Re: LOVE IS BLIND Bride Dumps Groom at Altar for Not Being Woke Enough

On 2025-03-11 12:23 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

Why would she wait until she's standing at the altar to bring this up and make
the decision not to marry him?

 

Like most hard-lefties, it's not enough for her to have her beliefs. She has
to make sure everyone knows about them, too, so she can feel morally superior.
She wanted to make a grand show out of how virtuous she believes herself to be
in order to feed her own bloated ego.

 

Can you imagine being married to a person like that? Dude dodged a serious
bullet there.

 I can't even imagine being desperate enough for attention to humiliate
myself on national television reality programming.
 Whose self esteem is that low?
 

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https://torontosun.com/entertainment/television/woke-love-is-blind-star-leaves-match-at-altar-for-not-sharing-same-views

 

. . .

 

One user noted: "Her BS virtue signaling is so transparent. She doesn't care
about any of the stupid stuff she brought up. She just wants to be the centre
of attention."

 Good point
 

"I remember I asked him about Black Lives Matter and I'm no expert, but when I
asked him about it, he was like, 'I guess I never really thought too much
about it,'" she said. Their season was filmed in Minneapolis, where the BLM
movement began following the murder of George Floyd. Carlton was particularly
miffed that Mezzenga didn't have a strong opinion on it because it happened in
their hometown.

 BLM began on social media after Trayvon Martin and (the angel) Michael Brown.
The Ferguson protest pretty much destroyed all the businesses in town.
 

"That affected me," she explained to her family.

 Is it too late to get that treated?
 

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The reality show follows people as they date each other in "pods", where they
can talk to each other by speaker but not see each other as they fall in love.
Once a proposal takes place, the newly engaged couple lay eyes on each other
for the first time, testing if love is truly blind.

 Is this a Canadian-only thing or is it in other countries too?

No idea. I don't watch reality shows from *any* country, including this one.

 Love isn't blind. Men are morons to participate.

Why just men? The whole concept seems equally demeaning to both the men *and* the women involved.
Mind you, I remember a passage in The Gulag Archipelago where Solzhenitsyn mentions cases where men married women sight unseen in the labour camps. Apparently, camps that had both men and women had separate areas for men and women with a tall solid fence between them that kept the men and women from seeing each other. Sometimes, someone on one side of the fence heard someone on the other side of the fence talking their own language - the Soviet Union had a lot of ethnic minorities, many of which did not have Russian as a first language - so a Ukrainian man might hear a Ukrainian woman on the other side of the fence. They would strike up a conversation and, if they hit it off, might eventually get an appropriate clergyman to marry them, still sight unseen. (Lenin and Stalin were both militant atheists so LOTS of clergymen got sent to the Gulag.)
Of course these marriages were fraught with difficulties given that the couple was on opposite sides of a fence. I've read a number of books on the subject and can't recall ever hearing of situations where the new couple would be allowed to be on the same side of the fence during their sentence. Then there's the problem of surviving your sentence. Solzhenitsyn says only 1 in 7 people even survived their sentences. Given the incredible privation involved - dangerous work under deplorable conditions with minimal food, frequently in extremely harsh environments (picture -50 or colder) - even if you survived your sentence, the spouse you'd never seen might not and you might well end up as a widow/widower, never having seen your spouse let alone having consummated your marriage.
In case you're thinking that you could endure a sentence in the Gulag standing on your head that might be possible if you'd been arrested in Lenin's day when the sentences were usually only 2 or 3 years but Stalin was much harsher and soon the norm was 8 to 10 years. By the post-war era it was 25 years. You really didn't have to do much to get one of those sentences either!
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Rhino