It’s a television show. We watched it and thought it was awful. But we watched it again. Then we got seduced by the romance and intrigue, started calling it the train wreck, and watched it every week. These poor people get so caught up in the game, you know it’s going to end terribly for almost all of them.
Then the reality of what the show was doing sunk in. Twenty-plus young women groomed to open their hearts, with the guarantee that all of them except maybe one, would be broken. The girls are constantly coached and coerced into “letting down their guard”, “opening up”, and “being vulnerable”. The bachelor can’t properly fall in love unless you give yourself fully to him.
It is a well-funded, smoothly produced, manipulation of impressionable young women. They’re flown all over the world to exotic and romantic locations. They are kept in extravagant isolation with each other, to the point that the only thing that seems real in the world is that season’s show. Then, one-by-one, we watch them get crushed.
This show could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to find true love, or it could be a heartless victimization of women for money (ratings). And every other year, they do the same thing to guys. I feel worse for the women than I do for the men. I could make the same case; that the men are young and impressionable too, but we’re just not supposed to abuse women like that.
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