When reality tv began to dominate in the early noughties, The Bachelor was one of the earliest examples of the genre. The concept was simple, film a guy looking for love and the ten or twenty girls vying for his attention. People loved it, and the show was mentioned in the same breath as Survivor and American Idol, the other reality juggernauts of the era. Like the other two, the Bachelor has spawned several copy cats and as such it has had to adjust to survive.

However I did not realize how much it had adjusted until I read a Sports Guy column about it a few days ago. Apparently when the Bachelor is down to the last three women, he as an "overnight date" with them.

Yeah, you read that right, an "overnight date"

As one of the Sports Guy readers points out, at this point you have to sleep with the Bachelor to stand a chance of being picked winner, which off course they all do. Now you can imagine why the Bachelor is for this, after all he gets to sleep with three different women that he finds attractive. What I can't figure out is why the women will be into it.

Don't get me wrong, I know that people do anything to be on TV even to sleeping with people (the famous casting couch and all that). However the "aim" of this show is to produce "long term" relationship, and I seriously doubt that a long term relationship can survive with the knowledge that the dude slept with two other women she knew and was competing with. And if the lady did sleep with him and didn't win, she is going to feel like crap.

So it seems a lose lose for me, but I guess that's why I'm not a candidate for reality tv (well and I'm also not a woman)

P.S. I put up the comment verification to stop the flood of spam sorry for the inconvenience to any commentators.

Someone recently asked me what I think of the phrase

"No matter how educated a woman is, she will still end up in the kitchen".

Apparently as a socially liberal individual I was supposed to disagree with the phrase.

However thinking about it I realised that both people who are strongly wedded to women's rights and those of a more patriarchal bent would agree with the phrase.

The women's rights crowd will say that the above statement is true as it is the result of the compromises that women have to make in their lives no matter how educated.

The patriarchy crowd will say that the above statement is true because all women must put their families first no matter how educated.

I say finally something they can both agree on :D