See, this is why I don’t watch reality TV (and neither should you)

“The Bachelor” Jake Pavelka: the face of inanity

I’m usually the very last person on this Earth who would ever comment on reality TV shows and the pathetic, simpering goings-on showcased within, but this report is just too silly to bear. I’ve never quite understood what it was about these sorts of vacuous, inane and perfectly pointless television shows that attracts the focus and passion of so many audiences, and reports like this one don’t help me understand any better.

While it's okay for The Bachelor to date a dozen women or so at a time, it's not okay for one of them to date someone else. Namely, a show staffer. On last night's episode of The Bachelor, we saw Rozlyn Papa kicked to the curb by host Chris Harrison for "inappropriate" behavior with a producer.

"This is the first time I have been cheated on (to my knowledge) and man, it sucks," writes Bachelor star Jake Pavelka in his People blog today. "I had started to develop feelings for Rozlyn and that's why I had given her a rose. ... I was so hurt by both of their decisions, but I reminded myself that I still had 14 amazing women there for me, so I composed myself and moved on. […]"

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Meanwhile, Papa maintains that the whole scandal was trumped up by ABC to boost ratings. She tells Entertainment Tonight she did not have sex with a show producer. "I absolutely feel betrayed by the show. ... They want the ratings, and that's what they're getting."

Now, I just know I’m not the only one feeling a mixture of contempt and hilarity in reading such nonsense. What the hell did she expect? That the whole farce wasn’t for the ratings? Did she, or do any of the other mindless bimbos on that show, honestly believe that it’s a concept based on the premise of a serious relationship? For fuck’s sake, the whole point of the show is to gather up a harem of smiling airheaded girls for one rich guy to lavish pleasure and sweet talk while they swoon in his arms, until one of them gets picked to be his One True Love^TM. Talk about setting a fine example for other girls and women.

And as for the moron himself whining about the girl having a relationship with some other guy … I’ll tell you this: anyone who honestly feels sorry for a guy who has dated more girls in the past few years than can fit in most small cities, and who currently has about a dozen or so girls he can screw around with to his leisure, and who suddenly feels so vewwy sad and hurt that one girl chose to get her rocks off with another dude … I pity you for gross intellectual incapacitation.

How this sort of obviously fake, scripted, facile inanity manages to hold anyone’s attention spans for more than thirty seconds is as beyond me as are Quantum Physics.

But, then again, considering how the majority of people are stupid, mindless zombies who prefer to fantasize about things they’ll never have rather than enjoy what they do have … well, nevermind, then.