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TAR 35 (formerly called 36): Bitch, Moan & Squeal Here! *POSSIBLE SPOILERS!*
Brannockdevice:
--- Quote from: Traveldude1 on September 16, 2023, 11:18:14 AM ---What's odd is the strange obsession with wanting more F/F teams to dominate the race. If anything, people should be more irritated that co-ed teams win the majority of seasons these days. The last M/M team to win was Will/James (2.55) and the last true alpha male winners were Dave and Connor (2.17) in S24. Get over yourselves
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I want more FF to dominate the race because I want more women to dominate. Period. We live in a world that puts women down at every possible chance, and seeing women succeed in every area of life, including on The Amazing Race, is the only thing I want to see.
Traveldude1:
It's not the show's fault that it's a difficult, physical, and a taxing adventure around the world that happens to favori co-ed and M/M teams. To get more F/F teams to dominate, you would have to slant the casting and tasks in a very unfavorable way. Don't blame casting because most F/F teams lack the strength/endurance to be competitive with the very top teams. Whine away about an all M/M Final 3 for the first time in history.
Joberio:
--- Quote from: Maanca on September 16, 2023, 12:05:55 AM ---At least it's not 3 of your standard alpha teams. It includes a deaf parent, and a Black M/M team has very rarely made the final 3. But you're not wrong.
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If I'm being honest . . . that's the only silver lining. That they're three men's teams you don't normally see get that far in the race. But aside from that, I'm inclined to agree with Brannockdevice.
I ♥ TAR:
I am also not fan of all-male F3 but we are still getting 7 legs with 3 FF teams which happened only in TAR5 & TAR22 so that's something too looking forward to I think.
Brannockdevice:
--- Quote from: Traveldude1 on September 16, 2023, 04:11:17 PM ---It's not the show's fault that it's a difficult, physical, and a taxing adventure around the world that happens to favor co-ed and M/M teams. To get more F/F teams to dominate, you would have to slant the casting and tasks in a very unfavorable way. Don't blame casting because most F/F teams lack the strength/endurance to be competitive with the very top teams. Whine away about an all M/M Final 3 for the first time in history.
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I'd like to engage with this for a bit.
Setting aside the assumption that women cannot excel at physical tasks (which I emphatically disagree with), if that is truly the case then why bother casting women in the first place if they are destined to fail? Also, why would it be unfavorable to have the tasks favor the witty and clever? Take Kim and Penn. If anything that season should have seen Ryan and Dusty cruise to an easy victory.
Furthermore, I think you overlook a point I made that the race repeatedly favors men season after season. There are more MM teams than FF teams in this season specifically, but this is also the 21st such season. I don't think it is a coincidence that in the three seasons that produced FF winners, two of them had more women cast than men in the first place.
I'll leave off with saying that it isn't "whining" to take a firm stance against sexism and misogyny.
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