TheDailyParg wrote:
> The New York Blade
>
> Battle of the sexes
>
> By BRIAN MOYLAN
> Dec. 17, 2004
>
> PLENTY OF GAY and lesbian fans of "Survivor" were disappointed
when
> lesbian castaway Scout Cloud Lee, who made the cut to the show's
final
> four, did not win the top prize during the final episode of the
show's
> ninth season last Sunday, Dec. 12.
>
> After Eliza Orlins was voted out, Chris Daugherty, a 34-year-old
> highway construction worker from South Vienna, Ohio, won the final
> immunity challenge and ousted Lee in favor of going head to head for
> $1 million with Twila Tanner. He eventually won the prize.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

> What was shocking was that a man won. Not that men haven't won in
the
> past (remember Richard Hatch from the first season?) but this year
the
> women dominated.

Who has the million dollars again?  Who?

> "At the beginning, Scout and Eliza, they started talking about how
no
> women's alliance made it to the final four and I knew right then,

That you would try what's failed over and over again, thinking of
course that you could mak it work.  Hey stupid, if you do what you're
doing, you'll get what you're getting.

> that's what I wanted to do," says Ami Cusack, the show's other
lesbian
> cast member.  Lee, 59, a rancher (as well as a singer and author)
from
> Stillwater, Okla., agrees.
>
> "I thought, women have never been able to form an alliance and
stick
> to it," she says.

And they still haven't.

> "I stuck with my alliance. I kept my alliance with
> Twila. I think I'm the only one who kept it all the way."

A lot of good it did you.

> The strong "female alliance" was much discussed throughout the
show.

Strong?  Oh wait, they must be using the same definition of "strong"
when they talk about "strong" women.  That is to say, they must be
using an undefined version of "strong."

> When the two tribes merged, there were six women and four men, and
the
> remaining women picked the men off one by one. That is, until
> Daugherty was the only man standing.

And all six of these harpies together couldn't take him out.  What a
laugh.

> With six women and one man left, squabbling erupted among the women
> between whether to vote off Daugherty or Orlins, who wasn't popular

> among the women.

Catfighting and competition over a man brought them down, predictably.
That contest was over when it started.

> Daugherty used the rift to re-ally with Orlins, Lee and Tanner, a
move
> that got them all to the final four.

[...]

> barista in a coffee shop from Lakewood, Colo. "That and insecurity.
> Women aren't used to having other women support them."

Well whose fault is _that_?

> Lee says the issues with the women may lie deeper.

Oh geez.  Why do women spend so much time talking about their "issues?"

> "Jealousies came up," she says. "I think women, on a whole,
have a
> propensity to lean into men.

Daugherty clearly knew of this propensity and made good use of it, in
addition to making fools of the so-called "women's alliance."

> I think when the final push came, it was interesting to see
> [some of the women], they leaned right into that male energy.

They need it to carry their emotional baggage.

> That is so deep-seated and unconsciously held ... Women
> need to really learn to support each other."

Well I at least must applaud you for laying the blame squarely where it
belongs, instead of finding some absurd, nonsensical, "nonlinear" way
to blame it on men.
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