The Bachelorette: Another One Bites the Dust?

This season's installment of "The Bachelorette" has come and gone and I still find myself wondering about Jillian's sanity for not choosing, that fine as wine, Kiptyn. Ah but who can dictate love. Depending on who you ask, Jillian's love fest with her "soulmate" Ed Swiderski is due to hit the skids faster than you can say, Microsoft Systems Analyst or whatever, his highly demanding job is. Anywho, as it turns out, Ed is an alleged louse. I mean even if he isn't as big a louse as the tabloids are portraying him, he's at least acquainted with the neighborhood where louses live. Us Weekly has been favoring us with daily installments of Ed's sordid doings. This brings me to some observations about "The Bachelorette". God love me, I've never had 30 men vie for my affections before so I'm at a disadvantage there. As my dating history will bear out, I really can't say I know that much about men. But like anyone without all the facts, I'm going to weigh in anyway. Feel free to send comments, give me bad press and otherwise let the world know who I am with loads of bad publicity, if you don't agree with my opinions.

Who are these guys?

Women all across the planet are lamenting the fact that they can't find one decent guy who wants to settle down, but ABC can find a whole 30. A whole 30 who are ready to commit to one woman for the rest of their lives. 30 dudes, guys, bros ready to settle down. It boggles the female mind. Still trying to get my head around it. But wait there's more. We're talking about 30, pared down from 100's if not thousands. I am no rocket scientist; just in case you were curious, but what are the chances? I mean really, what are they?. Let's dig a little deeper. We're not talking about 30 run of the mill everyday, in between jobs, bottom of the barrel, funky T-shirt, guys. We are talking about successful, well groomed, athletic, low body fat, guys. Men with names like Tanner and Kiptyn. And this season had two Tanners. Who knew there were two Tanner's in the world, much less two ready to settle down and take a relationship to the next level.

It's the competition that does it

A lot of women feel really charged up because the men seem so eager. Really eager men, have always kind of weirded me out. I'm from the "we don't really know each other that well, so you might want to slow your roll" school of dating. As we have already established my dating pedigree or lack thereof, I won't belabor the point. A guy who is too eager always makes me wonder, what's wrong with him. While I won't go into it here, I do have some concrete information that, may suggest, this is a pretty important question to ask. Well, the guys on "The Bachelorette" are in a veritable big balls out, testosterone fest from the word go. The woman in question could be a football, a baseball or some other sort of brass ring. It becomes far less about securing her love and more about denying her love to someone else. These guys, yes even earnest old Jake, are all caught up in the emotion of winning. Jillian or [insert name here], whoever, she might be is the recipient of swinging d$%k syndrome.

I'm Ready for my Closeup...

As I am not a math prodigy, either, I don't know from probabilities and percentages. However, my meager women's intuition tells me that some of those thousands of guys who sign up for "The Bachelorette" are lying. Lying about what, you might ask. Who knows? You name, it's more than likely a lie. I'm no negative Nelly. I believe in the power of positive thinking. I also believe in the reality of practical truth. I'll go out on a limb and say, most of the guys who are signing up are looking for a chance at Warhol's illusive 15 minutes. And why not? Reality shows seem to have put the brass ring of stardom within the grasp of every regular Joe or Jane. The fact that the pay off may be travel to some exotic locales and the chance to take in some manly competition and wine and dine a woman on someone's else dime; who wouldn't do it?. Heck, if I was a guy. I'd do it?

Where is the Love?

This is not to say that people don't fall in love. Obviously people have fallen in love on reality TV and a few have actually set out with that in mind. That is the issue at the crux of all of this. Intention. Wagering that the vast majority of people who get involved aren't doing so with an intention set for love, leads one to wonder why we place such stock in the outcome in the first place. We wait each season, hoping against hope that just one more time we'll get another honest to goodness Trista and Ryan story. But I guess it's a lot like real life. The real thing only comes around once in a blue moon. Whether Ed and Jillian will weather Ed's current storm of bad press remains to be seen, but here's hoping.

Sources:

UsWeekly.com - Bachelorette Winner Complained Jillian Harris Wasn't His Type

The Bachelorette - ABC