January 11, 2010

Such great heights: The Bachelor strives to reach new level of misogyny

i'm only writing about this because the scene in question was forced upon my eyes and etched in my brain and cannot be erased due to its intense and atrocious grossness...

So, in a preview for tonight's episode of ABC's The Bachelor the host goes up to The Bachelor and says [I'm paraphrasing here] "I need to tell you something because it's very serious. One of the ladies in the house is having an inappropriate relationship with one of our staff members."

Ok. I'm not going to try to explain the stupid premise behind the stupid show, but I was so blown away by the obvious and horrible hypocrisy behind it, I am ashamed to have a penis right now.  So, this douche bag, known to me as The Bachelor, is dating 20 (?) women who are locked up in a house and competing for his attention and "love". Finally one woman has the sense to be like "Yeah, I'm gonna make out with this dude who might actually be Mr. Right," or whatever, and she's having an "inappropriate relationship"?!!?!?!?!?!

So this woman is portrayed as a whore or slut or disloyal harlot, while the poor guy is the dreamy portrait of all that is good and pure. Never mind that the house is set up practically like a brothel...

I hated this show before and I SUPER-hate it now. Nothing spells misogyny like what just happened. Hopefully this sparks a riotous outcry of piss-off'edness.

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