u/No_Sir4901

Ok, please follow me here real quick. Weeks ago, I commented on here and said we have to intentionally and intently listen to what people on this show say, simply because what they are saying isn’t what they mean. The first example was Melanie saying she doesn’t like the term “girl’s girl”. I was called a pick me bird for saying Melanie loves women, but what she meant when she spoke was that your actions towards other women speaks louder than anything else. And so far this week we’ve seen this from her. She doesn’t insult or go after women for Sincere’s discretions.

The next case was Zach. I’ve said time and time again he’s playing a role. The same role men like Kendall, Ace, Aaron etc. played. So many people said he’s just honest and wants what’s best blah blah blah. Thinking critically, why is he so invested in other people’s relationships, why is he constantly attempting to love bomb Kayda, why is he constantly downplaying the terrible behavior of other men? The answer is right there: he’s just like them.

The people defending KC and Titi are the biggest culprits. Every woman has repeated to KC why his actions were unacceptable atleast once every pride since casa happened. The reason why I say this directly correlated to the literacy crisis, is part of literacy is the literally device called inference. Many people thought that Titi was defending Aniya during the movies because she likes her, no Titi did that to reinforce her place as KC’s woman.

I still remember people thinking Bea was a real friend to Melanie, while taking every opportunity to talk negatively about her behind her back, then leaving the villa and backtracking.

Literacy isn’t about classrooms. It’s about being able to understand what’s going on in media. This is a huge reason I don’t engage with KC fans in any discourse.

A while back, I posted about how KC is the typical red pill man masquerading as a “nice man”. I got comments calling a man hating misandrist, who wants to see black men fail. This episode showed us how much KC has devolved. He’s insulting and cussing at the women. He called Kenzie a “stupid ass”, kept insulting women, suddenly has more base in how he talks to women.

He’s gotten to the position he wanted, and what most red pill men want. He embarrassed a woman who he knows is above him, now he’s living his fantasy. Him speaking to these women like they are nothing is who he truly is. He doesn’t even like Titi, she just chased him, defends him, and places him on the pedestal he has always wanted.

I think the thing that hurts me most about this show is how much more white and non-black men defend black women, compared to black men. During aftersun, Corey was doing a lot to defend KC. All over social media, the majority of men defending KC are other black men, the ones saying his behavior is weird and malicious are non-black men or queer black men. Aniya would have never won. She isn’t supposed to win in their eyes. She’s supposed to suffer for whatever fake grievance they have in their head.

Carl defending Trinity and Aniya, having empathy for them, and their reactions. The issue is that for so many black women, like me, this is way too similar to real life. I’ve seen black men on here also defending this behavior, which tells me again, next year, they’ll do it again

I think that production truly hates KC. These are the people watching all 24 hours of footage, interacting with the cast, and seeing everything happen preproduction. How he’s been speaking is his best foot forward. Aniya is so well liked by production, that for the first time EVER, in any LI production we have a vote to bring a casa member back.

For her to be well liked by production, it means there’s so much KC is saying about her that she doesn’t know.

I’ve talked about the red pill movement on here and how much it has affected this season, but I want to look at it from a different perspective. Just stating this, I have a degree in sociology, and spent years studying gender, sexuality, and human interaction (not an expert, just adding background).

KC, and any man who behaves or excuses his behavior, are incredibly dangerous to women. The reason being entitlement, and dehumanization. Please follow here lol. Gregory Stanton wrote and explained the 10 stages of genocide; one being dehumanization. Dehumanization makes violence extremely easy to perpetrate simply because the other individual isn’t a person to you, but a tool or thing. KC has shown multiple times that he feels entitled to Aniya’s body sexually (something he actually has no possession of). Last night’s episode he was angry with her, not for exploring, but for being more sexually open with a man, when he (KC) fellas like he’s done all the work to deserve it.

He’s doing the same thing to the casa girls. We’ve not seen any meaningful conversation between him and Titi, he wanted to bring her back to the villa to cause issues with Aniya. He doesn’t see this women as people, but rather an effigy of what he truly desires; complete devotion from women.

Consent is not something being spoken enough when talking about this issue. He could complement her everyday for the next 10 years, if she doesn’t want sleep with him, she’s doesn’t have to. Him bringing up “pouring into her” as a reason to deserve sex brings up the question “did he truly mean any compliment, or were they all for the purpose of sex?” The reason so many men are defending this behavior, is because they do the same thing. They lie, compliment women, and hide their true intentions as a way to sleep with women. They know it’s wrong, but calling his behavior out would cause too much cognitive dissonance, so they choose to defend.

KC isn’t going to get any better. He’s going to get more confident in his misogyny, just like every red piller.

Every season of love island, we’ve had someone assign themselves the role of group leader. They tend to believe they’ve done enough exploring and found the perfect connection. They try to dictate how people move and behave, and every season without fail, people see through their act, but way too late. Zach is exactly that. I don’t believe he’s stupid or mistake in anything he’s doing with these couples. It’s deliberate.

The first time we saw this was with how he was in Bryce’s ear about his connection. In my opinion Bryce and Trinity have the strongest connection. Zach would speak negatively to the man, and feed into the specific insecurity they have. With Bryce it was the fear that a black man who is Trinity’s type will come in. The whole “she doesn’t get out type of humor” was a way to bring her race to the forefront, forgetting him and Kayda are from 2 different cultures.

Next he went to KC and Aniya. He planted seeds of doubt in Aniya’s head about why KC is with her. He wants her to doubt KC’s intentions. After the talk on colorism, she’s aware he knows about how black women are treated in the show. If Zach can make Aniya look like the angry possessive black woman, who is to insecure to let ‘her man’ actually find true love, the audience will buy it (people are already calling Aniya everything, but a child of God).

These women are being manipulated and to many people watching have never seen other seasons of Love Island to know that Zach isn’t original, he’s the archetype of man who wants to win by pulling a fast one. Most memorable in this category of Kendall. He played the great guy friend, but STAYED in the men’s ears, but came back from casa without a girl, and looked perfectly innocent.