The Bachelorette

This new bachelorette being featured is a young 20-something dentistry student (don’t let the heading fool you, the full description on the website says dentistry-student). She’s cute, young and not settled into a career just yet, perfect bachelorette right? These demographics would never work on “The Bachelor.” The featured men are always handsome, at least late 20’s or early 30’s and have a well-established career with an attractive title attached. These are men that can be the ultimate success and appealing husband. As for this bachelorette, Ashley, she is the ultimate package for the soon-to-be housewife. She’s young. This means she is in the prime of the childbearing age range. She has yet to graduate from college with her dentistry degree, meaning she can still be persuaded to become a housewife. The fact that she is in college means she still has her intelligence. I think when television shows have a premise like this, we take a step back in the evolution of how we portray different genders and or races in television. The women that actually need help finding a man are the female CEO’s in their 40’s and 50’s that have too much on their plate to get a date. Yet for some reason this show continues to feature people that already have appealing qualities to those people they attract and don’t need help.