So...if Zeke had won this time without being outed, you seriously think that People magazine would not have done a profile on him, wanting to interview his high school teachers, talk to neighbors who knew him growing up, etc. Really? You think this?

It doesn’t matter one way or the other. Survivor is a brand and a product: do you think CBS and the producers were going to do something that would bring in fewer viewers? Do you think that they are upset at the attention this has brought them? They were salivating for this moment the minute Zeke signed up. Zeke might…

Other options: have the realistic expectation that when you sign on someone transgender on a fucking reality show like Survivor where contestants are living so intimately together and under stress, their being transgender will be revealed.

The relevant facts are:

Stupid double post...

Agreed on all points - especially on “this was an awful way for this to happen”. But who benefits from the awful way this happened? CBS and Survivor. Given that they had ten months to figure out how to deal with this, why didn’t Smith come out on his own terms in that time? Most likely answer: it would have…

Reality shows like this one and Big Brother are notorious for putting their casts under pressure to get more drama (sleep deprivation is one of their favorite tricks).

The real villain here isn’t Varner: it’s the producers of Survivor. They knew Zeke Smith would be outed the minute they cast him. Perhaps Zeke hoped he would win and then come out on his own schedule - but that would have been after the fact, and no helped to the ratings with the episodes of him are still airing.…

Everyone pissed off at Jeff Varner should be more pissed off at CBS and the producer of Survivor. Zeke Smith was going to be outed the minute he signed up for this show - as winning would have meant going into his bio for the media, which would have included his past. All of the vitriol aimed SOLELY at Varner is…

Glad I can give you pleasure. Sounds like you’re not getting it elsewhere in life.

OK. Guilty of misrepresentation. Feel better now?

And you were guilty of being inaccurate with your “without incident” bit. So you’re even.

You downplayed what happened as much as the Daily Fail oversold in their headline. So you’re even.

I did read the article - and having a US Marshal called on to escort you off a plane qualifies as “an incident”. It wasn’t simply them being asked to get off the plane and them going “Okay, sure”. Noncompliance with a US Marshal could have resulted in an arrest, which the couple probably didn’t want with a wedding…

What makes no sense is that they would be agreeable to getting off the plane but not agreeable to going back to their assigned seats. Especially when getting off the plane would require them dealing with collecting their already stored luggage from the plane, arranging overnight accommodations, and then trusting that…

Your explanation does not make sense: the couple was defiant enough not to return to their seats but would deplane “without incident”? On their way to their wedding? By the way, this is no defense of the Daily Mail (especially after its long-running anti-Europe stance stoked the flames for Brexit).

As James Baldwin said regarding white liberals, “A liberal is someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.” Thus, their presumptuousness often means retaining the status quo, to the detriment of minorities and women.

Katie Holmes the also had benefit of seeing Cruise’s endgame with Kidman. Kidman was supposedly blindsided by the divorce (having been with Cruise for almost 10 years), and she probably didn’t protect herself against the Scientologists during the marriage - meaning they probably had a lot of dirt on her. Holmes was…

Since the tit incident, Janet hasn’t offered to give blowjobs for presidential candidates, shown up at the Met Ball looking desperate showing bits we’ve already seen, forced her tongue down Drake’s throat, used the n*gga on social media and then blame it on a younger relative, hooked up with Katy Perry for “edgy”,…

Plus, Janet did the whole freaking on an audience member two decades ago: the “I’m a sex beast” act gets tired being trotted out after all the time (witness Madonna’s thirstiness kissing an unwilling Drake and flashing her T & A). Janet’s music is good enough not to need shock value.