This Time, the Winner of The Bachelorette Was the Bachelorette

Hannah Brown, Bachelorette, was the undoubted winner of TheBachelorette. kvanaren

Photo: John Fleenor/ABC Last night, at the end of one of The Bachelor franchise’s two-night, multi-hour finales, Hannah Brown was treated to rapturous applause from the live studio audience. She stood alone. Her season of The Bachelorette was over, but Hannah was not in an official couple, she wasn’t engaged, and she wasn’t even dating someone.

The reason for that comes down to Hannah herself, because she’s hardly the first woman on this franchise to be subjected to a batch of absolute wieners. The show has routinely filled out its cast with dubiously eligible guys, men who are racists or potential sociopaths or just totally underwhelming drips. Hannah’s season was no exception; the poor woman sampled more flavors of toxic masculinity than she did sponsored bites of Halo Top.

In the first instance, during the “Men Tell All” episode, Hannah spoke to the camera to issue an apology. She said that she is in part responsible for why this season spent so much time on Luke, an unrepentant jagoff whose manipulative use of Christian ideology should be held up as a case study for emotional abuse. “I just want to say, Bachelor Nation, I am sorry,” she told viewers. “I’m sorry for Luke … being on our television screens for so long. It’s my fault. A lot his, but I did it.

All of these actions — the podium moving and the insistence on not being shamed for having sex, the direct-to-camera address and the ownership of this season’s story — then culminated in Hannah’s position as the season’s hero. Rather than being successfully matched with one of the contestants, the ostensible goal of The Bachelorette, her heroism came by vanquishing the idiots, by sussing out their lies and falsehoods and insisting on her own personhood.

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