinions (and being correct) and everyone around her agreeing to her face and dismissing it, every single time - despite “loving her so much”.

It’s all a reflection of real life really. Even if it is just a game show.

But the craziest lesson is that as long as you look the part, you can tell all the lies in the world, and people will believe you. But if you don’t fit in and tell the truth - good luck.

And also playing dumb gets you far - Faraaz is non white and I think his obliviousness got him that far (and I guess being friends with the right people - the traitors).

Jack isn't gay, or not publicly anyway. He's on record talking about using any prize money "as a deposit for a property for me and my girlfriend".

You're probably just making assumptions based on some of his less conventional personal grooming choices, but basically he's a personal trainer from Essex!

…..So they should include some non-British white people.

I think it's great that it shows unconscious bias and has people talking about it and all sorts of other things.

I thought that when I started watching this last series. I definitely picked up on the ageism and it’s a fact that most human beings display unconscious bias. That’s why we undergo unconscious bias training for interviews etc.

It could also be conscious bias. There is plenty of that about as well.

I think that the older women ( the older male was in his element) showed their exasperation when they’d worked something out (or believed they had) and their views were ignored. And that went against them with the rest.
The 30 something men were just less involved or appeared that way -ie come to think of it perhaps expectations were that women would be more empathetic but got voted out if they didn’t appear so.
Jade got so much flak for not really doing anything wrong.