Look what a mess we've made of love

The Bachelor is an awful awful show. It pains me to admit this but I actually spent a good amount of time watching this run of the Bachelor (I have not spent more than 2 minutes watching the show before this season). Who thought this show was a good idea? It is brutal. What good comes out of taking a sinlge guy and 25 single girls and then making a game show out of the whole thing in which the winner gets a shot at marrying the guy. Explain to me how this turns out good for anyone!

The girls who don't win: they leave being rejected and felling like they wasted their time, especially the very last one, who spends her last few days on the gameshow wondering if she will be engaged to this guy only to find out she was just like the previous 23 losers, only she got her hopes up more than they did. She probably is the biggest loser of them all.

The bachelor: he meets a woman who will potentially be his wife on a game show and during the process opens himself up to falling in love with multiple girls. He goes an a multitude of potentially romantic dates, kissing every girl he can get his hands and then he is required to send the girls off one by one until he finds the one he wants to be with and in the process he is conditioned to not get too attached to any one girl because you only have so many roses. Sounds like a guy any girl would be lucky to have.

The girl who wins: Lucky her right? I mean what little girl doesn't grow up dreaming of being proposed to in this way, after her future husband arrives at her as his choice by a process of elimination, and then being proposed to on national TV. Then the best part is after all of this happens they get to watch the whole thing together as the show airs. Someone tell me why we don't have a live feed from the lucky couples bedroom as they watch the show as it airs. Just imagine him trying to explain every romantic encounter with the other girls who didn't win to the winning girl. "Hey at least you won, right?"