To add to the good points made in this article, I think it’s also possible that they could be doing the two lead thing after it worked well recently with Joe Millionaire?

Imagine being such an asshole that production has to water down your villain edit, normally it’s the opposite. 

From what other contestants have said in the reunion episode and in interviews, Shake got a pretty good edit during the season and was even worse than he seems on the show. 

Yeah, it’s a tough balance. I’m in an intuitive eating support group and one of the people who runs it is celiac. One of the things she stresses is that needing to cut an ingredient out of your diet because of an allergy or intolerance should not mean having to give up eating certain foods or food groups, because…

Seriously, and it’s like, the food vendors in the subway stations or on the trains are almost always just selling snack foods, not whole meals. Like, no one is going to go out of business because I decided to buy a bag of churros in the subway station near my office, because I wasn’t planning on going out of my way to…

I read an article on Buzzfeed in which four past black contestants were interviewed and one the things a few of them brought up were that they were so anxious about not being stereotyped, not wanting to do anything that could have them be perceived as “the angry black woman” that it distracted them from focusing on…

This is true, though in some of these cases, I think the show got lucky that the frontrunners didn’t have any racist scandals in their past like Rachael did. As far as I know, the guys on Tayshia’s season were a really good group. Sure, some were obnoxious, but not “we were racist and the Internet has the receipts”…

I think Lauren and Cam on Love is Blind touched on it a bit? Like them being an interracial couple wasn’t necessarily the main focus of the narrative, but it was certainly part of it. They were one of the sweetest couples on that show, and it was very easy to root for them. 

They need to create confusion/not make things clear, because unlike the books that are being pulled, people actually buy Cat in the Hat.

Yeah, like I do wonder if there is any footage that the producers shelved that would cast Katie in a worse light, since if she is the next Bachelorette, they’d want to make her look as a good as possible, like when they didn’t air a fight between Vanessa and Rachel during Nick Viall’s season since one of them was the…

The cattiness is definitely something that the produces try to play up for drama, but it definitely has seemed worse during Matt’s and Peter’s seasons compared to previous ones. I feel like in earlier seasons that I watched that even if there was occasional cattiness or maybe a few people didn’t get along with each…

On the one hand, I definitely get their frustration. But on the other hand, many if not most of the Bachelors/Bachelorettes figure out who their top 1-3 people are on the first night and basically spend the rest of the season stringing everyone else along in order to fulfill their contract. So they’re not really…

Yeah, like I wouldn’t say that her voting record is something we should celebrate or admire, but it’s not surprising and at least she’s supporting the right candidate now?

To be fair, I think the idea that people become more conservative with age is either a conservative myth (as in conservatives love saying, “oh, you’ll agree with me when you’re older and wiser!”) or at least not universal. There are also plenty of people who become more progressive after getting out from under their…

Yeah, they probably couldn’t really ask the people who actually live in the mansion to go find somewhere else to stay for a few months in the middle of a pandemic like they normally do. 

Also, even with certain groups being more at risk for severe COVID, I’ve seen enough stories about athletes and seemingly healthy, young people with no pre-existing conditions either dying from or getting bad complications like heart damage that I think the message should still very much be, “your good health is not a…

Yeah, or if not racist shit directed at The Bachelor, at other contestants potentially. Like in Rachel Lindsey’s season where they brought on a dude with some very racist tweets that the producers should have been able to find to vet him out, who could be kind and nice to Rachel, but behind her back was antagonizing…

Yeah, and though it wasn’t mentioned in this article, a group of fans from a Facebook group I’m in created the Bachelor Diversity Campaign, which included a petition demanding having the next Bachelor be black, having a certain amount of contestants be BIPOC, hiring more BIPOC people to work behind the scenes, vet the…

I’m not saying I think that, I think it’s much more likely that she’s a regressive Evangelical. I’m just not going to say that’s an absolute without more solid proof.

Yeah, I mean there is always the possibility that she’s one of those Christians who are just good at picking and choosing what parts of their religion they stick to and just ignore the cognitive dissonance. Are there rumors or any confirmation that she has expressed bigoted views?