R.I.P. Desiree
AshLee and Lindsay fans rejoice after Desiree's brother costs the 2-1 favorite her rose.
For those who didn't watch, Desiree's brother showed up to the family dinner looking like he came straight from a multi-year stint at the L.A. County Correctional Center and then promptly declared that he didn't trust Sean. As a fellow older brother, I sympathize with being protective of a younger sister, but his logic about not wanting Sean to break Desiree's heart was a bit off. Whether Sean eliminated Desiree last night, or a few weeks from now, her heart would be broken by an elimination. It's not like this was Episode 1. A woman doesn't sign up to be on The Bachelor in 2013 lest she knows what she's in for.
Give the girl a chance. The further she got, the greater the likelihood of her being the next Bachelorette. Maybe her brother wanted to blatantly cost her the rose so she wouldn't look back at the experience and blame herself, but I don't give him that much credit.
Desiree is not free of blame. Based on her brother's appearance---tattoo's covering his right arm all the way down to his fingers---and vernacular---"let me holla at you"---he was clearly a dumbass and she should have had the sense to speak to him before dinner and make sure he didn't embarrass her any more than his appearance already would. I'd imagine if the brother had shown up looking a bit less threatening and calmly explained to Sean that a very low percentage of Bachelor relationships tend to work out and therefore he was naturally skeptical of their relationship and protective of his sister, I think Sean would have respectfully disagreed, vowed to prove him wrong, and thought no less of Desiree. But that's not how it went down.
(And I hate to be the extremely nit-picky asshole who has no right to be nit-picky, but I think Desiree has an ever-so-slight case of cankles---which of course most men would overlook, but Sean is not most men.)
On to the handicapping.
Ashlee - 5-2
Pro's: her looks, shared Texas heritage, they're both preacher's kids, and she clearly loves him and would be ready to settle down and start a family tomorrow
Con's: all of their conversations seem to be about how much she loves Sean. Watching her say "I love you" and then watching him not respond in-kind makes me cringe (it makes me cringe just to type it)
Lindsay - 5-2
Pro's: Sean clearly has fun with her and seems to laugh the most with her
Con's: Perhaps this experience is showing me that I am more judgmental about bad tattoos than I ever knew because I just can't get around those tats. It demonstrates a lack of sound judgement. (And whoever does her makeup should be fired --- and if she does her own makeup, the person who lets her go on tv with that makeup should be fired (someone should be fired.)) And I thought the whole dressing-up-in-army-clothes-and-doing-exercises was very ill-timed. The guy had just drank a couple of beers and ate cupcakes, and then she was going to make the motherfucker do pushups and situps? (Poor judgment, but makes sense coming from a girl with big wrist and foot tattoos.)
Catherine - 3-1
Con's - Catherine's sisters came a couple of steps short of saying she was bipolar and completely uninterested in commitment
The water got a bit muckier for Sean this week. He lost the woman who may have been his best match; Catherine is appearing crazier by the minute; the abundance of "I love you"s from AshLee is nothing short of troubling (I can see her being the type who flips out whenever her boyfriend talks to an attractive woman for more than a minute); and is he really going to marry the girl who came out in a wedding gown on Episode 1? It's a tight battle.
Speaking of tight, we'll have a better handle on things after the overnight dates next week. (I just watched the behind-the-scenes special and the host pretty much asked Sean whether he planned on having sex with the women on the overnight dates -- and Sean replied with something to the effect of "a gentleman never tells.") (Not to get too graphic, but I imagine Sean has an abnormally large penis. My friends with large penises say that not all women can handle them equally. This can matter.)
See you next week.
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