'Paired', on Antena 3.
Periodista i crítica de televisió
1 min

Antena 3 has premiered Protected, a kind of game show in which celebrity couples engage in small competitions through anecdotes from their lives related to their relationships. The premiere featured former soccer player Joaquín and singer Bertín Osborne. The former was accompanied by his wife, and the latter by his eldest daughter.I have a wide range of descendants", said the artist, joking about his uncontrolled tendency to procreate with young women almost as if it were a game of chance. The program was looking for collaborators to liven up the night and the result was a festival of over-the-top sexist jokes and comments dripping with testosterone, with requests for those who died of mothballs. large and that, since the intervention, when he urinated, the lightning would deviate to one side. program, these protagonists acted as godfathers of a possible date. An anonymous contestant had to choose between two candidates as a potential partner. It was all about sexuality. And it wasn't just about experiences, the program added the visual aspect. joked – or maybe not so much – pretending that he would win one of the two candidates. More than a dating game, it ended up looking like the exhibition of a catalog of women. models as objects. The final choice of one of the women also carried the possibility of betrayal in exchange for money, and the male participant executed.

These types of narratives are nothing new on television, but they are becoming increasingly sordid and disturbing, aligned with ultraconservative ideologies of double standards, which clearly distinguish between the women you have at home – your property – and those you meet on the street.

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