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# The idea was to create literature which would reflect the experience of the proletariat - the worker. The fundamental problem with proletarian literature is that it fails to challenge the reader to think independently. In the show, "Joe Millionaire", contestants are quickly labelled by editors in a manor which allows the viewer to easily construct a social reality within the confines of the "Joe Millionaire Chateau".
             The shows winner, Zora, was made to seem the underdog from the start. She doubts she will ever make the final cut, though she finally does. Along the way she exhibits signs of self-loathing. She compares herself with the other women competing, finds herself not as thin or as pretty. When so much meaning is placed upon the way women look, and thinness is equated with some kind of success it isn't surprising that editors focused on her insecurities about body and appearance. Yet at the same time, the show's emphasis on Zora's insecurities seemed to be reinforcing a representation of women, yet again, as neurotic and narcissistic, reinforcing and encouraging a notion of women pitched together not in solidarity but in competition.
             Zora's adversary Sarah, however was at the opposite end of the spectrum.
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             Sarah was seen as the confident, cosmopolitan, ultra caddy blond character. Amid roomers of her previous involvement in pornography, Sarah was portrayed as the shows "loose women", a title which, in the end served only for her to come in second place. The editors at Fox seemed to be sending a message to the viewers of North America that good girls finish first.
             The Women of Joe Millionaire, although willing participants, do not actually have any say to what happens to them, romantically or publicly for that matter. In Carole Pateman's "Sexual Contract", the idea of relationships as forms of contracts are explored.# Pateman Views women as getting the short end of the stick in the actual contract formulation.