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Andi Dorfman Speaks Out On Slut-Shaming After ‘Bachelorette’ Fantasy Suites: ‘There’s A Double Standard’

By Victoria Miller
Published on: 11:01 PST, Jul 26, 2016

Andi Dorfman has had it with the double standard on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. In a new essay for the Hollywood Reporter, Dorfman, who starred as the franchise’s 10th Bachelorette, said the double standard starts on the first night with the limo meet-and-greet.

Andi Dorfman said when she was a contestant on Juan Pablo Galavis’ season of The Bachelor, he had 30 women to choose from, but when Andi won The Bachelorette gig the next season, she only had 25 male suitors. Dorfman said “the sky’s the limit” for the male stars of the show.

But the double standard really kicks in toward the end of the season, with the fantasy suite dates. In her essay, Andi revealed that she was shocked by the backlash she received on social media after she chose to spend the night with two of her final three guys. It didn’t help that her runner-up, Nick Viall, publicly called her out for being intimate with him and then accepting a proposal from Josh Murray.

“After that aired, I saw clips of national news anchors on TV calling me a slut. Verbatim. On live national television, calling me a slut,” Andi wrote. “You never see them say that about the Bachelor.”

Andi went on to point out that all of the male leads in the franchise sleep with multiple women, yet they’re not labeled in a negative way.

“Almost every Bachelor has sex with everyone he goes into the fantasy suites with…And yet we as a society will go so far as to call a woman a slut for having sex with two men that she’s been dating. Two men whose families she’s met, who have professed their love to her and two men she has feelings for. And, somehow, having sex with them becomes grounds to call her a slut.”

Dorfman did go on to clarify that the fantasy suites dates don’t happen back to back. In fact, the overnight dates are filmed over a two-week timespan. Still, the Bachelorette beauty explained that it doesn’t really matter because she did what any woman (or man) her age would do in that situation.

Andi went on to say that she, Kaitlyn Bristowe, and JoJo Fletcher have had to become “the example” and go through slut-shaming after their primetime trysts.

“We give the Bachelorette the same opportunity by giving them this lead role and having men vie for them, but it’s not done unconditionally. There’s strings attached, and we see it with the fantasy suites and the issues of sex. The male lead is never called a man-whore. But when a woman who is in the same exact situation does it, she gets labeled a slut and it’s all of a sudden newsworthy.”

Andi also had some advice for future Bachelorette stars: It’s a lose-lose situation. Dorfman says the female leads are “vilified for being open and honest,” but those who are not honest are labeled as fake.

Nick Viall, Andi Dorfman’s rejected runner-up, has already apologized for slut-shaming Andi on a blog post for Patheos, but he added that he felt their encounter was “inappropriate” because Andi knew she was choosing Josh in the end.

“Either she was unsure about our relationship or – worse – she was certain she was choosing Josh,” Viall wrote. “I felt as if she didn’t respect my feelings and that she should not have had sex with me.”

After Viall blabbed their private fantasy suite business during the After the Final Rose special, Andi told the Huffington Post she nearly walked off the stage.

“I just felt like, again, [it was] just kind of classless,” Andi said. “That’s supposed to be private and I don’t know what purpose you’re accomplishing by doing that. ”

Take a look at the video below to see Andi Dorfman getting called out after her overnight date with Nick.

[Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for Rolling Stone]

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