Hello and welcome to our TED Talk about the glorious women of Australian Survivor: All Stars.
On the agenda today, we’ll be discussing how epic the remaining female contestants battling it out for the title of Sole Survivor are.
At the time of publishing, there are only seven players left stranded on a Fijian island playing to win $500,000. They are: David Genat, Mark “Tarzan” Herlaar, Aaron ‘AK’ Knight, Brooke Jowett, Shonee Fairfax, Moana Hope, Sharn Coombes and Jacqui Peterson.
And while there’s been a lot of talk this season about ‘Golden God’ Dave’s many brilliant moves, really, it’s all the women making big moves and blindsiding. So let’s debrief on some of their best moments, shall we?
You can watch Jacqui keeping her cool in her Survivor challenge stand off against Zach in the video below, post continues after video.
1. Women winning all the immunity challenges.
Since the two Survivor tribes became one during the merge, every individual immunity challenge has been won by a woman.
Traditionally, Survivor challenges have been seen as a male domain, so to see female contestants dominating has given the term ‘challenge beast’ a much-needed new meaning.
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So awesome! Loving the women this season! Zac was a sexist idiot and it was great to see him get his comeuppance!
Female players have won plenty of immunity challenges post merge in previous seasons. Like Zak, Jacqui also behaved pretty poorly during that challenge last episode - she didn't keep her cool at all. If anything was passive agressive questioning Zak's methods after squatting herself. And she wasn't exactly civil later on in the episode when talking about him, but that's been completely skimmed over. And why are we celebrating Moana for sending a message to the jury that she was the mastermind behind something she really wasn't? Do we celebrate people taking credit for the plays of others? I'm all for female empowerment but I'd rather commend Tarzan for putting the game aside and being an absolute champ and a rock for Lee when he needed it most than celebrate Jacqui and pretend we didn't witness her subpar behaviour.