SPLITSVILLA

Every now and then a show comes along that totally revolutionizes the way you look at life and a society's approach to understanding and perhaps evolving its social structure and norms. This is one such show. Initially i thought the show derived its name from the fact that you were left in "splits", every time you watched the show, however I am now told to believe that its is so called in order to stress upon the underlying theme and basic fear inducing element in the show ... the split. Now from the one and a quarter episode that I have witnessed, my limited understanding lends me to believe that the girls fear this split so much that they would do almost anything to avoid it. And for those of you innocent souls out there questioning what anything means, catch a glimpse of the show next time you're around your idiot box and you'll know what I'm referring to.

For those of you blissfully unaware of the context in which this blog is set. MTV Splitsvilla is a show where two young gentlemen and 20 young ladies, all from urban - "IT crowd" - metro - money no bar - never worked a day in my life - watched too many remix videos - less is more - skanky is sexy - attention seeking seeking syndrome - suffering demographic that is todays youth. And like all realty shows there is an element of competition introduced to spice up things a little bit as well. What is the object of desire and such intense competition you might ask. The first obvious guess would be money. The first guess would be wrong. The second guess would be something equally materialistic with a high potential pecuniary value. The second guess would be wrong as well. A certain hundred guesses later and presumably under the influnce of some asahi beer you might say, "well they must be competing for those two ruffian, scruffy lookin blokes" This guess, defiant of an entire social order that we are familiar of and indicative of a bold new frontier in human evolution where women are the chasers and men are the chasees, would surprisingly be right.

For those of you who perhaps understand more direct messages. THE WOMEN GO AFTER THE MEN . Why is "this" brilliant you might ask? in case you're a girl asking this question I do not feel compelled to answer your query. If you're a bloke askin the same query, to you i say good sir, it is time to stop living the lie and come out of the closet and announce to the world your preferance for an alternate lifestyle. The more pertinent question for the 'normal' heterosexual male is how is it really possible ? There in lies the brilliance. MTV and the assortium of half educated punkd out youth and old men stuck in their mid life crisis have amazingly found the elixir to life. They have realized the golden truth. The only way to have a group of reasonably good looking women vie for the attention of men (for a want of other descriptive adjectives, lets stick to scruffy blokes) and lay themselves bare (not literally unfortunately) on national television is to introduce an element of competitiveness. The only thing women hate more than being rejected by men is to be rejected by men in favour of another women. So putrid is the disgust induced of losing to another member of the same sex that they would do anything to win. In my opinion the girls really dont care about the two sadak chap romeos (ahh finally got it) as much as they do about landing up in the 'dumping zone'.
The bottom line. The show would have been as fierce and the women just as eager to 'impress' and talk about their "sexiest body parts", if you had two goats sitting in levis' apparel with monocles passing judgement. Hurrah to this new revolutionary comment on our modern day society. Hurrah to whatever does goats did to be on the show and have front row seats.
Hmmm I wonder if the eventual prize would be a nice big plate of mutton chops at the end.