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It's a bubble in which old-fashioned courtship is still standard practice, and traditional gender roles remain firmly intact (it's the man's job to propose, even on \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em>). There are always discussions amongst contestants about future children. And overwhelmingly, most of the people involved are white. The few people of color who do get included don't generally last long. (In 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://splinternews.com/a-history-of-black-contestants-on-the-bachelor-and-the-1793854495\">\u003cem>Splinter News\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> that: “In the history of the franchise, on both \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em>, a black contestant has never lasted longer than five weeks. In fact, more than half -- 59% -- of black \u003cem>Bachelor\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Bachelorette\u003c/em> contestants leave the shows within two weeks.”) \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em> may have cast their first African-American lead in 2017, but \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> has yet to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ4n8-90NFQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of \u003cem>The Bachelor/ette\u003c/em>'s viewers have always been women. In 2013, BroadcastingCable.com presented viewer statistics to prove it: \"\u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> averages a 2.7 in the 18-49 demo, but among women in the demo averages a 4.0.\" In 2015, \u003ca href=\"http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/audience-map-abc-primetime.html\">ShowBuzzDaily reported:\u003c/a> \"\u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> is one of the youngest-skewing shows on ABC, delivering substantial numbers of females 12-34 (quite rare for ABC).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One can presume that many of these women are seeking an escape from the complexities of modern dating, with all of its swiping, unsolicited photos and lack of resemblance to what girls were told to expect from dating, growing up. The men watching might enjoy the old-fashioned gender roles for entirely different reasons. But there is also likely a significant element here of using \u003cem>The Bachelor/ette\u003c/em> as a means to hang onto the idea of a bygone America in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Nielsen ratings listed \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> as Number 1 in a chart titled \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2014/06/tv-series-most-watched-rich-educated-viewers-787403/\">\"What the Young & Rich Watch.\"\u003c/a> At the time, \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2014/06/tv-series-most-watched-rich-educated-viewers-787403/\">\u003cem>Deadline\u003c/em> explained\u003c/a> that the show did \"a 111% higher rating in 150K+ homes than it [did] in regular demo ratings.” Given the fact that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-mcelwee/new-evidence-that-the-ric_b_7153396.html\">\u003cem>Huffington Post\u003c/em> cited data\u003c/a> in 2016 from the American National Elections Studies to demonstrate that \"the rich tend to be far more conservative than the average American,\" it makes sense that wealthy people, in particular, would love these shows. It's one of the only things left on primetime TV in 2018 that continues to present so many old-fashioned American values as still the norm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's true that the ratings of both shows have dropped, but that's mostly because \u003ca href=\"https://www.thewrap.com/broadcast-tv-ratings-nbc-cbs-abc-fox-cw/\">TV ratings have been dropping\u003c/a> across the board. \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em> started in 2003 with an average viewership of 16.65 million. By 2017, that number had dropped to 5.89 million. \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> has fared better, having fluctuated between an average of roughly 8 and 13 million viewers throughout its history. In 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/tv-ratings-the-bachelor-wins-odd-couple-finale-1201974307/\">\u003cem>Variety\u003c/em> reported:\u003c/a> \"\u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> continues to stomp the competition,\" and 2018's Season 22 finale brought in ABC's best figures of the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all that in mind, it's hard not to wonder if the continued popularity of \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em> in 2018 speaks to a longing at the heart of white, wealthy America to hang onto The Good Old Days. As culture rapidly changes, accelerated by the internet, and thanks to a strength in grassroots social movements not seen in this country in decades, \u003cem>The Bachelor/ette \u003c/em>refuses steadfastly to acknowledge that anything has changed. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If the wealth of recent headlines about Becca, Blake and Garrett are to be believed, \u003ca href=\"https://abc.go.com/shows/the-bachelorette/cast\">\u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://abc.go.com/shows/the-bachelor/cast\">\u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em>\u003c/a> are still, over 16 years after the latter first premiered, still pop culture staples. The franchise has collectively produced 28 failed relationships and eight successful ones (only one of which came together via \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em>), over the span of 389 episodes. There have also been four \u003cem>Bachelor\u003c/em> spin-off shows, one of which -- \u003ca href=\"https://abc.go.com/shows/bachelor-in-paradise/news/updates/bachelor-in-paradise-2018-cast-revealed\">\u003cem>Bachelor in Paradise\u003c/em>\u003c/a> -- briefly halted production last year after \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2017/06/bachelor-in-paradise-corinne-olympios-investigation-1202122270/\">a consent-related controversy.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in March, \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em>'s Season 22 finale was also roundly criticized after showing the winner (Becca) getting dumped by bachelor Arie in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0w0EScuZlE&t=42s\">excruciatingly uncut scene,\u003c/a> so he could instead go back to his second choice, Lauren. The break up was presented in split screen, lest we miss out on anyone's discomfort. It was so horrifying to watch, it even garnered an \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> parody.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/2CKGA9w-B6A'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/2CKGA9w-B6A'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The three-hour finale of \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em>'s fourteenth season also made no bones about reveling in the misfortune of at least one of its contestants. In his introduction to the live show, Chris Harrison, who so closely resembled \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbCCJS9KKO8\">Caesar Flickerman from \u003cem>The Hunger Games \u003c/em>\u003c/a>that it was borderline disturbing, proudly declared, \"One man will walk away with Becca, while the other will leave so broken-hearted, so devastated, we really haven't witnessed anything like this before. This is an absolute tear-jerker.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Bachelorette\u003c/em> have had their appeal dissected by multiple outlets over the years, almost all of whom have cited the compelling combination of reality show, game show and fairytale as the reason for the franchise's longevity. A couple of years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.glamour.com/story/why-are-we-still-watching-the-bachelor\">\u003cem>Glamour\u003c/em> also suggested\u003c/a> that women were still watching \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> because \"women ultimately emerge the heroes of a story that was originally about a man looking for love\" -- a bit of a stretch, given how the show so obviously pits women against each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Neither show has ever shifted from its original format, despite the myriad ways the world has drastically changed since the show first premiered. Tinder came along in 2012 and radically transformed American dating. #BlackLivesMatter has shone a light on everyday inequalities faced by people of color since it started in 2013. Marriage equality was achieved in 2015. Birthrates reached their \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/22/17376536/fertility-rate-united-states-births-women\">lowest point ever\u003c/a> in 2017. The post-Women's March feminist swell has been unstoppable since the day after President Trump's election. The gender spectrum is no longer a fringe conversation. Polyamory is no longer considered an obscure lifestyle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, \u003cem>The Bachelor/ette\u003c/em> continues to be a strictly heterosexual world, in which lifelong, licensed monogamy is the ultimate end goal. It's a bubble in which old-fashioned courtship is still standard practice, and traditional gender roles remain firmly intact (it's the man's job to propose, even on \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em>). There are always discussions amongst contestants about future children. And overwhelmingly, most of the people involved are white. The few people of color who do get included don't generally last long. (In 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://splinternews.com/a-history-of-black-contestants-on-the-bachelor-and-the-1793854495\">\u003cem>Splinter News\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> that: “In the history of the franchise, on both \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em>, a black contestant has never lasted longer than five weeks. In fact, more than half -- 59% -- of black \u003cem>Bachelor\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Bachelorette\u003c/em> contestants leave the shows within two weeks.”) \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em> may have cast their first African-American lead in 2017, but \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> has yet to do so.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/WJ4n8-90NFQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/WJ4n8-90NFQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The majority of \u003cem>The Bachelor/ette\u003c/em>'s viewers have always been women. In 2013, BroadcastingCable.com presented viewer statistics to prove it: \"\u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> averages a 2.7 in the 18-49 demo, but among women in the demo averages a 4.0.\" In 2015, \u003ca href=\"http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/audience-map-abc-primetime.html\">ShowBuzzDaily reported:\u003c/a> \"\u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> is one of the youngest-skewing shows on ABC, delivering substantial numbers of females 12-34 (quite rare for ABC).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One can presume that many of these women are seeking an escape from the complexities of modern dating, with all of its swiping, unsolicited photos and lack of resemblance to what girls were told to expect from dating, growing up. The men watching might enjoy the old-fashioned gender roles for entirely different reasons. 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"content": "\u003cp>Intrigue around \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em>, ABC's long-running dating reality show, usually centers on rendered roses and resentful rivals, but one contestant on the current season made headlines this week for different reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebekah Martinez, 22, has been seen weekly on television screens since Jan. 1, when the season debuted, and yet had also simultaneously been registered as a missing person in California's Humboldt County. That is until astute viewers and the local newspaper helped set the record straight on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 18, Martinez's mother called the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office to file a missing person's report, saying she had not heard from her daughter for a week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog/archives/2018/02/01/not-missing-in-humboldt-bachelor-contestant-bekah-martinez\">reports the North Coast Journal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sheriff's spokesperson told the newspaper that Martinez told her mother that she was going to Humboldt County to work on a marijuana farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After trying to get ahold of Martinez and following up on leads, police asked Martinez's mother on Dec. 12 whether she had made contact with her daughter, \u003ca href=\"http://people.com/tv/the-bachelor-bekah-martinez-missing-persons-list/\">reports People magazine\u003c/a>. The mother, who has not been identified, said she did in fact hear from her daughter on Nov. 18 after reporting her missing. But Martinez was never removed from the missing persons list. Per procedure, police asked for Martinez to contact the investigator directly, the magazine reports. That didn't happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BZKSxwFglPJ/?taken-by=whats_ur_sign\">posted on Instagram\u003c/a> on Sept. 17 — presumably around the time filming began for the 22nd season of the show — that she was giving up her \"phone and social media for the next several weeks, so if you need to contact me, welll... tough luck!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But far from flying under the radar, she resumed activity on social media in November, four days after her mother reported her missing and has continued posting regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet on Thursday, Humboldt County's \u003cem>North Coast Journal \u003c/em>published a cover story including Martinez as one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/the-humboldt-35/Content?oid=7775161\">\"The Humboldt 35.\"\u003c/a> The article explored why the county has California's highest rate of reported missing persons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the newspaper posted the article to Facebook, readers pointed out that not only was Martinez not missing, but also she was a burgeoning reality television star, known as Bekah M., currently among the top 10 contestants whittled down from the original 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0XP8UXesHg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the \u003cem>Journal \u003c/em>contacted the sheriff's office with the news, a deputy managed to get in touch with Martinez. The deputy said in an email, according to the newspaper, \"I just got off the phone with Rebekah. She is in fact the same person. She has been removed from (the Missing and Unidentified Persons Unit).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Humboldt 35 is now down to 33 after \u003ca href=\"https://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog/archives/2018/01/31/the-humboldt-34-missing-man-reunited-with-family\">at least one other person \u003c/a>was surprised to read he was officially missing. He called the newspaper to say he was alive and well and still living in the county with a roommate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a missing person is simply \"someone whose whereabouts is unknown to the reporting party,\" as the state's \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/missing\">Office of the Attorney General explains\u003c/a>. \"There is NO waiting period for reporting a person missing. All California police and sheriffs' departments must accept any report, including a report by telephone, of a missing person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Martinez has not explained the confusion directly, she did address it lightheartedly on Friday, tweeting, \"honestly the scariest thing about this story is that my efforts to conceal The Worst Drivers License Photo Of All Time have been thwarted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Woman+Reported+Missing+In+California+Found+On+%27The+Bachelor%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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What we ought to marvel at is how any of it exists at all; it's so irrelevant, uncool, unsuccessful in its mission, predictable, repetitive, sexist, and so forth. Yet, year after year, it airs. \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> is immortal. Nothing will kill it. People watch it ironically, perhaps, but they watch it nonetheless. They have watching parties. They tweet about it and write of it in \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/05/21/is-andi-dorfman-a-new-kind-of-bachelorette/all-that-the-bachelorette-inspires-is-nausea\">serious news outlets\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? I have theories. In part, surely there is some cognitive dissonance among us as we marvel at how this show happened at all, let alone continues to happen for 29 seasons. But I also think it gives us a chance to broadly and wildly psychoanalyze (ourselves, others, our entire culture). To admit or hide, compare or contrast our own romantic proclivities, personalities, and desires. 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When \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/05/27/how-the-death-of-a-bachelorette-contestant-is-dismantling-the-fairy-tale-of-reality-tv-eric-hill-andi-dorfman/\">one of the men dies in real life\u003c/a> because he existed there most of all. When one of the front runners disqualifies himself because the whole thing is too weird. Even Britt, despite her extraneous make-up, had moments of being \u003cem>real\u003c/em> real, not reality show real. Even much-loathed Juan Pablo, who refused to fall in love, was nearly interesting. Those break-downs, the admissions of humanity or truth (often accidental, often just a glimmer), are where the fascination lies. That those moments cannot be squelched entirely in the death grip of this franchise is somehow thrilling. I watch in the hopes that one day the world won't need this show, and nor will I, that it will chip away bit by bit, making space for something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bottom line is, \u003cem>Who cares?\u003c/em> And the answer is that most people don't. But all this ridiculousness has me hypnotized. In a world saturated with tasteless media, celebrity distractions, and a zillion television shows, \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Bachelorette\u003c/em> still stand apart. Both old fashioned and gratuitous simultaneously, they strike a note that no other reality show does (even its own spin-off, \u003cem>Bachelor in Paradise,\u003c/em> can't quite find the same anachronistic surreal tone). On \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em>, the Playboy pin-up really wants to be a wife too (or instead?)! 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And yet there you are, each season, pulled back into the vortex of suspense and surveillance, examining this cultural artifact, its profundity and triviality in equal measure, awaiting with baited breath the pre-determined surprises and faux cliffhangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">So, do you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">A) Unabashedly regale friends with \u003cem>Bachelorette\u003c/em> updates at dinner parties (go to Part I).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">B) Have an existential crisis about your proclivity for bad television and take up some light reading and research involving immersion in Marxist theory, Derrida and feminist texts (go to Part II).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part I\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"I've been getting into \u003cem>The Bachelorette,\u003c/em>\" you tell people proudly whenever they bring up more intelligent shows such as \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em>. People laugh nervously and wonder if you're serious as you entertain them with stories about Bryden, the Iraqi war vet who doesn't know what Brie is, Chris who writes poetry where ocean rhymes with emotion and the federal prosecutor who speaks mostly in legal puns (\"the people vs. Ben, case dismissed,\" he says, when his nemesis is sent home). You find this all hilarious and imagine there must be some deeper symbolism at work. Your questions are unending. Is it just so bad it's good? Is it tapping into some subconscious yearning you have for a traditional, domestic life? Is it simply a sociological train wreck from which you can't avert your eyes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Do you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">A) Secretly have a favorite bachelor who you hope with all your heart will win, and read \u003ca href=\"http://www.buddytv.com/articles/the-bachelorette/the-bachelorette-recap-say-it-50541.aspx\">spoiler-alert gossip blogs\u003c/a> to satisfy your desire to know the winner weeks in advance (go to Part III).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">B) Worry a bit about \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/11/11/the-problem-with-women-on-reality-tv.html\">representations of gender \u003c/a> and narrative manipulation on the show (go to Part IV).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part II\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">You listen to feminist critic Rachel Dubrofsky's \u003ca href=\"http://thecriticallede.com/096-interview-with-rachel-dubrofsky-author-of-the-surveillance-of-women-on-reality-tv/\">really interesting interview\u003c/a> where she discusses her book \u003cem>The Surveillance of Women On Reality TV: Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette\u003c/em>. Dubrofsky breaks apart how the show is ostensibly about monogamy, while actually illustrating an extreme opposite. One recent \"two-on-one\" date involves both men kissing the bachelorette chastely on either cheek and it's indeed really creepy. You wonder how the winner of the show feels when he watches these episodes after the fact. All the kissing of other men must make him sad. And what of the fact that all the dates, not just his, involve jumping from great heights and elaborately chandelier-lit dinners? Dubrofsky is a fan of the show and you admire how she compartmentalizes her critique alongside her enjoyment, something it seems intelligent people are able to do without much self-doubt, and something which you will practice from here on out. While reading Marxist theory, you learn that reification occurs when human creation is confused with facts of nature. \u003cem>\"The Bachelorette \u003c/em>is full of reification,\" you declare, looking the word up in the dictionary to see if you're saying anything at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">You re-read parts of \u003ca href=\"http://susanfaludi.com/backlash-chapter.html\">\u003cem>Backlash\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Susan Faludi's bad-ass book about contemporary resistance to feminism, which discusses how, \"the afflictions ascribed to feminism are all myths. From 'the man shortage' to 'the infertility epidemic'...these so-called female crises have had their origins not in the actual conditions of women's lives but rather in a closed system that starts and ends in the media, popular culture, and advertising — an endless feedback loop that perpetuates and exaggerates its own false images of womanhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">This is at the heart of \u003cem>The Bachelor/Bachelorette: \u003c/em>a closed system where the rules of the story make the ensuing proceedings seem plausible, even as something insidious is at work. It reminds you of\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/how-long-can-you-wait-to-have-a-baby/309374/\"> this article \u003c/a>in The Atlantic, how truths are being twisted, told and \u003cem>believed \u003c/em>in certain ways. You begin to worry all incarnations of this show are illuminating something awful about cultural logic and reinforcing retro notions of gender and marriage. As the real world makes strides in more enlightened directions, popular culture often does reflect back at us the very opposite of our better selves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Do you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">A) Try to put it all from your mind (go to Part V).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">B) Play a rousing game of Heartthrob in an attempt to get further toward the heart of the matter (go to Part VI).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part III\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">See Brooks, pictured below. You want him to win from the get-go. He's tall and halfway cute, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/05/28/186899046/a-parade-of-goobers-17-actual-people-presented-to-the-bachelorette\">at least by comparison\u003c/a> to his competitors. In one episode, he breaks his finger after a game of dodgeball and later shows up to a group date still loopy on pain killers, pronouncing, \"Oh, just make out with me!\" In keeping with what you believe to often be true about love, he is the most unsure of his feelings and ability to commit, and so the bachelorette is most in love with him, or so you believe. Regardless, you're hopeful for them and like her more for having picked the right guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://tvfoodanddrink.com/category/tv-now/page/2/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-6717 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/3-brooks-forester-broken-finger-2.jpg\" alt=\"3-brooks-forester-broken-finger-2\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/3-brooks-forester-broken-finger-2.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/3-brooks-forester-broken-finger-2-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: ABC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part IV\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">See James, pictured below. You don't like James. He has the shiny, dark eyes of a lunk-headed villain. And yet, his premature departure from the show, wherein the more sincere men bully him into admitting he's a horrific cad for imagining a life post-Bachelorette, strikes you as unfair. More importantly, James illustrates an important aspect of \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em>, one in which each person has many stories that might be contrived around them, and yet only one is deemed provocative and predictable enough to work within this structure. There must always be the bad guy, just as there must always be the hysterical woman. There must always be someone who cares too much and someone who doesn't care enough. Someone who can't open up and someone with a deep, dark secret they long to share. The material the editors and producers are given by their cast must be shaped and molded into these narratives, ones with, when you think about it, very little suspense at all. The twists and turns of these romances are not those of real romance. In the world of \u003cem>The Bachelorette,\u003c/em> you are guided to make the most boring choices, you're told who's most middle-road, neither extreme, and therefore desirable. Yet, when the winning couple enters the world, they almost always crumble. There's a lesson there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://thebigkibitz.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/bachelorette-preview/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6718\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6718\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/bachelorette-james-desiree.png\" alt=\"bachelorette-james-desiree\" width=\"593\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/bachelorette-james-desiree.png 817w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/bachelorette-james-desiree-400x205.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/bachelorette-james-desiree-800x410.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part V\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">You busy yourself with other things, or try. You go to brunch and take walks. You Instagram and work on your Tumblr pages. You read fiction that has nothing to do with love. You go to work. You idly Google image search your most and least favorite \u003cem>Bachelorette\u003c/em> men. You read \u003ca href=\"http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/content/u0015/0000001/0000660/u0015_0000001_0000660.pdf\">dissertations\u003c/a> that discuss critical and cultural approaches to watching the show. You discuss your findings over drinks with friends. They ask you what the deal is with that show anyway. You shake your head and say, \"I don't know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part VI\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/9P9uC5CvxmI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em> reminds you a lot of the 1988 classic board game, Heartthrob. You find a well-preserved edition of this game at a thrift store and many an evening is spent playing. The general gist is that you must choose a boy for yourself and guess who your friends are choosing. The boys are '80s hunks who get three good trait cards and one bad (nice odds!). You have to decide if the bad trait can be outweighed by the good ones, much like the ever-important decisions of actual love. It's a hilarious, amazing, horrifying game, as is \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em>. How do you critique or participate in these things, somehow weighing the cultural influence and importance, the impact on you and your adventure? The bottom line, you hope, is that being critical and being a fan are not mutually exclusive. You can and should thoroughly criticize even your most favorite things, especially your favorite things. Heartthrob comforts you. It all means very little, perhaps. It's all good fun, you tell yourself. \u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Unlike the bachelorette, you live happily ever after, or at least until Season 18 starts the adventure all over again.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"I've been getting into \u003cem>The Bachelorette,\u003c/em>\" you tell people proudly whenever they bring up more intelligent shows such as \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em>. People laugh nervously and wonder if you're serious as you entertain them with stories about Bryden, the Iraqi war vet who doesn't know what Brie is, Chris who writes poetry where ocean rhymes with emotion and the federal prosecutor who speaks mostly in legal puns (\"the people vs. Ben, case dismissed,\" he says, when his nemesis is sent home). You find this all hilarious and imagine there must be some deeper symbolism at work. Your questions are unending. Is it just so bad it's good? Is it tapping into some subconscious yearning you have for a traditional, domestic life? Is it simply a sociological train wreck from which you can't avert your eyes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Do you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">A) Secretly have a favorite bachelor who you hope with all your heart will win, and read \u003ca href=\"http://www.buddytv.com/articles/the-bachelorette/the-bachelorette-recap-say-it-50541.aspx\">spoiler-alert gossip blogs\u003c/a> to satisfy your desire to know the winner weeks in advance (go to Part III).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">B) Worry a bit about \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/11/11/the-problem-with-women-on-reality-tv.html\">representations of gender \u003c/a> and narrative manipulation on the show (go to Part IV).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part II\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">You listen to feminist critic Rachel Dubrofsky's \u003ca href=\"http://thecriticallede.com/096-interview-with-rachel-dubrofsky-author-of-the-surveillance-of-women-on-reality-tv/\">really interesting interview\u003c/a> where she discusses her book \u003cem>The Surveillance of Women On Reality TV: Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette\u003c/em>. Dubrofsky breaks apart how the show is ostensibly about monogamy, while actually illustrating an extreme opposite. One recent \"two-on-one\" date involves both men kissing the bachelorette chastely on either cheek and it's indeed really creepy. You wonder how the winner of the show feels when he watches these episodes after the fact. All the kissing of other men must make him sad. And what of the fact that all the dates, not just his, involve jumping from great heights and elaborately chandelier-lit dinners? Dubrofsky is a fan of the show and you admire how she compartmentalizes her critique alongside her enjoyment, something it seems intelligent people are able to do without much self-doubt, and something which you will practice from here on out. While reading Marxist theory, you learn that reification occurs when human creation is confused with facts of nature. \u003cem>\"The Bachelorette \u003c/em>is full of reification,\" you declare, looking the word up in the dictionary to see if you're saying anything at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">You re-read parts of \u003ca href=\"http://susanfaludi.com/backlash-chapter.html\">\u003cem>Backlash\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Susan Faludi's bad-ass book about contemporary resistance to feminism, which discusses how, \"the afflictions ascribed to feminism are all myths. From 'the man shortage' to 'the infertility epidemic'...these so-called female crises have had their origins not in the actual conditions of women's lives but rather in a closed system that starts and ends in the media, popular culture, and advertising — an endless feedback loop that perpetuates and exaggerates its own false images of womanhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">This is at the heart of \u003cem>The Bachelor/Bachelorette: \u003c/em>a closed system where the rules of the story make the ensuing proceedings seem plausible, even as something insidious is at work. It reminds you of\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/how-long-can-you-wait-to-have-a-baby/309374/\"> this article \u003c/a>in The Atlantic, how truths are being twisted, told and \u003cem>believed \u003c/em>in certain ways. You begin to worry all incarnations of this show are illuminating something awful about cultural logic and reinforcing retro notions of gender and marriage. As the real world makes strides in more enlightened directions, popular culture often does reflect back at us the very opposite of our better selves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Do you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">A) Try to put it all from your mind (go to Part V).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">B) Play a rousing game of Heartthrob in an attempt to get further toward the heart of the matter (go to Part VI).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part III\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">See Brooks, pictured below. You want him to win from the get-go. He's tall and halfway cute, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/05/28/186899046/a-parade-of-goobers-17-actual-people-presented-to-the-bachelorette\">at least by comparison\u003c/a> to his competitors. In one episode, he breaks his finger after a game of dodgeball and later shows up to a group date still loopy on pain killers, pronouncing, \"Oh, just make out with me!\" In keeping with what you believe to often be true about love, he is the most unsure of his feelings and ability to commit, and so the bachelorette is most in love with him, or so you believe. Regardless, you're hopeful for them and like her more for having picked the right guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://tvfoodanddrink.com/category/tv-now/page/2/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-6717 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/3-brooks-forester-broken-finger-2.jpg\" alt=\"3-brooks-forester-broken-finger-2\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/3-brooks-forester-broken-finger-2.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/3-brooks-forester-broken-finger-2-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: ABC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part IV\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">See James, pictured below. You don't like James. He has the shiny, dark eyes of a lunk-headed villain. And yet, his premature departure from the show, wherein the more sincere men bully him into admitting he's a horrific cad for imagining a life post-Bachelorette, strikes you as unfair. More importantly, James illustrates an important aspect of \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em>, one in which each person has many stories that might be contrived around them, and yet only one is deemed provocative and predictable enough to work within this structure. There must always be the bad guy, just as there must always be the hysterical woman. There must always be someone who cares too much and someone who doesn't care enough. Someone who can't open up and someone with a deep, dark secret they long to share. The material the editors and producers are given by their cast must be shaped and molded into these narratives, ones with, when you think about it, very little suspense at all. The twists and turns of these romances are not those of real romance. In the world of \u003cem>The Bachelorette,\u003c/em> you are guided to make the most boring choices, you're told who's most middle-road, neither extreme, and therefore desirable. Yet, when the winning couple enters the world, they almost always crumble. There's a lesson there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://thebigkibitz.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/bachelorette-preview/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6718\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6718\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/bachelorette-james-desiree.png\" alt=\"bachelorette-james-desiree\" width=\"593\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/bachelorette-james-desiree.png 817w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/bachelorette-james-desiree-400x205.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/bachelorette-james-desiree-800x410.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part V\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">You busy yourself with other things, or try. You go to brunch and take walks. You Instagram and work on your Tumblr pages. You read fiction that has nothing to do with love. You go to work. You idly Google image search your most and least favorite \u003cem>Bachelorette\u003c/em> men. You read \u003ca href=\"http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/content/u0015/0000001/0000660/u0015_0000001_0000660.pdf\">dissertations\u003c/a> that discuss critical and cultural approaches to watching the show. You discuss your findings over drinks with friends. They ask you what the deal is with that show anyway. You shake your head and say, \"I don't know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part VI\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/9P9uC5CvxmI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em> reminds you a lot of the 1988 classic board game, Heartthrob. You find a well-preserved edition of this game at a thrift store and many an evening is spent playing. The general gist is that you must choose a boy for yourself and guess who your friends are choosing. The boys are '80s hunks who get three good trait cards and one bad (nice odds!). You have to decide if the bad trait can be outweighed by the good ones, much like the ever-important decisions of actual love. It's a hilarious, amazing, horrifying game, as is \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em>. How do you critique or participate in these things, somehow weighing the cultural influence and importance, the impact on you and your adventure? The bottom line, you hope, is that being critical and being a fan are not mutually exclusive. You can and should thoroughly criticize even your most favorite things, especially your favorite things. Heartthrob comforts you. It all means very little, perhaps. 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