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I don't want to watch another Coach. I don't need to see any one contestant take up that much airtime. It gets old. The fact that one contestant (allegedly male contestant, of course) is being hyped so hard already makes me nervous.

Eliza do you feel that editing favors male contestants? How do you feel about the fact that male contestants had twice as many confessionals as female contestants in Tocantins, for instance? And that female winners have a much lower average confessional count than male winners?

matty p wrote:

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Male contestants had twice as many confessionals than females on Tocantins because males dominated that season. The gameplay was all about JT, Stephen, Coach, Tyson and Brendan. A season like Micronesia, where the gameplay is dominated by females, likewise featured plenty of confessionals from players like Parvati and Cirie and less from the males. If you are good enough at the game or a big enough personality, you will get heavily featured, regardless of your gender.

That's inaccurate. It is not a matter of "domination" or being an interesting character. Joe, for instance, had more confessionals than Debbie. He was a prejury boot and she got sixth. Your perception of who "dominates" or who is interesting is based on the edit anyway.

Your Micronesia comparison doesn't hold up. The difference between male and female confessionals in that season is around 50, a far cry from double, almost all of which can be accounted for in the final episode when there were no men to feature. Up until that point they were roughly equal. In a season like Tocantins where women were present in roughly equal numbers to the men throughout the season there's not even that excuse. Likewise in Gabon, where men had 250 something confessionals to the women's 150 something.

During seasons that were won by women, for example Pearls Islands and Fvs.F the winners actually gave most of the confessionals that were shown. I think Sandra's confessionals were kinda "overused" in her season. She was the first to speak in her season in a confessional and she went on winning as we all know. Parvati also gave like 100s of confessionals.

That's incorrect. Parvati has the lowest average confessional total of any winner. Male winners average 20 or so more confessionals than female winners, and the majority of female winners come from a time when there were more confessionals in general, which is even more surprising.

Confessionals are just an example. They're easy to quantify. From my perspective it's obvious that men are featured more prominently on the show. I just wonder why.