Love Island is back for its eleventh series, and the men and women were forced to rank each other within the first half hour. Here's why that's a problematic idea. Read more on Grazia.
Lots of people have plenty to say about the boys reasons for someone being 'girlfriend material' compared to the girls...The first episode of Love Island is always a fairly excruciating watch. A group of 20-something-year-old strangers arrive at the villa in their shorts and bikinis, move in together and have to start flirting on straight away. And it's all on national television., and we know how it works.
While the girls avoided making personal remarks, given that they’d only just met, the boys exposed their thinking straight away. Welsh boy Ciaran Davies immediately said, ‘Welsh girls are wifey as f**k’, whatever that means, and Sam Taylor judged Harriet Blackmore for only breaking up with her ex-boyfriend four months ago – using that as a reason to put her lower in the rankings.
It seems unnecessary to put any islander – male or female – in a position where they feel vulnerable and pitted against their peers that quickly into the show. Although Love Island has taken steps in the past few years to make the opening episode fairer and less misogynistic, it seems there is still a long way to go.
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