Fat Chicks Welcome on FOX’s More To Love
Posted by KAT in More to Love, The Bachelor, The Biggest LoserMarch 30th, 2009, 04:27 PM
First America’s Next Top Shorties and now THIS!
Why I oughta! FOX exec Mike Darnell is teaming up with Mike Fleiss, executive producer of The Bachelor, to bring us, the drooling masses, More to Love, a new dating-competition series “for the rest of us.”
Think The Bachelor meets The Biggest Loser, except no one intends to lose any weight. The series casts a grip of “curvy women” who will compete for the affections of one man, being described as both a “Kevin James type,” and “a single guy with a big waist and an even bigger heart.”
THIS is what the two geniuses behind this show look like, in case you were wondering. And here is what they say about their show:
“For six years it’s been skinny-minis and good-looking bachelors, and that’s not what the dating world looks like. Why don’t real women — the women who watch these shows, for the most part — have a chance to find love too?”
HEY! Quit condescending! You! Stop! You think us plebeians just sit around all day on thrones of bacon, drinking solid-chocolate goblets full of lard, wishing love would find us?
Now, I appreciate the sentiment, Mikes, but COME ON! Though I suppose we can all agree that some women have curves, I’m not sure the world’s dating pool (and the world’s dating shows!) should be segregated into buckets of “people” and “fat people.”
AT THE END OF THE DAY, AREN’T WE ALL JUST PEOPLE, MIKES FLEISS AND DARNELL?!?!
Even as an attractive lady who could win any season of The Bachelor wearing a mask and a fat suit and possibly one of those chill vocoder devices Stephen Hawking uses, I’m annoyed. I can see the exploitation already!
So many fat puns and cottage cheese thigh-related tears. Ugh.
No one will watch this show, FOX, you big fatty. Quit it.
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March 30th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
People will watch it, though. There will always be an audience for this kind of shit.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
I’m glad someone else is ranting about this. It is horribly patronizing - “For six years it’s been ..good-looking bachelors,” implies that to be heavy is to be unattractive. I hate how More to Love is promoted as a new reality tv concept that shows more acceptance of larger shapes when, obviously, the producers have a long, long way to go to attain awareness and acceptance. The idea that “hefty” belongs only with “curvy” is like saying black should date only black or white date only white. Fortunately, in true reality, things don’t work like that. (Also, the host looks like Emme. I could be wrong, but if it is, I’m really disappointed that someone who has made so much headway for plus-sized models in the fashion world would stoop to this level.)
July 21st, 2009 at 12:32 pm
A big heart, and even bigger arteries.