"Big Brother 10": Well, that didn't take long

And I had such high hopes for this season of Big Brother. Obviously, I'm a fool.

After last season, and the debacle that was Joshuah, this season started out promisingly with the inclusion of gay cowboy Steven. He seemed intelligent, sensitive, and well spoken, and I was looking forward to getting to know him better (and I had decided to overlook the fact that he chews tobacco and dresses like Larry the Cable Guy).

On the first Big Brother After Dark show (which I usually just skim through looking for pickle), I actually stopped and watched it every time he came onscreen, and I really became enamored of his sense of humour and the fact that he seemed genuinely likeable (and the fact that he kept promising to eventually get naked for the cameras didn't hurt).

Unfortunately, it's taken less than a week for him to embarrass himself. In a discussion about housemate Libra, Steven uttered this cringe-worthy, regrettable complaint:

"That colored girl ain't controlling nothing."

Oh dear.

Hearing him say that makes this pre-season statement from him seem like a self-fullfilling prophecy:

"If you make a mistake and say the wrong things, you may offend people and be known for that forever," "People make mistakes. If I do make a mistake, I hope I can learn from it and know that was some part of my life that I was ignorant or uneducated about."

Well, Steven, here's your chance. Hopefully, you can learn from it.

I've been on message boards where people are trying to excuse it by saying "Well, he's from the South, and people still talk like that." Sorry, that doesn't wash. This is 2008, and no reasonably intelligent person could possibly believe that using the word "colored" is acceptable. Libra made her own faux pas, though, by saying this about Steven's over-sensitivity: "I don't think he's a man, I think he's a female".

This could be a very long season.

You can see the clip of Steven after the break, and when there's more news about this season's gay housemate, we'll keep you updated.