Ready for love

Since my TV hates me and won't tune in Fox there's absolutely nothing other than garbage on TV Tuesday night (with the exception of NCIS, but I'm not caught up on any CBS shows because they suck and don't put their stuff on Hulu). And at the end of the day I just want to sit around and numb my brain a bit, watching TV was the best option it seemed. So I watched the Voice purely because Adam Levine is a sexy piece of man. At the Maroon 5 concert mom and I went to we actually discussed his sexiness at great length and debated whether we would lick his body after he performed a concert. Even from where we were sitting we could see that he was pretty sweaty. I believe the consensus was that yes, we would still lick him. 

But I digress... because I've had ample TV watching time I have seen previews for the new show "Ready for Love". In the past I have watched and enjoyed watching the Bachelor/Bachelorette. I will tell you that I primarily enjoyed seeing the neat places they travel to. You may however be thinking to yourself that I probably watch it because I'm a sap for romance and/or I am drawn to the dramatics. To which I will not respond as to avoid incriminating myself. 

So, I did sit on the couch Tuesday night watching the lead singer of Plain White Tees meeting 9 women specifically chosen for him by some of the top names in matchmaking. A bunch of girls who were coached on how to interact with this potential suitor, how and what to say, what vibes you should give off, so on and so forth. As if it wasn't bad enough that the 9 of them went on a date with him on camera for national broadcast, they had to follow that with critique from the matchmakers. Nit picking everything the girls had done wrong on the date. 

I find myself singing matchmaker matchmaker make me a match, while I'm writing this, but the show reminds me more of "Honor to Us All" from Mulan. Specifically the lyrics "Scarier than the undertaker we are meeting our matchmaker" seem appropriate. I guess there has been a lot of history of matchmaking, and since moving to DC I've found that it's not easy to meet men, but does that mean I'm completely naive to think that you can just meet someone and fall in love and get married and live happily ever after? 

The obviously silly thing about the Bachelor franchise is that the success rate of their relationships is dismal. Besides that I can't imagine truly and honestly falling in love with someone in a superficial environment that the show creates and while either dating hoards of other men or while he is dating hoards of other women. Although I can't see dating more than one person at a time in any circumstance.  I guess that basically sums up why you'll never see me on that show. But I am curious to see whether the relationships borne from this new show will actually last. They are still creating an unnatural environment, but with successful matchmakers supervising it, will it be different? Either way I think I'll likely still come out from watching the show feeling like Mulan... Maybe I'll pretend to be a man and save the Emperor, then someone will want to marry me.

I feel like I need this beer for when I'm watching any sort of reality relationship show