Question about offensiveness of new Survivor

[jilln]

I'm not sure what I think about it. I don't watch the show, but didn't they do men vs. women? Was that offensive to people too?

I'm interested in everyone's point of view and reasoning.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. jilln, when one"measures" offensiveness, one has already endorsed the

premise of the potentially offending issue.

It's just a matter of "level" of offensiveness.

Anyway, welcome to DU, I'm assuming you've made a lot of posts in a short period of time. Not sure, since your profile is disabled.:hi:

MKJ

[idgiehkt]

2. the men vs. women seaon was so BORING.

I started watching it but then I stopped because it was so lame. The women that they had on that season were annoying and pathetic (even more than usual).

This ethnic thing, I don't know. I may watch when it comes on OLN after it's all over.

[Haole Girl]

3. I never really watched the show

I especially didn't care to watch it after I realized it was staged, and it was revealed actors/actresses were used for some of the scenes in at least one episode (they called them "stunt doubles"). Apparently, where people we swimming in a river. I can't believe it's still on. But, I guess people don't care if it is reality TV or actors who make it appear that way. :shrug:

[NaturalHigh]

4. I've never watched a single episode.

The previews were enough to bore me out of my wits.

[Quantess]

5. It sounds pretty offensive, yes.

I never liked when the teacher made boys vs girls competitions. It sends the message that men and women are pitted against each other and want the other gender to lose. White vs Black would have been beyond the pale.

I don't know much about this Survivor season, but it sounds bad.

[elocs]

6. Watched the first season, then had no use for the lying & backstabbing.

It seems like I liked to watch something on CBS right after Survivor, so I would manage to catch the last few minutes of each episode. I can't really differentiate one season from the next since the first one.

[SpiralHawk]

7. Survivor Vs. Odyssey

While Survivor seeks to divide people by race, Odyssey seeks to unite them by spirit -- and it is real, not some made up TV hooey.

http://www.8thfire.net/

[idgiehkt]

8. don't get me wrong

I like Survivor the show and watch all of them, I just didn't watch boys v. girls because the people on it got on my last nerve from the beginning. I love these kinds of reality shows, because they show social dynamics and that is something that has always troubled me so much. Alot of people despise them but I don't. What I think went wrong with boys v. girls was they took it and made it about something other than every man/woman for him/herself and instead it became about gender and that completely lamed it out for some reason. And that will probably happen this season too. People don't bond well over physical characteristics in tight spaces like that. In the end it's going to be about which personalities work well together, which people are physically and mentally strongest and which are most manipulative and cunning and shrewd, whether or not the people of same ethnicities play on a team together or against each other. Because even if they are on the same team they are in fact playing against each other. I just dread this because I know things will be extrapolated from this that shouldn't be and it might be used to reinforce stereotypes, and people who are considered racial minorities are going to have to worry about that possibility whereas the 'white' people probably aren't going to be sitting there going 'what if it looks like white guys can't jump because of something we do on this show?' or whatever. But people who are told they are deficient because of their race will have extra pressure because of that, which is an unfair disadvantage to have. It think it's tacky and a distraction and it will probably take away from the game. They might get more of the Nascar demographic watching it this time though.