Bachelorette 13 - Rachel Lindsay - SM Media - *Sleuthing Spoilers* Discussion - #5

reason wrote:Is it bad I keep re-watching this commerical.  She and her badass self?

Carine wrote:Upcoming Yahootv interview.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BUSnBKbDTZp/

Also I think this girl bumped into Rachel in the bathroom lool and managed to get a pic.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BUTBVTeAQo1/

Siah wrote:

moviechicka wrote:I don't like Andi and I like Rachel, but in their jobs women often have to be seen as strong in order to be taken seriously. Andi's turned into arrogance, but Rachel seems like a genuinely confident person. I don't think her answer made her appear "above it all." I think she honestly believes that because of the way the show is historically cast they had to wait for the right person. Could she have just said "I don't know?" Maybe. But she does know just as everyone who was interviewing her knows, but they also know that she can't give the real answer.

Also, there's this very really saying among black women, particularly professional black women, that we have to work twice as hard for half as much. What some see as arrogance is actually confidence. She is bad azz in the best possible way.

And when you are the first at anything, particularly when race is at issue, you often have to be significantly better than anyone else. Nick was an unemployed guy who had been on 3 different versions of The Bachelor. Rachel's a lawyer, daughter of a federal judge, and has a pretty lovely personality.

As a black woman in the IT field. I cannot agree more.