No, I Will Not Accept Your Rose

What do you call one man dating multiple women at once while an entire camera crew is

filming it? Reality TV fans call it The Bachelor. I call it garbage.

The series focuses on one eligible bachelor and his hunt to find love amongst a group of 25 – yes, 25 – potential wives. The dating process throughout the shows goes a little something like this: large group dates, one-on-one dates, hometown visits for the final four contestants, overnight dates at some fantasy getaway location for the final three, a meeting with the bachelor’s family for the final two, and then a proposal for the woman he chooses.

However, the bachelor is not required to pop the question. Oh, but how could I leave out the best part? The women who the bachelor does not want to be with are eliminated during rose ceremonies; if you don’t get a rose, you’re gone – heartbreaking, I know.

Why do I find this to be one of the worst reality shows on television? Well first off, it amazes

me how a woman would want to date a man who is perfectly okay with juggling 24 other options

simultaneously. He can have his tongue down a different girl’s throat every other night if he

really wants to, yet the women don’t really seem to care.

It also disgusts me that a man would even want to date that many women, especially when they’re all living in the same household, gossiping about him and everything that goes on. Plus, I don’t understand how you can fall in love with, and then end up possibly getting engaged to, someone who you’ve only known over the course of a couple months.

“That show makes me want to vomit,” said VHS senior The Bachelor hater, Eliza Sniatowski. “It’s honestly so repulsive.” Short, sweet, and to the point.

It doesn’t help that every single time The Bachelor is on, there is a plethora of tweets

and Facebook posts about who should be eliminated or who deserves the ring at the end of the

season.

“Nothing angers me more than when I see my friends constantly tweet about The Bachelor when it’s on,” explained VHS junior Samantha Tusi.  “All of them are obsessed with it, except me, which is just so unfortunate because it’s always being discussed in our group chat.”

But those of us who hate the show  must continue to exist as the minority we are; The Bachelor continues to be a huge hit.