BB should be ashamed of making a joke of Patsy's beliefs.
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I'm honestly still upset by this.
They forced her to do a task involving her spiritual beliefs, which she made quite clear she took very seriously and that it made her uncomfortable.
Then they totally made fun of her and focused on the other HMs laughing and cracking up as she tried her best to get through it.
And to top it all off, they started BBOTS with even more piss taking with having the whole audience sitting cross legged pretending to meditate.
If this had been about any other belief system, Judaism, Christianity, Islam.. If they had asked them to perform a ceremony and provided them a room full of religious props and random quotes from the Torah, or Bible, or Quran on the walls, everyone would have lost their minds condemning it.
But because its "new age" or Buddhist, then its just a silly joke, and everyone thinks Patsy is a toddler throwing a tantrum over nothing.
>:( >:( >:(
They forced her to do a task involving her spiritual beliefs, which she made quite clear she took very seriously and that it made her uncomfortable.
Then they totally made fun of her and focused on the other HMs laughing and cracking up as she tried her best to get through it.
And to top it all off, they started BBOTS with even more piss taking with having the whole audience sitting cross legged pretending to meditate.
If this had been about any other belief system, Judaism, Christianity, Islam.. If they had asked them to perform a ceremony and provided them a room full of religious props and random quotes from the Torah, or Bible, or Quran on the walls, everyone would have lost their minds condemning it.
But because its "new age" or Buddhist, then its just a silly joke, and everyone thinks Patsy is a toddler throwing a tantrum over nothing.
>:( >:( >:(
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and the mumbo-jumbo she was teaching in that room was not 'Buddhist', and it wasn't even meditation, and couldn't even remotely considered as anything religious. It was frankly laughable: ('close your eyes, what colour do you see?...' )
if they'd forced a Jewish HM to eat pork, or a Sikh HM to shave his hair off, or a Catholic HM to use a condom... that would be a different matter
So her beliefs are Mumbo Jumbo but the others are not?
I agree.
the stuff she did in Bo Selecta was far more degrading but guessing the pay was better. I have just about zero faith in this production team as a whole but it came across as asking her to just take a class in Mediation if it had been like the BB8 Guru task then fair enough
Patsy missed a fabulous opportunity to actually show people something deeply meaningful to her and to share something with her HMs. I really like Patsy, but feel like she really let herself down with this.
I didn't see it as taking the mick out of her spiritual views at all.... meditation is not necessarily a spiritual practice. I do it sometimes when i need to de-stress. It's as spiritual to me as listening to a relaxation tape.
I think Nadia has informed the Authorities !
Which religion or organisation is she a follower of?
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She is a Roman Catholic.
Imagine if someone had been in the house who practised Islam and took themselves off with their prayer mat 5 times a day. Would BB have thought it was appropriate to ask them to lead the other HM's in Islamic prayers? Of course not. (It begs the question why, to my recollection, no committed practising Muslim has ever been in BB).
On the other hand anyone who goes into BB expecting their dignity to be unsullied is a bit stupid. The deal for CBB is pretty well we pay you some money to make a mockery of you should we see fit to. Worse things have happened to HMS.
I get the feeling that Patsy would prefer to be invisible to BB for her whole time in the house regardless of what the task would've been. She just doesn't want singled out. Perhaps CBB is the wrong decision for her. She's very nervy and fragile.
*yawn*
Cripes, get a grip.
Yeah, Nadia needs to chill a bit, maybe some meditation might help. ;-)
Now if she was Muslim and they wanted a task where she had to ditch that, then that would be awful.
Not blimming meditation though! She needs to chill out. No wonder she's getting no airtime and she probably won't from now.
There's always a lot of sniggering with these things. If you took half a dozen Christian 20-somethings to a mosque and asked them to copy the Imam then I reckon there would be more than one giggle. It is disrespectful of the 20-somethings, not the Imam. No-one is making fun of the religion. It is the ignorant participants that look foolish.
I agree - it's not a belief system at all. Patsy just doesn't want to be there - she's sleep walking through the whole thing.