Nothing like a dose of good, ol’ fashioned misogyny to pepper your reality TV viewing pleasure in 2022, right?
In a sign precisely nothing has changed with the young men of the Love Island villa, I can confirm this year’s male cohort have been pretty good at showing us they subscribe to the icky dirtbag behaviour oh so prevalent in our society.
‘It’s not that deep, Mel!’ I hear you say, as you switch over to ITV2 at 9pm every night.
It is that deep, I reply, as I, too, switch on for another night of admittedly obsessive viewing, because the way these lads have behaved after their apparent paramours packed up and headed off to Casa Amor has been downright disgusting.
The slut-shaming is palpable; the misogyny is real.
Let’s dial it back a little to give you a little context, should you be behind the firepit shenanigans.
You see, only a couple of weeks ago Tasha Ghouri became public enemy number one in the villa when she dared to admit on a dating show, of all places, she was open to getting to know hotshot newcomer Charlie Radnedge.
The s**t hit the proverbial when she began to question her feelings for not-boyfriend Andrew Le Page, a man the general public decided she should couple up with in week one. That was after she and Luca Bish explored the possibility of romance. Which is what these crazy kids do in this wild villa.
Andrew was clearly enamoured with the model and in the face of her being a typical twenty-something woman and sharing her mind-confusion at the situation, the boys painted her to be a total harlot, a Scarlett woman of capital A proportions, exchanging slimy side-eyes and grimaces around the fire pit when she shared her feelings for Andrew.
This alone was painful to watch, but it came after Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu had faced the wrath of the gatekeeping boys when she crawled out onto the terrace to kiss Jay while still coupled up with Davide Sanclimenti.
While the crawling and creeping might not have been the best move, her actions pale in comparison to the way the boys have behaved this week.
Fast forward to now and we’re seeing the lads on proverbial – no, literal, I’m calling such dramatics – heat at the sight of six new women amid the Casa Amor twist and have forgotten all modes of basic integrity.
The fake tan fumes hadn’t even evaporated from the powder room, for Pete’s sake, when the boys got in Andrew’s ear and insisted he had been made a ‘mug’ of, like Tasha was some scheming potter who never liked the real estate agent with a penchant for nightclub threesomes in the first place.
And with that, he lodged his tongue down Coco Lodge’s gullet like he’d just read a Cosmo headline encouraging him that ‘the only way to get over someone is to get under someone else’.
He was exclaiming ‘Tasha who?’ like Thanos had snapped her to dust, showing more loyalty to a bunch of lads who have it in their best interest to sabotage any potentially strong couples to reach that £50,000 prize money, all the while Tasha was sharing her guilt at kissing Billy Brown in Casa Amor even though he just brought out the ‘fun and sassy’ side of her, goddammit.
Luca has been sleeping on the day bed, sure, but between him, Jacques ‘skidmark-or-no-skidmark’ O’Neill, and Dami Hope, they’ve encouraged Andrew to go above and beyond what Tasha ever did, suggesting she deserves such treatment due to her pearl-clutching indiscretion of having a conversation in a hot tub.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video
But it’s not just Andrew exhibiting such shoddy behaviour.
After egging him on to cast Tasha aside for the crime of chatting in a hot tub and wondering whether she had feelings for someone else (she didn’t), Dami has also forgotten about Indiyah Polack, moving on with Summer Botwe at warp speed, while ol’ mate Jacques felt the right way to make sure he actually liked Paige Thorne was to make out with Cheyanne Kerr (don’t even get me started on the degrading and ‘negging’ language he employed in his efforts to charm her), and lest we forget Davide made out with multiple women in one night in his quest to ‘test’ his relationship with Ekin-Su, after his dramatic ‘liiiii-yarrrrr’ speech when she kissed Jay, all while Luca – previously eye-rollingly disgusted by Tasha and Ekin-Su’s non-actions – salivated in the corner as the £50K got closer to his grasp.
‘If she sticks on me how do I know she won’t just stick it on any guy’ – the Love Island lads’ double standards
I can’t blame producers for this. What we’re watching is simply a group of young men who thrive in a society in which double standards towards women, especially in the dating world, run rampant.
It doesn’t bode well in last year’s series we saw Liam Reardon make out with Lillie Haynes in Casa Amor, return to the villa and win Millie Court back before going on to win the whole series.
Dirtbag behaviour is rewarded in this backward world, but if the events of today in Downing Street have shown me anything, it’s that the tide does finally turn. Yes, I just compared Casa Amor to Westminster.
While I concede this series twist makes for great television, the lack of respect these boys have for the women they were sharing beds with only a week ago has made me weep for the world.
One thing’s for sure and that’s come Movie Night hell hath no fury like a Love Island woman scorned – I’ve got my popcorn ready for Ekin-Su’s wrath.
Do you have a story you’d like to share? Get in touch by emailing [email protected].
Share your views in the comments below.
Love Island 2022 latest
Kiss goodbye to your social life – Love Island is back to dominate your evenings, with the new series promising more drama than ever before.
- Full Love Island 2022 line-up
- Love Island: How long is Casa Amor on for?
- Love Island 2022: Jack Keating age, job, parents and Instagram
- Which Love Island couples are still together?
For all the latest updates, visit Metro.co.uk‘s Love Island page.
Source: Read Full Article