Why "The Bachelorette" is such a bad idea
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The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 6 August 2018
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Dennis Informed, and this is the Daily Article from Monday, August 6, 2018. |
| 0:08.2 | It seems like a comment on celebrity news every morning. For instance, Patrick Stewart, quote, |
| 0:13.4 | stunned fans with his weekend announcement that he will play Captain Jean-Luc Picard in a new Star Trek series. |
| 0:19.7 | Russia has named U.S. actor Stephen Seagull |
| 0:21.8 | its special representative for Russian-U.S. humanitarian ties. And two elderly men in Germany |
| 0:27.6 | escaped their nursing home to attend a heavy metal rock concert. They were eventually discovered |
| 0:33.3 | and escorted from the festival. We might think tonight's Bachelorette life finale fits into the same |
| 0:38.8 | category, amusing but less than relevant to real life. Here's why we'd be wrong. The Bachelorette has |
| 0:45.7 | been on television for 15 years. You probably know the premise. A woman is presented with a group of |
| 0:51.3 | men who want to marry her. Various dates and activities narrow the group |
| 0:55.4 | down to a final three contestants. She then spends time in the so-called fantasy suite with each of them, |
| 1:02.0 | no cameras allowed. She usually has sex with each of the three men. The bachelorette then |
| 1:08.0 | narrows the group to the final two and chooses the winner and the finale. |
| 1:12.7 | So much is wrong with this show. The idea that people could choose their life partner on the basis of contrived events in front of cameras is implausible in the extreme. |
| 1:22.8 | The Bachelor, which began in 2002, has produced only one couple that's still together. Only six couples from |
| 1:28.8 | the bachelorette are still together. The sexual message is especially troubling. The show |
| 1:34.3 | teaches our children that having sex with someone before marrying them is both normal and wise. |
| 1:40.5 | After all, our culture asks, how can you know if you're so-called compatible? |
| 1:45.3 | Sex before marriage is so endorsed by Hollywood that one of this season's bachelorette contestants was shamed for his virginity. |
| 1:53.0 | Colton Underwood, a former football player who spent time with several NFL teams, |
| 1:57.5 | was ridiculed by other contestants and last Monday night's Men Tell All episode, |
| 2:02.6 | the reason he has chosen not to have sex until he finds what he calls the right heart. |
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