What makes a man and what makes a woman? Mola Adebisi has clear views on this in the new jungle episode – just like she does on a “classic marriage”. At the end, a man cries bitter tears.
“Zack, weg”: Thorsten Legat is out of the RTL jungle camp of legends. For the candidate who probably wanted to win the anniversary season the most, it’s all over in the 13th episode of “I’m a Celebrity – Showdown of the Jungle Legends” shown on Tuesday evening on the streaming service RTL+.
Failure in the “Schlimming Pool”
Because Legat, in a team with Gigi Birofio, doesn’t fish all the stars out of a water tank as quickly as the opponents in the jungle test “Schlimming Pool”, the opponents – Mola Adebisi and Eric Stehfest – are allowed to choose who has to leave the show. And they choose Legat. He is “the strongest opponent”, says Adebisi, justifying the choice. “That’s the game”, says Legat, stressing several times: “Everything’s fine.”
But then it doesn’t seem like much is good anymore when the realization sets in that it is really over. “This is the end of the journey,” says Legat, who has never been accused of failing to recognize the drama of the moment. “I lived it, I loved it.”
“Everything’s fine” – “Everything’s fuck”
“Everything’s fine,” he says once more, before the truth bursts out of him: “Everything’s fucked,” says the 55-year-old ex-footballer – and cries bitter tears. “It’s so heartbreaking for me.” In the previous episode, he had theatrically expressed his outrage that candidate Georgina had used the F-word. But she is also a mother, which made her offense even more serious in the eyes of some of the campers. Perhaps other moral standards apply there.
Speaking of different expectations: In episode 13, presenter Mola Adebisi goes into great detail about how mothers love their children very differently than fathers. That he doesn’t believe in emancipation and that a “classic marriage” (i.e. between a man and a woman) is the norm. After all, 80 percent of people are heterosexual – and therefore apparently normal. “You’re a normal heterosexual woman,” he says to Sarah Knappik.
“Gender roles backwards”
Moderator Jan Köppen later speaks of a “reverse gender role”. Mola also says: “I don’t want to do what a woman does, and a woman shouldn’t do what a man does.” He gives examples of filling up the car and putting together an Ikea cupboard. His wife, for example, has no desire to do that.
As a man you have to be very careful these days, says Mola, and that there are double standards. For example, if a man says that a woman has to cook, then that is met with negative comments. But: “If a woman says she doesn’t feel like cooking, then she gets applause.” Without batting an eyelid, the 51-year-old also says: “My wife is my queen, but I am the law.”
While the other candidates vacillate between disbelief and protest, candidate Eric holds back when Mola asks him to take part in the debate: “I don’t want to say anything about it, otherwise I’ll escalate.”
Source: Stern
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