Bachelorette 13 - Rachel Lindsay - SM Media - *Sleuthing Spoilers* Discussion - #5

bleuberry wrote:Wut?!  


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Here's one note about the first episode I didn't share today: none of Rachel's final 4 have intro videos. Don't think that's ever happened.

julychild wrote:Lol. She is soooo happy. That must be extra irritating for the people who don't like her. The criticism will be extra, but those people do not matter.

BachelorBabe512 wrote:@ReneeM IA Rachel won't be able to please everyone.  If she had answered the question by saying I don't know, plenty of people would find fault with that too considering she's the first.  It's a hard line to toe, trying to represent yourself as an individual while people are seeing you as a representative for an entire group.  JMO

BachelorBabe512 wrote:At least 100 if not more.  She was an upperclassmen when I was a freshman.  UT is a huge school, 50k students; but the black student population is small.  Most of us tend to know each other.

julychild wrote:Lol. She is soooo happy. That must be extra irritating for the people who don't like her. The criticism will be extra, but those people do not matter.

moviechicka wrote:I don't like Andi and I like Rachel, but in their jobs women often have to be seen as strong in order to be taken seriously. Andi's turned into arrogance, but Rachel seems like a genuinely confident person. I don't think her answer made her appear "above it all." I think she honestly believes that because of the way the show is historically cast they had to wait for the right person. Could she have just said "I don't know?" Maybe. But she does know just as everyone who was interviewing her knows, but they also know that she can't give the real answer.

Also, there's this very really saying among black women, particularly professional black women, that we have to work twice as hard for half as much. What some see as arrogance is actually confidence. She is bad azz in the best possible way.

And when you are the first at anything, particularly when race is at issue, you often have to be significantly better than anyone else. Nick was an unemployed guy who had been on 3 different versions of The Bachelor. Rachel's a lawyer, daughter of a federal judge, and has a pretty lovely personality.