A pattern of male leadership and female passivity in heterosexual romance is woven into the formula on the popular TV show The Bachelor.
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Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
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Casual Academic, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Charles Sturt University
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Research Fellow, La Trobe University
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Vartan Gregorian Post-doctoral Fellow in Science Communication, University of Pennsylvania
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Ph.D. Candidate in Communication, The Ohio State University
