Culture Diary: The Bachelor and the Myth of “Getting There”

Jill Gallagher
4 min readMar 18, 2021
Photo by Matt Botsford on Unsplash

Watching this season of The Bachelor has been brutal. More so than usual, even. But what did I expect from a deeply racist and misogynistic franchise that cast the first Black Bachelor nearly 20 years after its start, only in response to a public outcry following the murder of George Floyd in 2020?

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Jill Gallagher

Editor & writer. I'm a chain reader who also enjoys shopping and cheese.