AMAZING RACE 36 (originally 35) **LIVE SPOILERS** (Members Only) > AMAZING RACE RACE 35 (originally run as 36)
TAR 35 (formerly called 36): Bitch, Moan & Squeal Here! *POSSIBLE SPOILERS!*
Brannockdevice:
--- Quote from: kyleisalive on September 17, 2023, 12:31:38 AM ---
--- Quote from: Brannockdevice on September 16, 2023, 11:53:14 PM ---
--- Quote from: kyleisalive on September 16, 2023, 11:22:33 PM ---Stacking the deck to aim for a FF win instead of letting it happen on its own doesn't demonstrate strength and doesn't support women. There's no equality to setting things up differently to accommodate specific genders over others. FF teams should win on normal, balanced seasons. And more than that, if a FF team doesn't win, it's a lousy take that the season is lesser because literally anyone else won on their own merit.
When Will and James won TAR32, people on these forums complained that they shouldn't have. IMO that's an idiotic take no matter what way you cut it. TAR has had winners of countless backgrounds and relationship types. If someone can't enjoy the show because it doesn't unfold the way that they don't want it to, I'd suggest creating a fan-fiction instead. Or watch something scripted. You're not going to get what you want from this show every time. Life's not fair; womp womp.
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Correct, life is not fair. And that’s exactly the point of all this - to make it fair.
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That's a bit absurd in my opinion. Redressing a perceived imbalance by putting other people aside to do it isn't equality; it isn't feminist; it isn't helpful for fairness. It enforces the idea that the only way women can win on this show is if you have to give them extra help, only reinforcing that they can't do it themselves.
What you're suggesting isn't doing what you think it's doing. It insists that women need to be coddled to victory.
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"Redressing a perceived imbalance by putting other people aside to do it isn't equality" so by this very logic, the race should be 100% physical, and only be run by the strongest, most physical and athletic teams. After all, having puzzles or memory challenges would be unfair to jocks because they aren't smart. In fact, let's no longer cast elderly couples. Dave and Margaretta, Peggy and Claire and Bill and Cathi should have never been cast because they aren't physical. Maybe we should change the race so that it is one episode only and whoever can lift the heaviest boulder can win the one million dollars.
kyleisalive:
--- Quote from: Brannockdevice on September 17, 2023, 01:36:47 PM ---
--- Quote from: kyleisalive on September 17, 2023, 12:31:38 AM ---
--- Quote from: Brannockdevice on September 16, 2023, 11:53:14 PM ---
--- Quote from: kyleisalive on September 16, 2023, 11:22:33 PM ---Stacking the deck to aim for a FF win instead of letting it happen on its own doesn't demonstrate strength and doesn't support women. There's no equality to setting things up differently to accommodate specific genders over others. FF teams should win on normal, balanced seasons. And more than that, if a FF team doesn't win, it's a lousy take that the season is lesser because literally anyone else won on their own merit.
When Will and James won TAR32, people on these forums complained that they shouldn't have. IMO that's an idiotic take no matter what way you cut it. TAR has had winners of countless backgrounds and relationship types. If someone can't enjoy the show because it doesn't unfold the way that they don't want it to, I'd suggest creating a fan-fiction instead. Or watch something scripted. You're not going to get what you want from this show every time. Life's not fair; womp womp.
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Correct, life is not fair. And that’s exactly the point of all this - to make it fair.
--- End quote ---
That's a bit absurd in my opinion. Redressing a perceived imbalance by putting other people aside to do it isn't equality; it isn't feminist; it isn't helpful for fairness. It enforces the idea that the only way women can win on this show is if you have to give them extra help, only reinforcing that they can't do it themselves.
What you're suggesting isn't doing what you think it's doing. It insists that women need to be coddled to victory.
--- End quote ---
"Redressing a perceived imbalance by putting other people aside to do it isn't equality" so by this very logic, the race should be 100% physical, and only be run by the strongest, most physical and athletic teams. After all, having puzzles or memory challenges would be unfair to jocks because they aren't smart. In fact, let's no longer cast elderly couples. Dave and Margaretta, Peggy and Claire and Bill and Cathi should have never been cast because they aren't physical. Maybe we should change the race so that it is one episode only and whoever can lift the heaviest boulder can win the one million dollars.
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I think you’re reading what I’m saying and taking the opposite message. I’m saying throw *anyone* in, but don’t stack the tasks to align more with typically-female-strong activities and don’t stack the cast with women to push a FF win. Doing that would imply women need production meddling to win and can’t do it on their own merit. And that is problematic.
RachelLeVega:
Just now seeing the cast info to surprise myself and did not realize that in addition to 90-min. episodes, I'm gonna have to memorize a 13-team ensemble.
Please don't let it be a Scramble in the first leg again. :faint: CBS really shows no mercy for my phalanges.
Parovic:
Well at least the race is back to global route
not just S33/34/35 single/dual continent route tbh
ianthebalance:
I’ve been thinking about the casting more men than women on average and it made me remember a strange casting pattern: consistently casting same sex men couples but very rarely ever same sex women couples. That also contributes to the more men than women teams on the show
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