[Macie Lightfoot]

I really don't understand the idea that San Juan del Sur had little to no gameplay. If you remove, like, Julie, Alec, and Wes and Keith everyone was actually gaming really hard. And even then, Keith was at least trying. Sure a lot of the time it was sloppy and impulsive, but that just made it more compelling and exciting.

Quite frankly, and this isn't me coming at you Joe but more general Survivor fandom, I think a lot of people's main problem with the season is that it's one of the most feminist seasons ever and people couldn't cope with it. They didn't know what to do without their precious long-haired challenge beast and their Best Player Ever alpha who just collected idols, and they all PANICKED when Josh and Jeremy were voted out and declared that the only two people Playing The Game (read: the only two men with overbearing game-centered edits) are now out of it and therefore anyone else who wins isn't deserving, even though the supposed "best players of the season" were the first two merge boots. It definitely doesn't help that Probst and Dalton Ross threw the season under the bus for no reason at all.

I just thought it was really refreshing that we got a group of women who were able to successfully control the game without Probst turning it into a group of sexy sirens using their breasts to lure men in and kill them or a dysfunctional group of catty women who couldn't work together and let the last man standing come out on top. I just think it's incredibly sexist that many viewers and others think that the season had no strategy and no legitimate gameplayers just because the people who ran the game weren't prominent alpha males with gamebot edits.