Likely because Tai established from the beginning he was against things like that and was very pro nature from the start, plus they had more time to get to know him better. Wendy seemed to be doing it just because she wanted to go against the group, which is just annoying. Wardog calling her out on eating meat at home was spot on. I'd be super pissed too if someone suddenly decided to be a hypocrite, especially if she was on the chopping block as well.

She's probably the most overrated player of all time. She's okay but not some mastermind strategist like dumb people think. This is her 3rd time being on the show ffs. I'm not surprised people here like her so much considering most everyone here considered Russell the GOAT player lmao

But the meat she eats at home comes from a store, no killing needed.

Except that "I eat meat, I just don't want to do the killing" is a specious argument.

For the record, as long as there may be challenges that require swimming, she should be kept at least until right before the merge.

She has absolutely no peepee

There will almost certainly be other challenges that require running and obstacle courses though, and she likely will have a tough time at those because of her ankle injury

Maybe, but she was moving pretty good on land at the end of the last episode. There really is no good strategic reason to vote her off.

Highly recommend the Spencer interview on RHAP. Dude's got a lot going on under the surface.

do we already know how the players from extinction are supposed to go back?

Aside from his "crazy eyes" being a little disconcerting, I haven't been able to figure out why so much deference is paid to Wardog in the tribe. He seems like kind of a meathead, yet Chris and Wentworth seem to run a lot of strategy through him, and Rick and David always seemed concerned about his reaction to things. Rick said straight out if Wardog found out about the movement against Wentworth, then Wardog would most likely put the brakes on the move. Which made very little sense, as you said, given Rick, David, Chris, and Wendy all seemed willing to vote out Wentworth. Wardog should have been irrelevant.

I will surmise the possibility that once Rick and David realized Chris was telling Wardog their strategy, but they could in this limited window, vote Chris out and allow the targeting of Wentworth to be "on" Chris...they chose to seize this opportunity. Spitballing here. Let's say Rick and David want to take out a high value target. They've been targeting Wentworth because she's a known hard playing returnee. But suddenly Chris becomes available as a target because Wardog is tired of having to keep explaining the idea of keeping Wentworth as a meat shield to Chris and is apparently too stupid to realize Chris is also a good alternate target in addition to being invested in an alliance with Wardog.

They got in the position where if they blindsided Wardog by voting out Wentworth and left Chris in the game, they might end up getting exposed by Chris as the original masterminds of the move. Why that matters once you have the numbers, I'm not sure. I don't understand the don't rock Wardog's boat thing that seems to be going on.

But just looking at taking out Chris vs. taking out Wentworth. Both are good targets. Chris showed he could not be trusted to keep their confidences and do what they wanted to do. They can STILL point at Wentworth as the sneaky, dangerous, returnee that needs to be removed in the future. And right now this window is open to remove Chris. Seize the day.

I will chime in that people in this forum have complained about Joe and Tai plenty. Also, the people who say Aubrey is not good at Survivor obviously do not understand Survivor. There really isn't any need to engage with them about it unless you just like that banging your head against the wall feeling.

Wendy is a kick ass swimmer. Props.

I too eat chicken but would not relish the idea of killing the chicken myself. So my reaction to that whole business would be gratefulness to the other members of my tribe who would be willing to kill the chicken so that we could all eat it. If I felt the need to not physically be in the area while the chicken was killed, I'd deal with that by not physically being in the area while the chicken was killed. If my ankle would support me enough to take the flint away and hide it, then I'd manage to find a way to move away from camp while the chicken is being killed.

I consider hiding the tribe's flint so that they can't have fire to boil water and cook rice and chicken to be anti-social. I consider setting the chickens free to be anti-social. And I think trying to get Rick on board with sabotaging the tribe is weak. The woman eats meat ffs. It's not like she's vegan or whatever. She wants to claim moral high ground, by making the people on her tribe not be able to keep warm, have boiled water to drink, or be able to eat. Sorry, no.

In my opinion, Wendy fails the Survivor social experiment. In addition, I think she's a loose cannon. I would not want to be in an alliance with her.

Tai is trash. It has nothing to do with chickens

Apparently everyone read the Wendy/Rick discussion way differently than I did. I thought it was pretty obviously in jest, not that she was actually asking him to free the chickens. There is of course no reason he would do that. I guess if everyone thought she was serious, that explains why everyone is so against her. I thought it was just fun banter between them

People try to make everything about sexism .

It's been a while, but from what I remember:
*Tai was never confrontational or telling people they are not allowed to kill the chicken, he just convinced them not to do it.
*I think they killed x chickens and just kept 1 around.
*Tai never sabotaged or tried to prevent people from killing the chicken.
*Tai his position made sense and he made people respect his view.

I really wanted to like Wendy after E1, but she's just irritating and bad. Her logic on not killing chickens is just completely ridiculous.

I'm fine with the idea that you don't want to see an animal get killed.
I'm fine with the idea that you don't want to eat an animal you have seen when it was alive.
It is ridiculous to hold everyone to those standards, ESPECIALLY while not even being a vegetarian. It makes no sense.

Her giving up after hurting her ankle and basicly helping herself become the target was also beyond bad gameplay.

I also 100% understand why David wants to get Kelley out, but him not pulling the trigger is so incredibly risky. Kelley will figure it out eventually, and then it will be 50/50 who survives. I don't understand why he keeps postponing it.

Because it’s rampant and drives the majority of people’s lives, both consciously and unconsciously.

Huh? She walked in to the next challenge and competed. Not how I define giving up.

Plus, it sure looked like she had her ankle wrapped for the challenge, which leads me to think they edited out a visit from medical that determined the injury wasn't serious.

I meant what she did after the challenge. She basicly gave David permission to vote her out and did not even try and impact the vote.

So what was your read on her taking the flint and saying the rest of them wouldn't be able to make a fire and cook the chickens if she had the flint?

but she wasn't doing that?

i dont even know what this is

my read is that taking flint is very different from freeing the chickens. she can always give the flint back (or have it 'appear')

this is also really comical. they have the exact same position! don't kill the chicken. but tai's made sense and wendy's doesn't? not about sexism tho

It was all fun, games & (idiotic) banter until she took away the flint. How is her taking the flint away when the camp had just decided to cook some chicken not her preventing people from cooking chicken?

Higher in my post I posted all the reasons why Tai his position made more sense and was not criticized as much. If you look closely, you will see that none of these reasons are "TAI HAS A PENIS". Your post is also ridiculously unfair. Almost everything in the world is nuanced. It's not your opinion that matters, but how you motivate it.

um, because thats not what you said lol. you said she was holding everyone to her standards. that is not what she was doing. these are different things. she just wanted to save the chickens because she assumed she was going home, as i explained in my post a while ago



if I look closely, I will see that you claim Tai "made people respect his view" but "was never confrontational"

yet apparently Wendy was the confrontational one and not Wardog, when all Wendy was doing was defending her own view. something you credit Tai for doing, but criticize Wendy for doing. we have parallel actions here, but you look at them favorably coming from Tai, and disfavorably coming from Wendy

and then you say it's not the opinion that matters, but how you motivate it. what does that mean?! so you are admitting you're only judging the position by the person who delivers it, and not by the position itself. exactly.

and...you were the one who said the position matters, because one of your reasons it was ok for tai was "his position made sense." when they have the exact same position. so you're moving the goalposts again





if you really want to talk about sexism, the whole point is that people overwhelmingly tend to give male survivor players the benefit of the doubt, while assuming only the worst motivations out of the female players without ever trying to understand their perspective. you just see what wendy did and immediately assume she did so for horrible reasons, and make no attempt to actually understand why she did that. or even understand what she was doing in the first place.

its normal for people to have biases. i wish people wouldn't get so defensive about it. there's nothing wrong with that; it would be impossible not to. it's only a problem when people double down on it, rather than doing the tiniest amount of introspection/reflection to realize maybe there is a disparity in how male vs female players are judged. there's clear examples of this time and time again in these threads, but instead people continue to insist it never has anything to do with gender. that seems pretty unlikely to me.