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Originally Posted by Jigs

Many "threatening" women have been voted off early, yes, but what about David Samson? Garrett Adelstein? Jason Linden? Garrett was booted for his physical prowess when they could've ousted J'Tia. Jason from this season was also booted over Lauren.

In a lot of ways, women are more powerful than men at Survivor because the Spencer Bledsoes of the world are very transparent whereas the Parvati Shallows will mist you right up until the F4 when they win immunity and you realise they made it to the FTC and you're screwed.

Of course that doesn't excuse people like Mari Takahashi randomly being voted out for being a threat, or Molly Byman getting blindsided because the mere thought that she may potentially run the game at some point was too much for the rest of her tribe. But other women have had roles in these blindsides too. People like Molly and Mari were not ousted by Men Only clubs. Castaways like So Kim were blindsided early in an instance where another powerful woman led the charge (Carolyn).

Ultimately, I know the statistics of women reaching the FTC and winning pale in comparison to the male castaways we've had, but people like Kim, Denise, Natalie Anderson and ofc Parvati have managed to be successful even when they were painted as huge strategic threats OR after a long trajectory of adversity where they could've easily been voted out at any time (Denise is the biggest example of this).

I agree with what you said about the F4 firemaking twist and the EOE twist being put in place to prevent Probst's favourites from being robbed. However, to claim that it is inbuilt for the purpose of only benefiting men is not only untrue but kinda a discredit to women on your part for assuming they don't also have an ability to make fire or win a challenge????????

Yup, all of this