NIH VBAC Conference Live Coverage & The Bachelor Finale

Ok, before I get started on my huge rant about the Bachelor which took me almost a week to compose myself enough after watching to put it into words, I want to touch on the National Institute of Health VBAC conference coming up on Monday. For a moment, earlier this week, there was a glimmer of hope that I would be able to make the 5 hour drive, and join all of you wonderful women. I sat down with my husband and talked about it over dinner, and we just realized that even with all my last minute planning, it simply would not work with our family. Between the childcare issue, to money, and simply having myself be away from the home, kids, and furniture delivery scheduled for Tuesday it just would not work. Being the great man he is, he helped me to be ok with the final decision, and think of alternative ways to participate.

So, my alternative way to participate will be live coverage on my blog. Look out over the weekend for a new tab on the tool bar on the top of the site reading Live NIH, and I will be updating several times a day. Ideally I would like to update after every speaker, but with the children, live stream and the typical Motherly things that come up in a day, that is a completely unrealistic expectation.  But I will cover as much as I can. I hope to also be heavily involved in the twitter coverage. To follow just use the hashtag #NIHVBAC.

Now onto the train wreck we can call the Bachelor Season Finale.  The first thing I want to say is, I am so glad I am not going to hear On the Wings of Love anytime soon or probably ever again (because we know this couple won’t be getting married). No I am not being pessimistic, I am being realistic.  The finally had almost as much drama as the entire season did.

It came down to sweet puppies and kittens Tenley, and the bad girl, Vienna, which I think in the back of my mind isn’t really a girl. And of course in the end, Jake went with his penis rather than what he claimed all season he wanted which was a wife. His family met Tenley first, and immediately everyone loved her, and embraced her. Vienna on the other hand not so much. Jake kind of  “warned” them before hand that she was the girl no one liked, so of course they had a bias.   Before the end of the Vienna meeting with the family, of course they all loved her. Either that or the producers magically made it look that way.  Honestly, her demeanor, and attitude, especially around his family would have earned her a one way trip OUT of my family.

Of course all season we knew that Jake would pick her though, because their sexual connection was more than anyone else clearly had with him from what we saw. I am sure that she is one of the contestants that put out routinely too. I just feel like this show, and the actions of these women show such desperation for a man or to WIN. Because with Vienna, I don’t think it was about finding love, I think it was all about being the last one standing. I am sure like many of the other Bachelor couples, they will split shortly.

While these shows certainly are entertaining for reality TV nerds like myself, as a feminist it bothers me on so many levels.  Women should not be this desperate, and what kind of message are we sending to our daughters with these shows?  I really think every season that goes by, it gets worse and worse.

Where do they find these women?  Mental health facilities?

Anyways, that is really all I have to say about it all.
I am not surprised, I have called the picks the last couple seasons, and it was clear who Jake was going to pick for the past 6 weeks at the least.

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