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The obsession of "VIP survival" with "being a man" is just ridiculous
In every season of every reality the same ritual takes place - a contest has changed to a distance, aimed at crowning "the most manly", and although there are countless conversations on the subject, tired almost as much as conversations about defining femininity, for some reason we have not yet closed on what it really means.
Thus, the sexism in the duel was that of Maayan, not a fan
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Karin Arad
Tuesday, 09 November 2021, 08:40 Updated: 08:55
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"VIP Survival": Zohar tries a move with Jackie (Network 13)
We have finally arrived at the day when "Gadi's move" will be revealed, or as he calls it "the most ingenious move in the history of survival".
It's good that he's not really recommending himself for the Nobel Prize.
I have to admit that since I found out (thanks for the subtitles in the tests) that Gaddy is studying law and recovering from the laughter attack that hit my spleen, I was expecting more, but hey - his plot was probably successful enough for Zohar Strauss to try to appropriate it for himself.
Amazing how without blinking at all he repeats word for word the things Gaddy told him, and pretends it's his idea.
Behavior that proves that the condescension he has been accused of since the previous season is not an invention, and worse - that stems from an insecurity that sits, of course, on the explosive concept of "masculinity."
In every season of every reality the same ritual takes place - a contest has changed to a distance, aimed at crowning "the most manly", and although there are countless conversations on the subject, I am almost as tired of talking about defining femininity, for some reason we have not yet closed on what it really means.
I'm a man, you're not a man, he's not a man, if he were a man.
The number of times the word 'man' is used in the chapter in the context of behavioral expectations is twice the number of Odelia's mausoleums.
What dangers it is to live with an inner world where you are constantly struggling to reach the goal and be the most manly, especially at a time when the criteria are mostly contradictory.
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Do not learn from mistakes.
Zohar Strauss, "VIP Survival" (Photo: Network)
Is a man a man who pampers women, flatters, buys and treats them like El Rapunzel in the tower, and according to Maayan Ashkenazi will also never put himself in front of a woman, as a fan did in her choice for a duel? "Sluggish, cowardly," she responded immediately, "a man who chooses a woman? If he were a man enough he would choose a man," and more pearls in style. I do not even know where to begin to explain how bad it is that a Bouzaglo fan is the one who should remind us in prime time that Maayan is strong enough to face him despite her erupting femininity, while the rest continue to elaborate on the ancient guilt of the old guilt and do just the opposite.
Jackie did not stop accusing Ohad of aggression and calling Maayan Malka (a title she would probably get even if she just stood in the arena), and his uncle in general increases his do and says in a wavy brush that a fan should "act like a man" and give up Maayan. That's what he would do. not surprising. His uncle suffers from the hero complex, and sees a man as a man who "does the right thing," and sacrifices himself for the common good to get out of Superman. He expects to receive only endless admiration in return, by the way, and he does not understand that it is the exact opposite of respecting women - this is an approach that makes women, and in general, men - weak and incapable. This is how he sees the balance of power between Ohad and Maayan, even though it is clear that in this arena their forces were completely equal, and apparently, the result was three zeros until the last stage, mainly because Ohad snatched criticism for every move he made in the arena.
Really well done to those (or those, in hindsight, as Gaddy calls her), who was the only one who saw the unfairness of the situation.
It really was not fair - on the one hand, Maayan pulled out a rag after rag fan, and in the meantime, instead of fighting, he just fiddled with her safety.
Dozens of cries of "Maayan, are you okay?"
Were thrown into the air until the result was three zeros in her favor, and only then did he dare to start fighting for himself.
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Treat the spring as equal.
Ohad Bouzaglo, "VIP Survival" (Photo: Screenshot, Network 13)
So let's close this corner - a fan chose Maayan as part of a strategy, ignoring the fact that she's a woman, and focusing on the goal - forever. That's fine, and that's exactly what he should have done. There's no problem with choosing a woman for a duel, and no, that does not make him any less of a man. On the contrary - the diminution of Maayan and sexism actually came from home - from Maayan herself, from his uncle, and from everyone who sat in the house and was angry with him. He would have had to be angry if he had not chosen her because she was a weak woman, because it is precisely this thought that we are trying to eradicate in the pursuit of equality.
In the end a fan wins, and also does not forget to be a "man", to hug her at the end of the fight and compliment her, and it's good that way, otherwise he would have been put together with Danny Roop in the corner of the bad kids.
But as usual he had to destroy.
Instead of being a voice he had to wind down with "whoever sees 'Buzaglos' knows that there is a business here with a dominant man. That's my character, there is nothing to do," which is the most unmanly sentence in the world.
But no matter, the main thing that Jacob, the reason that motivates all the men in the family to get up in the morning and prove themselves to the last detail, will be satisfied.
In the personal immunity mission Dudu won (how many bet he passes the chain to someone with a saint's face?) And now only the Tribal Council remains, where Gadi will probably be ousted, unless his move works, and together with Zohar Strauss and Ohad Bouzaglo he manages to make Este-la -Vista to someone from the opposite alliance.
There is a chance that it will succeed even though they have a whole evening to do intrigues, because this is a bunch of very non-strategic people.
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Sexism came from home.
Maayan Ashkenazi, "VIP Survival" (Photo: Screenshot, Network 13)
Even Jackie, the island's breaker, Walter White, manages to advance largely thanks to a natural killer instinct - she has a knack for moving allies and finding vulnerabilities in enemies, but if you ask her to explain her strategy two steps ahead, it will probably start to hurt her head. .
This is her great weakness, and it's a shame Zohar doesn't recognize it, because his ego hides from him.
Instead of being offended that he was "not getting respect", he would understand that in order to motivate Jackie she had to be convinced that she was needed - that it was the exact opposite of what he was conveying to her, out of arrogance.
This personality flaw will probably bring him down this season as well - if he does not absorb while insisting on getting respect through the presence of intellectual superiority only harms him, he will fly in the next dismissal.
In "Survival" the difficult challenge is to be flexible enough to go through an identity crisis and come out improved - and we have already learned from previous seasons that whoever sticks to ideas that comes with them from home, will stumble upon them sooner or later.
Zohar must release his vision of himself as an alpha male, and Maayan must release her vision of herself as a delicate woman that all she has is kindness and compassion.
Her conduct in a duel can be her defining moment in the game, which might scrub off the wave she's been hanging out with for a decade, of the one that threatens just the right amount to get almost to the end, wrapped around a man's neck.
She must quickly grasp that in order to survive she needs to do other things besides cuddle with Jonathan, because unlike real life, in "survival" it can not really promote her.
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