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Chris is A Big Loser
Friday, April 27th, 2007: Read more at The Daily Choof
Just to let you know that Chris, the cunt who came onto the show as an ‘outsider’, has just won the title of The Biggest Loser - Australia - 2007.
I assume all of you are probably too smart to subject yourselves to the fucking shit which is The Biggest Loser. Well, it’s a show produced by FremantleMedia, which basically owns every fucking show you watch. They even do The Bill. Fucking hell. That’s why the show’s so fucking shit. Anyway, on this show overweight contestants go to this ‘White House’ (btw this show is so fucking American), and train their arses off until they get angry and vote their fellow contestants off.
Anybody who wants to study the psychology of outer suburban nimwits should make Loser compulsory viewing. For all of its false hopes, Loser conveys a startling message: you have to be a prick to be successful (in that not getting voted out, rather than losing weight, is the aim of the game), and that young middle-class men obviously do better than women and older men. Even though crazy Marty with his big fat smile, a typical middle-aged bloke from Queensland couldn’t beat Chris, he was the people’s choice siply because he had personality. Chris was declared the Loser because the ruling elite want to portray this fucker, who has less emotional ability than a used calculator, to be a model citizen. Somebody who shuts up and competes. My attraction to the show came because I felt a bond with the other contestants but Chris was such a wanker. Even when Damien (who was a contestant who was a musician; yes there are talented people who sometimes pop up on these shows) was singing at the end and tried to do a duet of a popular song with Chris he wouldn’t join in. And this is the shit we need to live with for the next year on television adverts regarding weight loss, although when you start watching Loser it’s apparent that the show is about everything except weight loss.
As much as I hate Chris, it’s important to note this hatred is due to first impressions being beamed onto television screens by FremantleMedia. “Buddy27″ on the show’s web forum noted:
“Chris’s portrayed first impression was “right… my eye is on the prize” and there seems to be an unwritten rule in this show that for you to justly win this game - in the eye of the viewing public, you have to be not doing it for the money, have a hard luck story and cry a LOT.”
(http://forums.thebiggestloser.com.au/forums/5/115848/ShowThread.aspx)
The fact is that the show is all about impressions. While the men compete against the women, they are portrayed as having different qualities relevant to their sex. The blokes are supposed to be hard, mean and competetive, while the sheilas were meant to be soft, bitchy, collaborative. Yet the sexes compete against each other, with the masculine sex always coming on top. This is nothing more than blatant sexism in a supposedly equal opportunity society; so girls, you are free to compete against the boys just as long as you don’t stifle the capitalist’s attempts to make the fellas win. As for the non-contestants, host AJ is a blonde bimbo with an age and IQ bracket in the mid-20s, while trainers Shannan and ‘the Commando’ are exemplify traditional tough-love manhood. Trainer Michelle is another image what the capitalists want us to be;thin and with a face so ugly it needs heaps of makeup. The thing with Loser and other reality shows, and even commerical blogging spaces like mysapce are all examples of capitalist exploitation in the information age. It defies the bourgois view that ‘history has ended’ and that we now live in some la-la land where we all get along. Because we fucking don’t. And the sooner we all stop believing in the pathetic lies capitalism throws at us the better.
They all have their own reasons for being on the show, but the fact is that two things make people fat slobs; eating a shitload of Maccas and having a sedentary lifestyle (no, not one in the bush smoking hash but watching stupid shows like Loser). It is here we must find what the real reason behind the show is. Are we witnessing the capitalist exploiters actually giving us a way to break free from their fast food consumerism and become free-thinking people for godsake? I think not. Is it an effort by a self-destructing society to heal ills, just like companies are supposed to be reversing the effects of global warming? I doubt it. Is it an effort to reduce consumerism by warning against excessive Quarter Pounder intake? Fuck no. The show is nothing more than a ‘circus’ of capitalist exploitation aimed at winning the hearts and minds of the proletariat in the outer suburbs whose lives are at the mercy of the bourgoise, who through their agents, AJ, Shannan, Michelle and the Commando, exploit a bunch of unsuspecting victims in their ravenous search for profit.
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