Bachelor Pad Contestants May Change Kids Lives in a Bad Way

Thinking of only a few of the upcoming Bachelor Pad 2 Contestants, I began wondering at the impact of “real people” and their bad behavior on their future family lives.  When you have a bunch of people vying for money and love for all the world to see, it gets ugly.  Some may live to regret their participation.  Much the way some will lose their jobs (or possibilities of a job) once an employer sees an ill-advised drunken photo posted on Facebook.  Those instant gratification app buttons can come back to haunt you.

Jake Pavelka

I am disappointed that the network is inviting Jake back to the show. He was in that strange, robotic, grinny way even more disturbing than Bentley on Ashley’s Bachelorette season.  I felt sorry for Vienna when we all saw the relationship meltdown post engagement in a public venue, but she is back for more.  These contestants will forgive anything if they get a chance to be on TV again!  When really, they should be sent back to obscurity.

Bentley What’s His Name- The One With a Little Girl

For Bachelor Pad 2, they are making it nearly impossible to avoid drama of the ugliest sort by putting three sets of exes in the house.  I won’t be surprised if Bentley ends up being the “mystery man” for the pad…and I sadly understand this- ratings, ratings, ratings.  We like to watch these types of characters on nighttime drama (and some of you like those types on soaps).  But we also forget that this is a “real” person who is doing lowly, hurtful things (he has a young daughter) for all the world to witness.

All aboard, the Tacky Behavior Train is Leaving the Station

This Icky crowd uses their discount train tickets to infamy.  The question I have been asking myself for a while is: what happens to these people later on?  Their kids can watch their parents acting in a way that they would never want to see their own child act (or be treated).  This isn’t the same thing as seeing your actor-parent’s awkward early career Jello-Pudding-Pop Commercial.  They will see their parent acting like a bad human in order to gain something cheap.  And if hurting others purposefully is normalized for these kids, what kind of future behavior rationalizations will they be making?