TLDR: It's not that the housemates are becoming worse, it's that we are becoming more unforgiving. If we face the same standards as we project for the housemates, would we survive our own rubrics?
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Wild take ah, but what if our standards for these housemates are becoming impossible to meet?
We celebrate the little victories of the our conversations here in X... and how we're slowly pushing conversations about equality, empowerment, accountability, and respect. And rightly so. These are conversations worth having.
But somewhere along the way over the past couple of weeks, I feel like we're forgetting that these housemates are human beings, too.
Flawed people.
Inconsistent people.
People who sometimes say the wrong things,
They follow the wrong group think, make questionable decisions, or fail to live up to the values they themselves believe in.
And isn't that just... human?
Us, as audience members...
Hindi naman tayo consistently mabuti, consistently mature, or consistently rational in our everyday lives. So why are we expecting these housemates to be?
Perhaps the problem isn't always that the housemates are getting worse.
Perhaps the lens through which we judge them is becoming increasingly unforgiving. Parang we've placed them in this impossible, almost divine mold of what a good person should be.
Na dapat palaging tama ang desisyon, palaging consistent ang prinsipyo, at palaging morally sound ang bawat interaction.
And suddenly, every inconsistency becomes hypocrisy. Every mistake becomes a character flaw. Every imperfection becomes a sin.
Don't get me wrong. Accountability matters. We should absolutely call out behaviour that is harmful or problematic.
But there's a difference between holding people accountable and demanding that they be morally flawless.
Because if our standard for being a good person is never making a bad decision, then I wonder how many of us watching would actually survive our own scrutiny.
Maybe we should allow these housemates the same humanity, complexity, and room for growth that we so readily demand for ourselves.
And perhaps, before we become too comfortable judging their imperfections, we should ask ourselves one uncomfortable question:
If we were held to the same standards we project onto these housemates, would we survive our own rubrics?
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i still trust ethan to do the right thing and prove why he is worthy of our votes so let us do our best and save him ๐๐ผ
BBS ETHAN
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i hope meron pa ring mga marunong at willing magbigay ng second chance lalo na kung credible na capable for bettering themself naman yung tao.
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