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The 'used goods' narrative

The 'used goods' narrative

'Love is Blind' dramatizes a man's angst over falling for a single mom and a divorcée, two women who had a life before him.

Feb 15, 2024
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Love is Blind’s producers have arrived at the “used goods” narrative.

It was inevitable, I suppose. This dystopian reality-TV experiment romanticizing traditional heteronormative marriage gets its dramatic fuel from women failing to meet wifely expectations, and those failures often circle around their sexuality. The show has al…

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