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What is missing from this season of “The Bachelorette”
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Before getting into the drama of The Bachelorette, you’re going to want at least one glass of wine. I would recommend a cheap and light bottle that can easily be chugged, just so we can match the attitudes of all the contestants’ drinking habits on the show. The first few weeks of this season are one…
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Will reality TV ever be the same?
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Save for a few riveting episodes of Jeopardy, we, the general public, have been denied our regular dose of reality television. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the vast majority of film and television productions have been shut down or postponed. And with no vaccine in sight, it raises the question, will reality television ever be…
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Keeping Up With the Kardashians is coming to an end
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After twenty mind-numbing seasons, Keeping Up With The Kardashians is coming to a fitting end. It seems as though the family believes they can make their money elsewhere, exploiting teens across the internet rather than through television. I felt filthy and desheleved doing research for this piece—only now am I truly ashamed of my search…
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Love is Blind: eyesore or worth the watch?
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If Ted Mosby was a reality show, you’d have Love is Blind. It’s a Netflix original — a label that has officially lost all its credibility — about literal blind dating. Contestants of both genders are each thrown into a conjoining room, separated by a sheet of stained glass. The idea is that, without the…
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Padding the path to menstrual equity
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Menstruating individuals spend an average of 2,535 days — nearly seven years — of their life on their period, and Canadians will expend up to $6,000 over the course of that time on menstrual products. The push for menstrual equity, which refers to the provision of equal access to period products and furthering the improvement…
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