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Saturday, March 11, 2017
Week Six: Response 6.3
Does Pozner feel women fare better in The
Bachelorette, where females are the ones who have the power to
choose the lucky man? Outline the
differences from The Bachelor.
Pozner clearly conveys the differences between The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. The Bachelor is the true Cinderella fairytale, for all twenty five women they believe they are going to fall in love with prince charming. The women are showered with the most romantic date experience showered with diamonds and dresses for extravagant dates. The show is “telling female viewers that the measure of a man’s love can only be found in the gift receipts of his wallet”. (Pg. 42) The women can be seen as gold diggers for enjoying their time spent with their possible fiance, while the bachelor’s are the male heroes sweeping women off their feet. Bachelor’s believe that they are chosen as based on their “personality and character”. (Pg. 71)
Compared to the Bachelorette the selection process is different as Fleiss states, “character can’t help a chick look good in the hot tub”. (Pg. 71) Although the women may feel special that they were chosen as the bachelorette they really “buy into cultural beauty myths that devalue their worth as individuals, as partners, as lovers”. (Pg. 72) Even though the women is in power of deciding of who she wants to take on dates she’s seen as materialistic and needy.
Pozner wants us to understand that the Bachelor and Bachelorette are different in many aspects. Men are seen as the prince charming’s that can shower a women with everything she’ll materialistically need in life rather than having an actual connection. The men aren’t completely ready for an actual relationship, instead they remain unattached and unemotionally connected as if they know that a true connection won’t occur. When in fact, women are going in with open hearts thinking that they’ll end up with their true love. This causes problems for viewers seeing that the men are seen as so great while the women seem to be making choices off of appearances and how men treasure them.
Pozner does not feel women fare better in The Bachelorette. The show is humiliating to begin with because all of The Bachelorettes have been contestants on The Bachelor. The world already knows who these women are, what they look like in bikinis, and how they behave. The reason why these women get chosen to be on The Bachelorette is because the network knows that she will provide a good show through embarrassing characteristics or behaviors. While the show makes it seem like women have the power to choose a lucky man, in reality she is still humiliated. She is generally portrayed as a slut when she dates multiple men even though it is a main part of the show. When the same situation in The Bachelor happens, he is portrayed as charming. In The Bachelor, the women are scheming against each other, are catty towards each other, and are fighting to win the man’s attention. In The Bachelorette however, the behavior of the men is not the same as the women. The men seem like they are friends with each other and bond over the fact that they are pursuing the same woman. In The Bachelorette, the men comfort each other when they lose challenges but women in The Bachelor are happy when other contestants lose challenges. When the women are eliminated in The Bachelor, the show always films the woman crying or begging to stay. In The Bachelorette however, the men say things like “well I didn’t like her anyway,” in order to put the humiliation on the woman instead of the man himself. This puts women in a lose-lose situation in regard to both the bachelor and the bachelorette. In the preview to The Bachelor, the narrator asks, “who will get their heart broken next,” while in The Bachelorette, the narrator asks, “who will make the cut,” or “who will get sent home.” This shows the humiliation of women while the men are shown to not really care or just think of women as a game or commodity. When the women join the bachelor, they have to leave their friends and family and must be willing to leave everything behind and relocate for him. The Bachelorette is different in the sense that the man does not have to pack up and leave to stay with the woman, but she moves for the man she chose to be with.
In the show The Bachelor, the lucky man is able to choose a future wife from a pool of twenty-five women. These women share one thing, besides the bachelor himself on their “exclusive” and “private” dates, is the fact that their physical looks are for all to see and focus on. These women all fit the ideal of the ideal beauty type in western society, as being tall, thin, and light-skinned. As Pozer describes, she does not feel as if women fare better in The Bachelorette, although they have the power to choose her “husband”. One major flaw with this is the fact that The Bachelor himself is that he is a new contestant, whereas the Bachelorette is the runner-up from the previous Bachelor season. Meaning that the Bachelorette was someone that was already seen in the previous season, and the Bachelor is a new person the producers casted for that new season. Another difference is the money shot that is so sought after within the females in The Bachelor, especially when a woman loses a challenge or is eliminated; almost as they must be assured and affirmed in all aspects by the Bachelor himself. Whereas in The Bachelorette, the male contestants do not have the same built-up climax for a money shot, instead when they lose a challenge or get rejected in which eliminates them from the show; the male contestants affirm themselves by stating they did not feel rejected at all nor feel any emotion but relief to leave the show. The female contestants must show sadness, rejection, and humiliation in order keep the climax of the show, whereas the male contestants show zero emotion of defeat. To add, there is not better fare just because they can choose a male contestant they want to marry, the Bachelorette still lacks the power that the Bachelor holds; all by rejecting women, and making them show just that emotion, and being the new guy on the block, where the Bachelorette is the opposite of that “choosing”.
ReplyDeletePozner clearly conveys the differences between The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. The Bachelor is the true Cinderella fairytale, for all twenty five women they believe they are going to fall in love with prince charming. The women are showered with the most romantic date experience showered with diamonds and dresses for extravagant dates. The show is “telling female viewers that the measure of a man’s love can only be found in the gift receipts of his wallet”. (Pg. 42) The women can be seen as gold diggers for enjoying their time spent with their possible fiance, while the bachelor’s are the male heroes sweeping women off their feet. Bachelor’s believe that they are chosen as based on their “personality and character”. (Pg. 71)
Compared to the Bachelorette the selection process is different as Fleiss states, “character can’t help a chick look good in the hot tub”. (Pg. 71) Although the women may feel special that they were chosen as the bachelorette they really “buy into cultural beauty myths that devalue their worth as individuals, as partners, as lovers”. (Pg. 72) Even though the women is in power of deciding of who she wants to take on dates she’s seen as materialistic and needy.
Pozner wants us to understand that the Bachelor and Bachelorette are different in many aspects. Men are seen as the prince charming’s that can shower a women with everything she’ll materialistically need in life rather than having an actual connection. The men aren’t completely ready for an actual relationship, instead they remain unattached and unemotionally connected as if they know that a true connection won’t occur. When in fact, women are going in with open hearts thinking that they’ll end up with their true love. This causes problems for viewers seeing that the men are seen as so great while the women seem to be making choices off of appearances and how men treasure them.
Alexis S.
Pozner does not feel women fare better in The Bachelorette. The show is humiliating to begin with because all of The Bachelorettes have been contestants on The Bachelor. The world already knows who these women are, what they look like in bikinis, and how they behave. The reason why these women get chosen to be on The Bachelorette is because the network knows that she will provide a good show through embarrassing characteristics or behaviors. While the show makes it seem like women have the power to choose a lucky man, in reality she is still humiliated. She is generally portrayed as a slut when she dates multiple men even though it is a main part of the show. When the same situation in The Bachelor happens, he is portrayed as charming. In The Bachelor, the women are scheming against each other, are catty towards each other, and are fighting to win the man’s attention. In The Bachelorette however, the behavior of the men is not the same as the women. The men seem like they are friends with each other and bond over the fact that they are pursuing the same woman. In The Bachelorette, the men comfort each other when they lose challenges but women in The Bachelor are happy when other contestants lose challenges. When the women are eliminated in The Bachelor, the show always films the woman crying or begging to stay. In The Bachelorette however, the men say things like “well I didn’t like her anyway,” in order to put the humiliation on the woman instead of the man himself. This puts women in a lose-lose situation in regard to both the bachelor and the bachelorette. In the preview to The Bachelor, the narrator asks, “who will get their heart broken next,” while in The Bachelorette, the narrator asks, “who will make the cut,” or “who will get sent home.” This shows the humiliation of women while the men are shown to not really care or just think of women as a game or commodity. When the women join the bachelor, they have to leave their friends and family and must be willing to leave everything behind and relocate for him. The Bachelorette is different in the sense that the man does not have to pack up and leave to stay with the woman, but she moves for the man she chose to be with.
ReplyDeleteChristine N.
In the show The Bachelor, the lucky man is able to choose a future wife from a pool of twenty-five women. These women share one thing, besides the bachelor himself on their “exclusive” and “private” dates, is the fact that their physical looks are for all to see and focus on. These women all fit the ideal of the ideal beauty type in western society, as being tall, thin, and light-skinned. As Pozer describes, she does not feel as if women fare better in The Bachelorette, although they have the power to choose her “husband”. One major flaw with this is the fact that The Bachelor himself is that he is a new contestant, whereas the Bachelorette is the runner-up from the previous Bachelor season. Meaning that the Bachelorette was someone that was already seen in the previous season, and the Bachelor is a new person the producers casted for that new season. Another difference is the money shot that is so sought after within the females in The Bachelor, especially when a woman loses a challenge or is eliminated; almost as they must be assured and affirmed in all aspects by the Bachelor himself. Whereas in The Bachelorette, the male contestants do not have the same built-up climax for a money shot, instead when they lose a challenge or get rejected in which eliminates them from the show; the male contestants affirm themselves by stating they did not feel rejected at all nor feel any emotion but relief to leave the show. The female contestants must show sadness, rejection, and humiliation in order keep the climax of the show, whereas the male contestants show zero emotion of defeat. To add, there is not better fare just because they can choose a male contestant they want to marry, the Bachelorette still lacks the power that the Bachelor holds; all by rejecting women, and making them show just that emotion, and being the new guy on the block, where the Bachelorette is the opposite of that “choosing”.
ReplyDeleteKim S.