"More to Love"

Well, last night marked yet another ending--the finale of the nth season of ABC's The Bachelorette. C watched only the last few episodes with half-hearted interest, but I still managed to suffer through the part where the two finalists pick out engagement rings that outshine the one I has picked out, and the magical and poetic ocean-side proposals that make the few words I spoke on our apartment balcony seem pretty worthless...

Where there is an end, there is a beginning--this reincarnation being the new series on Fox, More to Love--which is similar to The Bachelor, but it's for people that are overweight. It has been pitched as if they were leveling the playing field or something: "Sure, skinny people find love with skinny people. But guess what? We just figured out that fat people can be loved too--by other fat people!"

Here is the network's version of the show's premise:
MORE TO LOVE, the new dating competition show from Mike Fleiss ("The Bachelor"), follows one regular guy's search for love among a group of real women determined to prove that love comes in all shapes and sizes.

So, instead of mixing up the pool of candidates, combining people that represent a normal spectrum of weights, the producers decided to keep them separate.

Reading words like "regular" and "real," one might be tricked into thinking that "regular" and "real" people are somehow equal to the others who find themselves in the other shows (The Bachelor/Bachelorette). "All shapes and sizes"? Hardly.

My problem resides with the fact that the producers think they are doing some sort of favor for big people. (Here is an article discussing More to Love, sort of in light of feminism and size-ism.) (Here's another that pins the show to "Fatsploitation".)

This is not my realm of expertise. Anyone else have thoughts?