"Millionaire Matchmaker"

The other day I was flipping through the channels on TV and decided to check out "Millionaire Matchmaker" on Bravo. In the show, a matchmaker has men that are millionaires as her clients who pay to be set up on dates with beautiful women. I have nothing against reality dating shows and trying to find love on TV, but the entire concept of this show is disgusting. The men on the show seem perfectly content with dating a woman that obviously only wants them for their money. During the particular episode that I was watching, there were two very old men that only liked to date younger women. One of the men was in his late forties and he had met his previous girlfriend when she was only 18! The matchmaker on the show could not convince the men to date older women, so she set up a one sided mirror so that the men could see the young women and approve of them based on their looks. It was shocking to me that the men had complete control of the situation, as the women could not see them at all. They were able to choose which women they found attractive and decide to go on dates with them. I was appalled by this episode and found the way that the (ugly) men critiqued (beautiful) women that were not "perfect enough" for them to be absolutely ridiculous. As the article, "Beauty and the Patriarchal Beast" explained, television is increasingly casting shows and sitcoms with beautiful women dating ugly men that have complete power and control.