I admit to still feeling a little “assaulted” by watching the first 20 minutes of The Bachelor on Sunday night. There were so many signs I shouldn’t have even given it a chance so I’m not sure how I came to lying in bed and watching it with my son
The whole premise of the show is a bit hideous. 25 conventionally attractive, hand-selected woman demean themselves to get the attention of a man they don’t know while fighting off other women in a contest to see who can lose their dignity first.
My husband actually thought I was joking when I left the room telling him I wanted to watch these woman fight over a man they might marry after meeting him on TV. I think I may have even heard him asking whether I had a temperature or was just feeling unwell.
Plus I don’t believe in chiropractors. Tim, the bachelor is no exception
But I am a soldier and I persevered because there was some element of car crash watching that I couldn’t escape from. For 20 minutes I watched. I sent about 20 flabbergasted tweets and then spent the next 20 minutes showing my son positive female role models and explaining to him that it’s not the way that women behave in real life and nor should they be portrayed like that.
I may have even tried to resort to some voodoo type techniques to erase his memory of what I had subjected him to. There was a lot I had to undo, it wasn’t just the visual impact of 25 women who all looked ageless due to the fact that their faces didn’t move, 25 women who seemed to have created their own hole in the ozone because of the amount of hair spray they had used and who could not walk in the shoes they had chosen to impress Tim with.
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I felt like I had to impress upon my son that all this plastic and fakery was not important. That people should be valued and loved for who they are not just what they look like and that love is not something you find through competition.
It was time to slash a few stereotypes and what better way to do that than a beer commercial. No seriously. Watch this. I don’t need to say another word
Who would have ever thought that I would rather my son watch an ad for beer over a bit of “family prime time TV”?
Well done Guinness, well done
It is all a bit sad isn’t it Lana. I question the suitability of these shows for kids as well, although mine aren’t old enough to stay awake past 7pm yet. I am ashamed to say I recorded it for later viewing so I wasn’t subjected to ten thousand ads. It made me cringe and giggle, but mostly I was horrified to see a search for ‘love’ played out with everyone done up to the nines, getting pissed and cat fighting.
I have seen a few episodes of the US version and if that is anything to go by (as well as the previews for the Australian version), he will be snogging everyone by next week. Not exactly gentlemanly or what we want to teach our children. Well done for saying no and setting a better example for your son.
Thanks Michelle – it’s quite ridiculous that they air these shows when kids are watching TV with their families isn’t it? Enjoy those 7pm bedtimes while you can 😉 xx
I didn’t watch it, the previews and countdown beforehand were enough to put me off. I don’t know who the target audience is? My 10 year old son would probably watch it if allowed, as he is at that age where he likes that boy/girl stuff, but as you said he would have to have his memory erased afterwards!
Your 10-year old is probably the target audience and that’s a bit of a ridiculous demographic to appeal to for a “dating” show. I feel like I am 190 when I say that but seriously it’s not what we want to teach our kids about love and respect. The beer ad on the other hand….
Oh I am soooooo showing my boys that ad. And I’m not going near The Batchelor, I’ll just watch beer ads with my sons.
Exceptional ad isn’t it. My son actually almost cried when I showed it to him. He gets that from his mum 🙂
Just like in real life, I skipped most of the show (your post) because I got the gist of if and went on to watch the commercial.
You are right.
Excellent!
I would even rather watch that ad than read my own blog – that’s how good I think it is xx
I didn’t bother with the Bachelor as the whole concept just pushes my buttons and I really didn’t need the aggravation. But as an increasingly frequent wheelchair user I can say that ad is one of the less patronising ones. Quite like it. .Never thought I’d say that about a beer ad.
No, never thought I would like a beer ad either but this one made me want to buy a Guiness for every beer drinker I know. Brilliant thought behind that ad – the kind of humanity I want my son to see xx
Top ad!!! Can’t wait to show my boys.
Joelene did my blow dry on Thurs. she is a great stylist. Not putting on an act… Like that in the salon too
Wow. I had heard on Twitter that Joelene was a great stylist as well – I am sure she is but she really didn’t cover herself in glory on the show. She just seemed so hostile. And bitter. I hope that she’s just tough – not angry or hurt
My 8 yr old wanted to watch Big Brother, but I told him that I wouldn’t let him because watching it made you lose brain cells. I said it with a straight face, and I think he believed me. I’m all for honesty, but I don’t regret lying to him (was it really a lie?)
Thanks for this ad! it made my heart swell so much that tears came out of my eyes.
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It wasn’t REALLY a lie 🙂
I still get tears every time I watch the ad and I have watched it a LOT ! xx
I love the show! I also love your blog, so I hope there is still room for me in your community 🙂
I just can’t get over, how, after almost 12 series in the USA, and now 1 in Australia. They can still find people, who are lawyers, doctors, etc etc….and they still can’t understand the basic logic that The Bachelor has never had a successful marriage from the show. Plus The Bachelor ends up sleeping with everyone on the show!
The two things that really bugs me about the Australian adaption so far though —
1. The roses are half dead! What the hell is going on?? Can they get a better florist? What does it take to get a crisp, red rose!!!
2. Andrew G trying to say his lines with some kind of ‘meaning.’ I could have introduced all of them to the man of their dreams, within the long…….awkward…..silences……of him pausing for no reason, as he strings out the most basic sentence!!! Actually, maybe it’s a metaphor, for the reality of dating! It’s sentences like his, that force women to see a chiropractor on national TV, with no confirmed appointment.
The other thing i don’t get, is people saying it’s degrading women. I personally find that degrading! Not that i would ever go on it, or don’t understand how ‘cringe’ it is when you see women/men throwing themselves at someone and acting totally crazed…. The reality is, people do it!!!
It’s still within their power to act the way they want. They are not degrading themselves, that’s a judgement placed upon them! They are just being the way they actually are!
I wrote a dating column for the SMH for many years, where we sent people on blind dates The reality is, dating sends a lot of people over the edge! Especially those drawn to doing it in a public forum. Watch some of the Bachelorette seasons, and the guys are just as bad!
But my word, if you like to watch a ‘hot mess’ a the end of the night, the show sure beats Miley twerking!
But that’s just my opinion. Totally get all of yours!
Yay! I love your comment. Love it when people have different opinions to my own and can put it out there for me to engage with or learn from
I think your observations are astute – no successful marriages must mean something is wrong with the premise of the show. The process of selecting 25 women in the first place is where it gets me – that’s a pretty small range to choose the person you want to spend the rest of your life with from.
Dating does send people over the edge and competition dating must just intensify it.
And I think you hit the nail on the head when you said it beats Miley twerking, I would rather appear as a contestant on The Bachelor than be subjected to that again 🙂 xxxx
I refuse to watch any reality television because well, reality television has no basis in reality.
Loved that Guiness ad, did not see that coming at the end of the game at all.
I had to know something was going to happen in the end or I would have turned off thinking it was just big boofy boys. It was just brilliant in its turn around wasn’t it?
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Oh Lana, I cringed cringed cringed! I do hope that these women are defined more for other things that they do in life not for reducing themselves to shameless desperado’s!