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show, much like women were treated before they underwent some measure of liberation over the past few decades.

Who would watch a show featuring 1 gorgeous babe and 25 hunks? The men could care less. I can say this with complete authority because I am one of them. A majority of women, once they checked out the hunks on the first couple of episodes, would largely tune out. No fun watching men stumbling and fumbling around trying to catch the babe. Men don't plot and strategize like women; they just zoom in for the kill. No one likes to watch this in real life, much less on primetime television. Plus, men typically don't fight over a woman like a woman will over a man. I'll get some disagreement over that point, but so be it.

Much of this keys on the fact that men are far more visual than women. The entire sex industry is founded on this fact and wouldn't exist if it weren't true. Television is a medium that thrives on the visual phenomenon; otherwise we would just listen to the radio. The visual effect was so obvious on "The Bachelor" that it slammed you over the head. Nothing like a bevy of gorgeous babes parading around in bikinis and evening gowns to grab a man's attention. It got mine. Alex was stranded on Fantasy Island and he knew it. So did the producers.

To me at least, it's ironic that many women I've met relish the idea of stealing another woman's boyfriend more than they do finding someone that's already available. Perhaps it's the idea that desiring someone that appeals to someone else ratifies the effort required to win him over. The planning and execution of this strategy builds confidence and self-esteem and gives her a sense of achievement. In the case of Alex, he was available to all of them, but the principle was the same win his affections at the expense of the others.

Men, on the other hand, possess no such complex social behavior. They are pure predators who will seek out any woman who appeals to them whether she is taken or not. The goal is the kill, not the strategy and execution. No one wants to see the kill; where's the challenge in that? The whole idea of one woman romancing all those men simultaneously is difficult for me to comprehend. I'm sure that some women are capable of it, but I haven't met many that I believe could do it. Men are capable of things that women aren't, and vice-versa. Not all of them are necessarily good for a stable relationship. This may be one of them.

This is show business and by its very nature it feeds on our

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