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June 11, 2004

Ashalea: We Change Our Stance

In what must come as a huge relief to Ashalea fans around the world (cough), ausculture.com are pleased to announce that we have changed our opinion on Ashalea.

Sure, earlier on we thought Big Brother were trying to put a spin on her stupidity (actually, we still think that) and we also suspected Ashalea was quite possibly the most stupid person on Australian television since Kelly Hoggett from Hi-5 struggled answering the $200 question on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and nearly cried.

I no longer believe Ashalea is as “special” as she makes out. I have noticed that in conversations with the girls Ashalea seems to understand English well enough - there are no “what does ‘dinner’ mean” queries or other questions of that ilk. No, Ashalea seems to function quite normally amongst a group of girls.

What a contrast to her mental abilities when the boys are in the room. “What’s an orifice?” “What’s naive mean?” and “I was going to ask BB to put the sun up ‘cos like I thought he could do it” are just a slice of the imbecile pie Ashalea has been serving up on our television screens nightly for the last month.

So what gives? How can someone be mindnumbingly ignorant with one group of people, and completely fine with another group? How can one person claim to be so completely inept at sarcasm that they need one of the males in the house to feed them an entire conversation, and yet drop a deadpan one liner over dinner about the girls being more inclined to mix with the lads should “Big Brother puts some hot guys in the house”?

Simple - it’s an act. Now, it’s not an act in the sense of it’s for the cameras - I have no doubt Ashalea behaves like this in the outside world, and she’s definitely ‘keeping it real’. Rather, she’s one of those irritating girls whose method of flirting with boys is to play the role of the dumb damsel in distress. I can only presume it’s been a highly successful method of interacting with men in the outside world for years, so there’s absolutely no reason for her to change her behaviour now she’s in the Big Brother house. And that, in my opinion, is almost far worse than being woefully ignorant of basic general knowledge. Most girls grow out of this Teehee, I’m Just A Girl! ™ method of flirtation at around, oh say age thirteen?

Just a theory, naturally, but I tend to believe my theories like inbred Southerners tend to believe everything written in Leviticus - wholly and completely, with a refusal to acknowledge any alternative way of viewing things.

Till I get bored and create a new theory, of course…

Posted by Jess at June 11, 2004 5:30 PM
— Filed under Big Brother Bonanza 2004