Reality Dating Shows Are Bad. Why Do We Love Them?

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4.5 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Today: we're sharing the latest episode of another Skimm podcast, Pop Cultured with theSkimm. Skimm This will be back in your feed with the week's news on Thursday. The Bachelorette’s Michelle Young is making Bachelor nation history. For the first time since the franchise premiered in 2002, the man who'll soon be handed that final rose is guaranteed to be a man of color. It may seem like reality dating shows are making some slow progress on diversity. But why aren’t they keeping up with our IRL views on love and relationships? You’ll hear from: Bethonie Butler, TV and pop culture reporter for the Washington Post. Joanna Weiss, Editor-in-Chief of Experience magazine and contributing editor to POLITICO Magazine Want more Skimm? Sign up for our free daily newsletter Subscribe and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts Skimm'd by Senior Producer and Host Bridget Armstrong. Produced by Alaisha Key. Engineered by Andrew Callaway. TheSkimm’s senior director of audio is Graelyn Brashear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Skin This Listeners, Alex Carr here.
0:05.7	Today, we've got a little something extra for you, the latest episode of our new podcast
0:11.2	pop cultured with the skin.
0:13.5	Every Tuesday, pop cultured digs into the stories we can't stop talking about, from TV,
0:18.7	music, and movies to sports and celebrity news.
0:22.1	This week, all eyes are on the Bachelorette, as the show heads towards the season 18 finale.
0:27.7	And host Bridget Armstrong talked to two entertainment journalists about dating reality
0:31.8	shows, and why we love them, even though they hang on to some pretty outdated stereotypes.
0:37.5	Give it a listen, and be sure to subscribe to pop cultured with the skin.
0:41.6	We'll leave a link in our show notes.
0:43.2	A regular episode of Skin This will be back in your feed on Thursday.
0:47.0	Catch you then!
0:52.3	This week, the latest Bachelorette will get closer to choosing the Maniford Dreams.
0:57.7	Or, at least the Man of Her Casting Dream.
1:23.3	For the first time, since the show premiered almost 20 years ago, the man who
1:27.5	will get that final rose is guaranteed to be a man of color.
1:31.8	This season's Bachelorette made history a few weeks ago when she chose four men of
1:35.6	color as her final suitors.
1:37.2	Michelle Young is Bioratial, her mother's white and her father's black.
1:40.7	And she's the third Bachelorette of color.
1:43.1	And there's been one black bachelor who's also Bioratial, Matt Jane.
1:47.3	The Bachelor franchise has made some progress when it comes to the representation of people
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