The Bachelor

Since currently my life consists mostly of sleeping and watching TV, I have taken in my share (or perhaps more than my fair share of) TV re-runs.

Also since the TV seems to lack a remote control, I usually don't bother with changing the channel. When I am in such a situation, I try to pick a channel that usually has shows that I like. Being that my TV heart pretty much lives for "Sex and the City", I decided upon the Cosmo channel.

Along with the fabulous re-runs of "Sex", and other things such as "Friends", "Charmed", and various others, this channel also runs "The Bachelor".

Now, we have all heard of this program. One rich, supposedly attractive man watches as a slowly decreasing number of ditzy women fight over his heart (money). This would all be fine and dandy if the lucky guy wasn't apparently looking for a wife.

A wife! A life-long love to share his hopes and dreams with, have children with, so on, so forth. "Where is the problem?" many would say! Well, let us see...

15 women who have been pre-selected based on their attractiveness agree to go on a television show where they will spend a set amount of time living together, all the while fighting each other incessantly hoping to win the heart of a man they all literally just met.

Sure, for the women, it's really no loss, no matter what happens. They have a shot at a rich guy, and even if not, they still get to basically spend vacation in some fabulous house, drink wine, play in a hot tub, etc. If this is your thing, (superficial relationships and drunken partying with women you just met) then why the hell not, right?

But what about this (poor?) sucker of a guy? Is he completely ignorant of the fact that all these women came here to meet some rich guy? None of them knew who he was ahead of time. They all claim that they came on the show to hopefully meet their future husband, but how did they figure that one?

"Hey, there's this TV show with a rich guy on it, he's probably the one for me, I bet!"

Unless he is completely stupid, he knows very well that they are all gold diggers, whether or not they all claim to have a "deep connection" with him. So what is he really looking for? If he truly is looking for a wife, like he claims, then I pity him deeply. He's young, not horrible looking, and seems like an OK guy, so why does he need to have a big (elaborate?) TV show to help him get women to date him? Also, not only is he so desperate to find his soul mate that he resorts to a cheesy TV show, but he is willing to overlook the fact that everything, from the women's feelings to their breasts, is falsified.

On the other hand, maybe he really isn't looking for "the one". Maybe, like most guys, he gets great enjoyment out of watching a bunch of pretty women struggle desperately for his attention. Maybe, like a lot of guys, he likes the fact that he can make out with a different woman everyday, and none of them will get mad and key his car, Carrie Underwood style.

Maybe, after all, he is looking for a wife, but not the kind you lay in bed with all day, just to talk and eat pizza, but the kind he can hang on his arm at company benefits, who can shut her mouth and look hot on demand.

People argue against gays and lesbians getting married because they long to protect the sanctity of marriage, but don't they realize that it's the straight people ruining it? I'm not gay, but I do believe that marriage should be for love, whether it's between opposite sexes, or the same. Brittney Spears can get married for 48 hours and no church going folk protest outside her house. Aren't things like that, and things like

"The Bachelor"

the ones really destroying the sanctity of marriage, after all?