When Women Rule the World: One

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My Live Blogging Experiment

Introduction
So this is going to be my first (and possibly only) live blogging experiment. At 10.35 I am going to watch When Women Rule the World and write down what I think about it. I’ll update the post during each ad break.

While we’re all waiting for the fun to begin, here’s the TV guide blurb. I shouldn’t be getting my hopes up about the sacrifice, should I?

Steve Jones presents a new entertainment series in which eight women are given dominion over 10 men, and challenged to create a utopian society in a Caribbean setting. Each week, the least productive man will be sacrificed from the island, with the last one standing winning a prize of £30,000. In the first episode, the ladies must choose their Queen to lead the group

Here’s my initial (rather daunted) reaction to the show.

Part One
So this is the live bit starting here. Be forgiving of my real life typing.God, I really don’t know if this will work, or if I will be interesting. And it will probably mean nothing to people not watching the show. But it is an experiment.

I have to confess upfront that I am reluctantly excited. There is a bit in the trailer where (presumably) bad men get daubed with red paint. That is kind of hot as a thing. And it has to be a refreshing vision of female dominance in some ways. I mean, it’s set in the Caribbean so not latex-o-wear. Okay, there’s bikinis – but I am sure the men will be as naked as it’s sweat-sticky. And the winning (i.e most obedient) man gets a cash prize. Now that is also some kind of hot.

Anyway, it is now starting. Oh, I am strangely worried I might not think of anything interesting to say about it. Oh, hang on, Steve Jones is all wet. Women *do* rule the world.

God, all the women seem so self confident. I am still excited though. Oh, the red paint splattering thing they’re trailering is really hot.

Oh shit though, the women are all striding out of the sea in bikinis now. And what’s with the feminist ideology – feminism is about equality. ‘Women rule – men obey’ is very equalist now, is it? Hmm, and the men are wearing very normal clothes compares to the women’s gold bikinis and wafty sarongs. Oh the men are now spouting comedy chauvinist opinions. Oh god.

Oh for fuck’s sake – after the break she’s calling him bitch….

Part Two
Okay it is now adverts. My heart is sinking so fast about that woman saying to the man ‘come here, bitch‘. It is so femdom porny. I will just try and breathe

Oh god the men are so badly dressed. I hope that changes when the women take charge. Eurgh (1) ‘Meet your new mistresses‘ and then (2) a grunt says ‘I usually have to pay for that’. See! See! I told you the pay-for thing was the default setting for my sexuality.

I wish they would stop saying stuff like ‘Men – here, *you* are the weaker sex’. FFS. Like normally *women* are weak.

Oh, though the queen is so picking the servants I would pick. The big ones. Course there is no mention of the fact that this might be hot for the women (or hasn’t been so far), but there have been many assesments by the men of how hot (or not) the women are.

Oh come on and make them take their clothes off! Oh, thank you. ‘These will be your only clothes‘. Nice. I’m not really finding it sexy though.

Pan is laughing at the guy who wanted to have ’some biscuits’

Oh fuck they are not stopping with the Mistress thing. Mistress Leanne – so they are being called that now? And it’s all a bit domestic chorey. Sweeping up and like. When are they going to dig pointless holes?

Sweat is nice though. The phrase ‘nag him into ultimate submission’ is kind of not. Oh, hang on, punishment! Oh water over the head. Not really enough. God I like the stroppy one so much. I wish I was running this show. I would not punish him further with… – oh, god, housework! They so need to read my blog and learn how masculine submission can be a lovely hot thing. Mind you they are probably not allowed to tie the up and flick lit matches at them.

Part Three
Why are they still wearing baggy grey vests? The ‘these are your only clothes’ thing has turned out so lame.

Ooh, stroppy’s off again. Actually though this is quite cutely ‘domestic femdom’. I mean that in a good way. It’s…OH MY GOD FORCED FEM ALREADY?????

Oh no, that was just an empty threat. Still the threat though: ‘put him into women’s underwear’. Course stroppy does just show that you can’t make people submit if they don’t want to in that kind of playful situation. Person can just say no.

But I don’t understand why they are so worried about stroppy- can’t they just kick him off? Isn’t that rule.

Okay, I am now finding this programme just the weirdest experience ever. It’s just… odd. You can see the influence of pop culty femdom culture, but mainly it is just oddness.

BJ, stop getting excited about the sacrifice.

I think the guy who says women can’t lead ’cause they are driven by emotion should watch Battlestar Galactica and take a look a President Rosalin’s perfect female leader driven by emotion.

If the sacrifice can at least represent some kind of awful fate. Just slightly…

My favourite ‘mistress’ is the woman who wants to rule with love. I think that is sort of cute.

This show could use some manacles. Some chains and stuff. And collars – couldn’t the men have collars? Oh god, I could do this so much better.

Part Four
Sacrifice! Sacrifice! Sacrifice!!!!!!

Ooh the painty splatter smear across bare chest. Like, like, like. God the women are good at grumpy faces. I would laugh. Oh and the red paint looks like blood. Yeah. This is the best show ever!

Oh, actually, this bit is quite dull. And now some guy has elected to leave. What an anti-climax. Jesus. And the ’sacrifice’ is unsurpisingly shit.

Oh. And it’s over. That was sudden.

I don’t know if I’ll watch again. Maybe. Not sure how well this live blogging works. It’s kind of easier than writing a proper blog post (don’t know if that surprises you – I do try and put some effort in).

I think I probably enjoyed the show more cause I was blogging it. Not sure if I could keep it exciting if I did another episode. And you know, when I say exciting, well, that might not be the most appropriate word.

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