The Survivor Care That Was Not There
The unfortunately common experience told by a contestant on The Bachelor, and the driven citizen on a mission to change it
[Trigger warning: this piece discusses sexual assault and rape]
“The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters. It does.” — Mona Eltahawy, Headscarves & Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
On January 28th, 2019, nearly 6.4 million people tuned into ABC’s hit reality series, The Bachelor, now in its twenty-third season.
In the previous week’s episode, we watched tensions boil over between former friends and Miss America pageant contestants, Caelynn Miller-Keyes and Hannah Brown.
Hannah tells The Bachelor Colton Underwood, a handsome former NFL player who now runs a Cystic Fibrosis foundation, that Caelynn is deceiving him, that she has two different personalities, that she isn’t there for the right reasons — the typical smack-talk Bachelor fans are used to.
