Entry FeedI watched most of the first season of The Bachelor, but haven't really watched much since. Really, the idea of the show turns my stomach. 25 beautiful women vying for a marriage proposal from a single man. I never figured out why any of the bachelors were actually so great that they would deserve this (back in university with used to joke about the girls only there to find a husband, how they were looking for the MRS degree.)
Then, it was failed engagement after failed engagement. It seemed that the scripted romance of the show never translated into real life.
The only successful relationship is Trista - the first bachelorette. Obviously, while women are successful with choosing a mate for themselves, men are hopeless idiots. Unfortunately, it seems like reality TV finds beautiful, but very dumb people.
Jason is the just the latest idiot bachelor to prove that this show should be taken off the air. Really - who is watching these shows? Molly - if you have any brain or self-preservation instinct - run as fast as you can in the opposite direction!
On a deeper level, how do I raise my daughter not to put up with the ridiculous crap just to have a man? I hope when I watch her fight with her brothers that she is going to develop enough of a backbone to stick up for herself.
I want her to learn self worth - that she is someone without a boyfriend. I want my daughter to have confidence and self-esteem. She is smart, she is beautiful and she can do anything she wants.
It really, really bothers me to see women competing for marriage like it is the only desirable prize in life, especially as most of these men end up being a booby prize. I feel like we are going backwards in the women's movement. Focusing more on what we look like, and less on who we are; making more important to land a man before we turn thirty, and less important as to what we can accomplish in our lives.
Unfortunately, the media doesn't give me much support as a mother trying to raise a strong, independent feminist daughter. Between the bachelor, Rhianna, octomom, I really worry for my Daughter's future. How can she grow up in this world with such screwed up values and be OK?