The time has come for the first Big Brother eviction of 2023, and we'll be honest, we're disappointed. The live eviction will see either 40-year-old Kerry or 50-year-old Farida, two of the biggest characters in the house, be the first to leave the Big Brother house this evening: the 19th time a woman has been evicted first.

Yep, that's right. Across all 20 Big Brother seasons (bar series 17 when Marco Pierre White Jr was the first to leave) a woman has been the first voted out of the house, which seems deeply unfair given that women are often the ones providing all the main character energy.

Sadly, this season is no exception - despite the fact Farida, Kerry, Hallie, Yinrun and Olivia's backs must hurt from carrying this season. From Yinrun's instantly meme-able entrance on day one, to Hallie's touching revelation about being trans, to Olivia doing the absolute most to secure immunity, and Farida and Kerry's ongoing feud. The list really does go on, and without the women of this series, Big Brother season 20 would be a giant flop.

It's not to say the men aren't somewhat interesting - Jordan's deadpanness is funny, Jenkin's disastrous start in the house has been comical, and Matty, Zak, Paul and Dylan's conversation about their pasts was insightful.

But day in and day out, it's the women of Big Brother series 20 that are making the show worth watching, and doing the absolute most. The men are kind of just there. It's giving big 'he's just Ken' energy.

And yet, in this series, and many others like Strictly Come Dancing and I'm A Celebrity, the women are always voted out first. But why?

"It's giving big 'he's just Ken' energy."

Sometimes it may be a genuine reason - maybe they don't have a big following to guarantee fan votes, or are genuinely the worst contestant on the show. Or in the case of Strictly, maybe they're just not very good at dancing.

But in the case of Big Brother, it almost feels like some internalised misogyny, or unconscious bias. By being a woman who is taking up space and bringing that main character energy; by offering up opinions and not just fading into the background, they run the risk of being called "too much", and therefore are taken down by their fellow housemates.

As one person put it on X, formerly known as Twitter: "Tomorrow night, either Farida or Kerry will become the latest fallen angel in a long line of iconic women evicted first from Big Brother – purely for having an opinion and providing entertainment. A modern tragedy #BBUK."

This time around, the public had no control over Kerry and Farida being nominated for eviction, meaning one woman unfortunately has to be the first one out. However, in previous years, men have also been up for the public vote, and yet (almost) every time a woman has been chosen to leave the house first.

It reeks of internalised misogyny. The women on the shows are the ones to provide all the entertainment, and yet get critiqued the most by social media, and then are punished by being voted out first. When it was confirmed Farida and Kerry were up for eviction, other viewers protested it should be Olivia, another housemate giving big main character energy. Basically, if you're a woman and you're making a lot of noise on the show, you need to go.

As another fan on X highlighted: "The fact the Kerry and Farida have given all the entertainment all week are up for eviction when Paul, Matty etc have done f**k all and are safe."

Men often have the luxury of coasting all the way through to the final, without making much of an impact on the show. And yet as a woman if you're "too boring" you're booted out and if you're "too much" you follow the same fate.

Neither Kerry or Farida should be up for eviction tonight, in part because we're going to miss their on-going feud, but mainly because as the series' biggest entertainers they should be celebrated for being themselves, not punished by an early eviction.

Big Brother continues at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX