Let's Keep it Real About This Bachelor "Scandal" To Some Back-in-the-Day Drama

Certainly, the news of the Bachelor dumping his fiancee for the other woman from the show was buzzworthy. Many, myself included, are guilty for remarking of its scandal. We are the same people who probably drool saliva-scandal when we think about the whole Brangelina affair. But it seems like maybe we as a society today are far more conservative about affairs of the heart than in the past.

Case in point. I ran across this article about Elizabeth Taylor, which made me think of her, natch. Now this woman was married 8 times, married her good friend's husband because her own husband passed away, and then openly had an affair with Richard Burton, which forced them to divorce both their spouses. Did people make a big deal about her affairs? Did they say mean things about her in the press? You betcha. But seriously, her crimes were far worse than any starlet's I know of today, and the public seemed far more forgiving and able to move on than us today!

Maybe this is because the Internet has made it so much easier to prolong scandals. Maybe we now see celebrities less in the superhuman light than we once did and are not so forgiving. I just can't help but notice how unrelenting the public is in its negative opinion of celebrities gone wild versus our glamorous but gallivanting big names of the past. What do you think?