At least Shirin pointed that out – twice – and the editors kept it in. So Survivor didn't let it pass completely without comment, even if the players themselves were willing to.

I'd go so far as to say Shirin's two comments about everyone else sitting around smiling whilst Will yelled at her would have been buried if anyone other than her or Mike wins as well. Who wants their winner to be someone who sits and smirks whilst a man shouts abuse at a victim of domestic violence (without a…

On the plus side, the people on the jury are, by definition, no longer around her and no longer witnessing how annoying she's being. So Shirin gets the double benefits of the jury members seeing other people treat her like dirt in front of them, at the same time as time is dulling their own memories of wanting to do…

Being the swing vote means you're likely to be the one that the side you don't choose blames.

Let's not forget Tyler was the instigator of the Will–Shirin incident. Tyler is more like if Vichy France kept lobbing grenades at the surrounding forces, then turning around and whistling.

Carolyn nearly won the pole challenge. And we haven't had the 'balance a thing on a thing' challenge yet (unless that's because they used all of them up last season…)

Alicia was part of that too – I hate her just as much as Colton. Why does she never seem to get the blame?

Let's not forget the advantage that Shirin has over both Dan and Rodney (and Will, Mike, Sierra…) – she's a white collar, she works for Yahoo, and there's no way her job has never involved presentations and pitching. This is going to be her thing. Do we think it's theirs?

Shirin had done nothing wrong. And despite how very, very personal Will got in that fight, she didn't throw any of it back at him either. How many people, hearing all that, wouldn't fight back, throw an insult themselves, or say something about how Will's parents had obviously raised him?

So how come Tyler fingered Mike, Jenn and Shirin to Will (and the edit put the blame for this rumour clearly on Mike and Jenn), but it was Shirin who got all the abuse? Punching down like that is despicable, and Shirin was completely right to deny him his letter within the rules of the game. She showed a lot of…

And Creepy Vince, don't forget Creepy Vince.

I would take everyone walking into the next immunity challenge and Jeff announcing "Sorry, we've discussed it and you're all too vile to win the million dollars, so we're doubling next season's prize money instead and you're all now competing for this year's supply of Snickers" as an acceptable alternative.

Thankfully, I think there's no way anyone other than Mike or Shirin can win at this point. Being branded (twice) by Shirin as someone who sat there smiling whilst a man unleashed a torrent of abuse on a victim of domestic violence is completely toxic. Anyone else wins, those remarks don't get shown.

I think it's because those were all individual acts (apart from Colton, who had Alicia with him). We all know individuals can be assholes. It's the number of separate people on this season who have all behaved in ways that society generally considers to be unacceptable that people are reacting to.

Will did already make a black people and fried chicken joke this season.

I know, it's like Jeff announced at the beginning of the season that there was actually a secondary competition going on this game as well, and whoever was judged at the end of the season to have been the biggest asshole would win a million dollars.

I believe it was a giant cocktail (with fruit in it). Guessing Jenn was pretty drunk by the end of that auction…

Yup, that was my read on it too.

It's like even the editors were in denial.

7 is what made Dan happy to sit there and spew all that (can you imagine him giving that same speech to Max?), but the actual content, I think, was down to 1–6. Shirin is a threat to Dan's self-image in a way that the other women currently aren't.