LAST EDITED ON 04-12-10 AT 08:33 AM (EST)

I pretty much agree that Brandy & C were made to look like the team who initiated the insult game. For me, "the Lesbians" became pretty much an un-pejorative descriptive term, like "the cowboys" or (in other seasons, "the gay guys"). It seems that everyone gets a label, and I just bet that Brent & C weren’t the only team that referred to Brandy and C as Lesbians. But Brandy wasn't just tossing off an offhand insult, she seemed to want to turn the knife. And her insulting imitation of Brent was definitely mean, and an insult. Props to her for originality, however.

Editing. Maybe the editors are the real bigots. But maybe we’re the bigots for thinking of that term as an insulting description?

Caite is also a bigot. She meant to insult. And in her naivety she may have meant it as an ultimate putdown. But I’d like to know how Brandy and C felt about being called lesbians. I mean, surely they resented the intent behind Caite’s insult, but they advertised themselves as lesbians, they were out, and even Phil referred to them as lesbians in the beginning (right? or did I imagine that?). I never saw any evidence that they resented the term per se. Maybe they looked on it as a badge of honor, or at least as a “yeah, we’re gay, so what?” type of thing.

It was pretty obvious that the “anyone one but us” philosophy motivated the detectives to play up Brent &C's aversion to Brandy&C rather than “elimination of the strong threat” philosophy. So Brandy and C’s real mistake was to become in the eyes of the other teams a target by unnecessarily insulting another team, just because they could. I think it made Brandy and C feel superior. Bad strategy caused them to be the target of the other teams, and when the time came, they paid for their hubris. They are to blame for their being U-turned, and Brandy should just look in a mirror if she wants to see someone who is less smart than Caite. A low bar indeed, but one which she managed to fall below.

Accidental Swoop. And not a subtle jibe to the lesbians. A pure knuckle dragging accident.