Last night I watched TV with my mother
Dec. 21st, 2017 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyWe saw an episode of Divided, which I think is possibly the cruelest game show I've ever seen, but it has potential to be hilarious. It never gets old watching three strangers squabble over how to divide up a $90 dollar pot, and all the while the timer is running down and the money with it. Edit: To be clear, they must divide it up 60/30/10. They may not divide it up evenly.
Anyway, yesterday the four contestants can be summed up as: White woman (she's the one who got voted off), guy-in-suit, black woman, nerdy guy. Guy-in-suit was super obnoxious (at one point, he condescended to white woman, causing black woman to jump in and defend her in no uncertain terms), but they racked up quite a sizeable potential win.
And now it's time to divide it up, 60/30/10. As is typical, each player thinks they deserve the biggest share - and now both the men turn around and try to convince black woman (white woman having been kicked off) that she should take the smallest share. "After all, it's still a lot of money, better than getting nothing!"
After hearing half a minute of their smarmy bullshit on this (meanwhile, neither of them noticed, btw, that they both were giving themselves the large share, because "after all, better than getting nothing" doesn't apply to either of them), she gave up. She folded her arms and stood there and let the clock run down, and she was so in the right.
It must be a year or more since that episode was filmed, and to this day, I doubt either of the two male contestants understand that they were the reason she made that choice. But they were the reason. They were such jerks by the end that she was happy to let them walk away with nothing, and she was right to do so. I would've made the exact same choice. (Then again, I would've voted off guy-in-the-suit. The woman who was voted off said he wouldn't want to compromise at the end, and boy, she called it.)
There is some sort of feminist moral here, but I'm not sure how to sum it up.
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Anyway, yesterday the four contestants can be summed up as: White woman (she's the one who got voted off), guy-in-suit, black woman, nerdy guy. Guy-in-suit was super obnoxious (at one point, he condescended to white woman, causing black woman to jump in and defend her in no uncertain terms), but they racked up quite a sizeable potential win.
And now it's time to divide it up, 60/30/10. As is typical, each player thinks they deserve the biggest share - and now both the men turn around and try to convince black woman (white woman having been kicked off) that she should take the smallest share. "After all, it's still a lot of money, better than getting nothing!"
After hearing half a minute of their smarmy bullshit on this (meanwhile, neither of them noticed, btw, that they both were giving themselves the large share, because "after all, better than getting nothing" doesn't apply to either of them), she gave up. She folded her arms and stood there and let the clock run down, and she was so in the right.
It must be a year or more since that episode was filmed, and to this day, I doubt either of the two male contestants understand that they were the reason she made that choice. But they were the reason. They were such jerks by the end that she was happy to let them walk away with nothing, and she was right to do so. I would've made the exact same choice. (Then again, I would've voted off guy-in-the-suit. The woman who was voted off said he wouldn't want to compromise at the end, and boy, she called it.)
There is some sort of feminist moral here, but I'm not sure how to sum it up.
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