Leo as Love Is Blind Season 7's Biggest Villain
The so-called feminist turned out to be a jerk
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[Warning: The following contains spoilers Love Is Blind Season 7. Read at your own risk!]
Three weeks ago, when the first batch of episodes of Love Is Blind Season 7 dropped, Leo Baudray was the show's biggest villain. He was extremely rude to Hannah, lied to Brittany, and he kept telling people how rich he was (despite claiming he didn't want someone to love him because of his money). However, after the final Love Is Blind episode was released, someone worse emerged. Leo, you just lost your title; Ramses Prashad is Love Is Blind Season 7's true villain.
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It didn't start that way for Ramses. In fact, for a moment after the second batch of episodes released on Oct. 9, Ramses seemed on his way to becoming a fan favorite. He claimed to be a feminist, was very progressive in his views, and even told Marissa and her friends that you could not separate a person from their problematic beliefs, something fans really resonated with, particularly when Ramses alluded to his Venezuelan roots and his experience with being on the other side of the U.S.-centric narrative Marissa grew up in.
But even though Marissa and Ramses got through a very uncomfortable discussion about her military past – which he did not approve of — other cracks soon started to show. When Marissa, who has rheumatoid arthritis and has been diagnosed with ADHD, explained she didn't always feel well enough for intimacy, Ramses seemed taken aback. Marissa didn't want to use birth control, and Ramses complained that sex with condoms just wasn't "enjoyable."
It all kept piling up until their final conversation. Two days before that, the two had picked a wedding song and cried about how much they loved each other and wanted to get married. However, that would not come to pass. Instead, Ramses called off his wedding to Marissa, telling her that he couldn't see their "energy coexisting in the same space" long term.
Marissa, like the rest of the world watching, was floored. What did that even mean? But Ramses didn't have a reason for breaking up with her, at least not one he could accurately communicate. Instead, it was all vibes and talk about her energy which basically translated to: Marissa was too much.
Ironically, that could have been a valid reason to not get into a relationship with someone. If Ramses had walked away in the pods, or even in Mexico because of this reason, it would have been hard to see but perhaps a little more understandable. Except Ramses didn't do that. No, he let the experiment play out until he and Marissa were right on the brink of getting married – and then decided he couldn't go through with it.
For the cameras, however, Ramses did a good job of pretending. He had a "feminist" reputation to maintain, after all. Phrases like "I don't want to hurt you in the future" gave an "it's not you, it's me" vibe. But Marissa's revelations that Ramses didn't just want to break up, refused to consider staying together without getting married, or even considered dating her afterward made it clear that the problem was always him. And perhaps he knew it all along.
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Love Is Blind is, in many ways, a ridiculous concept. You have to form a connection with someone without ever seeing them and decide that you want to marry them without knowing how the physical aspect of a relationship might come into play. Then, you only have three weeks to see if your lives are compatible before you walk down the aisle. Some hesitation is understandable. But Ramses' reaction makes it seem like Marissa was somehow responsible for the accelerated timeline, and that just isn't the case. Ramses signed up for Love Is Blind, he just conveniently forgot what show he was on as soon as things got scary.
But fear isn't what makes Ramses the villain of this season, and perhaps one of the biggest villains in the Love Is Blind franchise. No, it's the fact that this man, who played at being super progressive when it came to absolutely everything but his partner's well-being, waited until a few days before he and Marissa were supposed to walk down the aisle to tell the woman he supposedly loved that she was just too much for him. Because that isn't a revelation you just have. That is something you always felt and you decided not to share.
Ramses hurt Marissa, badly. And in truth, he probably also saved her. There doesn't seem to be any scenario where the man who didn't want to have kids right away, but refused to wear condoms, was upset that his fiancé wasn't feeling well and didn't want to be touched, and didn't offer any sort of sympathy for Marissa's choices and growth in regards to her military past could ever be a good husband. Marissa truly dodged a bullet. But that doesn't make Ramses any less of a villain.
He made his own choices. He stuck to his "beliefs." And like Ramses himself said, you cannot separate a person from what they believe.
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