Are You Done with "The Bachelor?"

[Jack Springer]

Why no outrage for the Bachelor?

 

[borg69unimatrix]

While I DO have some ditzy shows I enjoy:

Welcome to Myrtle Manor, The Sci-Fi channel special effects make up one, The Voice, some of the various Survivor shows, Mythbusters ...

I don't watch:

The Bachelor
Duck Dynasty
Dancing with the Stars
Road Rules
Catfish
Jersey Shore
Kardashians
Mob Wives
America's got Talent
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
Big Brother

...

After giving it a couple seasons, I've even given up on American Idol.

 

[xbuzzerx]

^Because no one expected to find pearls in a pile of scat.

ABC has targeted the lowest common denominator with their programs since at least the 70's, and an idiot could tell that Pablo is as thick as his traps.

Let's just call it the Duck Dynasty Effect, except the offender in this case at least has cache with the urban crowd, so he is spared the vituperation reserved in America for rednecks.

Is there a whole demographic of people who personally identify with the bachelor and watch the show specifically because they feel either represented by him or identify with him and his life? Because that was clearly evident in the comments of many people defending Duck Dynasty all around the internet, and why his statements held a different reaction than one foreign contestant on a gameshow whose second language is English.

 

[roadtripboy]

The Bachelor has always been a show that is very clearly scripted. ABC should learn how to control it's actor's better. But, they may be too much to ask of them. After all, they didn't seem to realize that the first bachelor was gay. He seems to have accepted the role to get his SAG card. Lots of pictures surfaced of him hanging out with his friends in West Hollywood, along with pics of him clearly on a date with a another man.

 

[G-Lexington]

I've never watched the show, but this season, I've vowed to watch it faithfully, as this season's Bachelor is both hot-as-a-forge and not afraid to say what he thinks - I love a free thinker! Aren't I edgy?

Lex

 

[xbuzzerx]

I've never watched the show, but this season, I've vowed to watch it faithfully, as this season's Bachelor is both hot-as-a-forge and not afraid to say what he thinks - I love a free thinker! Aren't I edgy?

Lex

Parisz is that you?

 

[Jack Springer]

I've never watched the show, but this season, I've vowed to watch it faithfully, as this season's Bachelor is both hot-as-a-forge and not afraid to say what he thinks - I love a free thinker! Aren't I edgy?

Lex

He's thinks you're a pervert.

 

[JPGhost]

Never have and never will. They can't even get a decent looking guy.

On top of his ugly brain, his face is fucking ugly imo. Reminds me of Sid from Ice Age especially the shape of his dirty mouth!

'still can't make him ugly
but eversince Im evolved from my highschool form, now Im not too hungry to wanna be with someone jerk who I know will eventually ruin my life
His face doesnt get uglier with his behavior but his behavior will be the ultimate boner killer ^^

 

[xbuzzerx]

One assumes so. The show is practically an upscale sequel of MTV's Real World. Plots revolve around generally shallow chat, promiscuous behavior, drunkenness, catfights, supposedly outrageous statements, bling, nudity, cribs, and a sprinkling of charitable causes to suggest the partygoers actually have a redeeming quality or two.

I fear a lot of the bar and party crowd indeed look to the show as if it were an idealized existence. The viewers live in a morass of insipid drama and whoring, and assume the rest of the world does.

That's just my guess.

Well, you've drawn up your response to this whole situation as though it's merely a double standard imposed by "city folk" where it's alright to demonize poor behavior from "rednecks" and not so much if it's "city folk."

But I virtually guarantee you would not see the kind of visceral reaction to any action this show took-- or even its cancellation-- that fans of Duck Dynasty showed when they were defending Duck Dude. Certainly no one would take it as an attack on "we urban dwellers" because this identification you're alluding to between city people and what goes on in this reality show doesn't exist.

 

[xbuzzerx]

I agree the defense of Duck Dynasty was different.

But I do posit that the urban lifestyle portrayed in Bachelor is more familiar and accepted in urban settings, and would find a chilly reception in smaller population areas where people know each other and anonymity is less possible.

That is quite probably true. However, Jack asked this question about why the reaction is different. He asked the same question in CE&P and he's asking it for a specific reason: he thinks people are merely unfairly treating Duck Dude. The Bachelor is a non native English speaker, on a game show where catty women pretend to love him and compete to date or marry him. Every aspect of this show is artificial beyond belief. All but the most deluded people know this. No one tunes into the show eager to see their identity and lifestyle represented by this hispanophonic Bachlor in his artificial quest to find a game show wife.

The outpouring of support from Duck Dynasty fans when defending the comments made all reflected, in my opinion, the belief that this was a representation of their worldview and their values and their lifestyle which was under attack. Hence the many comments along the lines of "I believe in family values too!" Which is, of course, nearly always code for less than friendliness towards gay people.

The degree to which the reaction to the two statements is perceived as a "vindication" or a "legitimization" of a certain viewpoint are completely different. The Bachelor doesn't even represent any slice of Americans, certainly I don't know of any immigrants or foreign born demographics flocking to defend him on the basis that he's representing their way of life and their values by making these statements.

 

[G-Lexington]

Parisz is that you?

Buzzirshirk pls.

Lex

 

[xbuzzerx]

Buzzirshirk pls.

Lex

But why is avatar resembling monkey.

 

[G-Lexington]

Actually iz gargoil.

Lex

 

[maxpowr9]

How can you be done with something you never started?

 

[xbuzzerx]

Actually iz gargoil.

Lex

lol tru story bro

 

[carey579]

So grateful to Mr Fallon!

 

[Gentleheart]

^ that song though.