Ep. 229: Is ‘The Bachelor’ Franchise Racist? w/ Geoff Keith & Ian Gulbransen
The E & G Podcast
Ian Gulbransen
4.8 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2018
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Special Edition: Discussing Whether 'The Bachelor’ Franchise Is Exploiting Race for Ratings
After hearing for years that #TheBachelor franchise is racist & sexist, we've decided to have a long-form conversation in order to get to the bottom of it. In preparation for this chat, on Instagram, we posted a simple poll asking "Yes" or "No" ...is 'The Bachelor' racist? Thousands of you voted & the results were split almost completely down the middle 50/50. This got us thinking: "If roughly HALF the fans of a show truly believe it to be racist, why do they continue to watch? How can you be so supportive of a franchise you feel is truly racist? & is there proof to show that Bachelor fans could be sexist...towards men?" These are touchy topics, but important nonetheless. We look forward to your feedback!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the most dramatic episode in Bachelor history. |
| 0:05.0 | I feel like you haven't acknowledged exactly what you're trying to forgive you for. |
| 0:18.0 | I think you're just saying I've been a bad person, but you're not acknowledging the kind of invisible racism in your mind. You may not be doing it intentionally, |
| 0:24.9 | but I think you are, is still motivating your actions. The racism that is ingrained in your |
| 0:29.0 | behavior to the point of invisibility is still pushing you to behave in a certain way towards |
| 0:33.3 | Kenny, towards Eric, towards me in a way that you don't even recognize. So where are you now? |
| 0:38.8 | Are you acknowledging that even if you didn't intend it, are your actions motivated by racist |
| 0:43.8 | thoughts that are implicitly embedded in your mentality? |
| 0:47.2 | Okay. |
| 0:47.5 | Okay. |
| 0:48.5 | I'm just trying to say, well. |
| 0:53.5 | Hey, well. |
| 0:58.0 | Hey, bitches. |
| 0:58.9 | This is Alexis. |
| 1:00.4 | This is Mario Jackson. |
| 1:01.6 | This is Eric Bigger. |
| 1:03.6 | This is Jorge from Bachelor in Paradise. |
| 1:06.2 | You're listening to my favorite podcast. |
| 1:15.3 | E-N-G, Bachelor Nation favorite podcast. What's up, everybody, and welcome back to the hate-free and always in good fun, special edition of the E&G podcast. |
| 1:21.9 | So today is going to be a bit of a touchy one. |
| 1:26.4 | Ian and I are going to talk about |
| 1:27.7 | is the Bachelor franchise racist and sexist |
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