Don't be ridiculous. Women don't have body hair.

At first I thought it might be strategic somehow, like she wanted to be seen as guileless and nonthreatening and thought the way to do that was to be honest even when it wasn't in her best interest. Now I just think she's mean and foolish.

I didn't want to believe that was a red flag. I just wanted Kass to be so much better than she is!

But you don't make it better by sniping at them! I can almost understand the vote-someone-out-for-your-sanity move, but I don't understand why you'd actively bicker. It's not just bad game strategy, it's a terrible response to your immediate problem.

I think the ego was there.

My grandmother and mother always made us use a different chant (one which seems unknown to the internet!), but I think it's kind of an obscure racist history. If I break out the weird chant and then explain it everyone is usually surprised.

Kass tonight was another harsh reminder that people don't know shit about themselves. Her intro video was all about how she has no ego and is good at making nice with larger personalities so they underestimate her.

Nerds? At the A.V. Club?

I don't think Spencer, Tasha, and Jeremiah are foolish or volatile enough for that. Morgan, though…

Sophie would be my pick in a winners season. Kim was a masterful leader, but winners would be far less tractable than first-time players and Kim would be seen as a big threat. I think Sophie is a very underrated winner, and we've seen her adapt her game to strong forces around her successfully already.

But he's letting his chummy feelings mess up his game! If he hadn't made Sarah feel so abandoned last week with the "final five" and the Jeremiah fake idol clue and the not talking to her when he was at her camp, he could (maybe) have walked in with a majority alliance.

The reward challenge also gave sooo many people an opportunity to look badass. Very fun.

Proving my point that you only think it's gross if you're heaping misplaced pity/disgust on Trish. She's just a person being distracted by a hot person! Who among us has not looked a little foolish in such a situation?

I don't think J'Tia was a good person to keep around because she's too unpredictable to work with, but I don't think challenge strength arguments make sense going into a swap.

Things that come out of my brain while I watch Survivor:

For all their flailing, the Brains wound up effectively culling the people who would have been most difficult to work with long term.

At least now I can stop getting wildly inaccurate ideas about how tall his tribemates are. Because we see him and Woo together so much I keep thinking of them as a tall man and a short man, when I think they're actually a tallish man and a colossus.

Spencer is growing on me like a fungus. I think he'd be my early favorite if I hadn't read the bios first. He seems much more likable on the show, and also more like a smart person and less like an unjustifiably arrogant person. I am so conflicted about the little bitty Survivor crush I have on him.

And if J'Tia ended up on the other tribe, the other tribe would go to tribal council next week. Keeping someone who's weak in challenges going into a swap is a coin flip.

I was about to say the same thing. Batting your eyelashes a little is a time-honored Survivor strategy that we don't usually find gross, and I'm not sure why we should now. Is it because the sex drives of single women over 40 are considered so shameful that the only decent thing would be to pretend they don't exist?…