Bachelor in Paradise just took a giant step forward for LBGTI representation on mainstream television.

…But in a matter of seconds, it took a huge leap back.

When Alex Nation chose Brooke Blurton for her single date, the first same-sex date inBachelorhistory, it should have been cause for celebration. While only a segment of the LBGTI community – it should have provided a shred of hope for the future of the community’s representation on not onlyThe Bachelor,but the rest of prime time reality TV. Perhaps, even, paving the way for a same-sex version of the program.

Instead, it merely gave fuel to the tired, and downright offensive, straight male trope of festishising bisexual women, disparaging those who identify so as though they exist purely for male entertainment.

Thanks to the problematic comments of Paddy Colliar, who leapt to the opportunity to sexualise the romance blossoming between the Brooke and Alex, a moment that should have been monumental for Australian television was tainted.

It leads us to questionwhythis man was given a soapbox by the network.

“I hope there’s oil and like massages and that and that we get to watch it back,” Paddy said to the group following Alex’s decision.

“That’s hot. That’s actually hot.”

But he wasn’t done there with the “locker room” rhetoric of so many men before him.

Speaking directly to the camera, he later added: “I’d love to be a fly on the wall for those two. You know… you can pause live TV now. I’d love to pause it on that.”

“Mate I’m just telling it how it is,” he laughed.

“I’m just telling it how it is…we’re all thinking it.”

Precisely no one was thinking it, but Twitter did share one thought following his slimy outburst.

That Paddy should be voted off the island. Stat.

Here’s how viewers reacted:

I once accidentally ate a fly that was in my morning coffee but paddy has out-grossed that experience Thank you for coming to my ted talk #BachelorInParadiseAU

— we live in a society (@hannahspants) April 16, 2019

All of Australia at Paddy currently.. #BachelorInParadiseAU pic.twitter.com/UWhU9KuuuS

— AMY ⭐️ (@amyjane_76) April 16, 2019

Paddy. Douche. #BachelorInParadiseau pic.twitter.com/eFzdddXKZq

— Matt Baseley (@MattBaseley) April 16, 2019

paddy women do not exist for ur consumption gtfo #bachelorinparadiseau

— Julia Kittelty (@julia_kittelty) April 16, 2019

If Paddy was that fly in the wall he wanted to be. #BachelorInParadiseAU pic.twitter.com/zsRiSSXwSv

— Jennifer (@jeeen_n94) April 16, 2019

Can we cancel paddy now please. #BachelorInParadiseAU

— Jess Wilson ☀️ (@JessBethWilson) April 16, 2019

Giving air time to Paddy’s disgusting voyeuristic spiel is how you know this is isn’t a genuine representation of queer relationships for the right reasons #BachelorInParadiseAU #sorrynotsorry

— Melanie Jones (@MelSpellsTells) April 16, 2019

Thats not how it is, women aren’t there for your amusement paddy..

#BachelorinParadiseAU

— calmlonewolf (@calmwhitewolf) April 16, 2019

Paddy…is very gross and no, absolutely not ~everyone~ was thinking they would like to fetishise the two women going on a date? Get in the sea fam it’s literally right there. #BachelorInParadiseAU pic.twitter.com/LKKiQlSOFb

— Eliza Barr (@ElizaJBarr) April 16, 2019

Wow Paddy, I had no idea women only date each other as entertainment for men. #BachelorInParadiseAU

— Helena Dominish (@helenaalouiise) April 16, 2019

no one: straight men around bisexual/gay women: i WiSh i WaS a fLy On ThE wAlL!!!! tHrEeSoMe LaDiEs???!!2) #BachelorInParadiseAu

— adrianne (@adriannerachel_) April 16, 2019

REALLY? REALLY?? We have 2 women going on a date for the first time and it’s Paddy who gets a say? Pandering to every cliche? Fuck off. #BachelorinParadiseAU

— Jules Monaco (@jules_monaco) April 16, 2019

Annnnnd this is why we don’t like Paddy #BachelorInParadiseAU

— Gabrielle ???? (@Gxbriellemxry) April 16, 2019