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Dear ABC, 'The Proposal' Is Superficial And Degrading To Both Men And Women

It doesn't make sense and gets everything wrong about love

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If you watch "The Bachelorette" (which if you don't you need to catch up because it's starting to get good) then you probably have seen at least a dozen commercials for ABC's new show "The Proposal."

From the commercial, it's understandable that one would be interested in this show just to figure out how it all works. The commercial says in just an hour someone will propose. You're probably thinking "how in the world does that work?" And if that's the case, why does Becca have to go through so many episodes before she gets proposed to?

Since I had been seeing so many commercials, my friends and I decided one night to watch it and see what it was all about. We were hopeful that it would be a new show to watch. That it would be somewhat interesting. But after the first episode, we all agreed that it was an hour of our lives that we will never get back.

"The Proposal" is a beauty pageant for love. It's superficial and degrading to a certain degree.

The idea is that a man or a woman is sitting behind a structure where they cannot be seen but they can see everyone. During the episode I watched, a man was behind the structure and several women were presented to him. He would choose which ones he wanted to move forward.

It was like pageant speed dating except only one side gets to pick and at the end of it, you get engaged. Crazy, right?

Anyway, they go through the whole hour and the guy keeps picking girls and eventually, he's revealed and he proposes to one. But my thought is what if she meets him and then the girl he proposes to decides she doesn't want to get engaged? Does he propose to the other girl?

There are so many things wrong with this show and so many reasons for it to be canceled. ABC needs to own up to the fact that the show just wasn't a good fit and cancel it.

The first round is based primarily on who he finds the most attractive and the second round is beachwear. Love and marriage are not based solely on these superficial factors.

The show prays on older men and women who still have not been able to find love and draws them in with the idea that they will match you with your soul mate. Personally, if my soul mate is picked the way these people are picked, I'll choose my non-soulmate any day.

Even Bekah, from Arie's season of "The Bachelor," made fun of the show on her Twitter account using the same words to describe it as my friends and I did.


https://twitter.com/whats_ur_sign_/status/10089525...


I'm interested to see how many couples actually stay together after the show to see how successful this "match-making process" really is.

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