Attention-seeking, #MeToo and ‘The Bachelor’

[The Patriot]

Attention-seeking, #MeToo and ‘The Bachelor’

01-30-2020 12:31 PM

On Monday nights, my 19-year-old daughter, Lilly, and I commandeer the television to watch a show that admittedly has no cultural value. Though billed as a reality show, it’s not based on reality at all. It’s a carefully contrived dating competition in which 30 women compete for the affections of one man in the midst of sprawling hilltop villas, sequined gowns, helicopter dates, tropical resorts, champagne-fueled cocktail parties, rose ceremonies and ginormous diamond engagement rings.That show is, of course, “The Bachelor.”


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