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YoyoDevo t1_j8vzrhz wrote

It's hilarious how some of the women are so overconfident that they pick the biggest strongest guy to challenge and just get easily destroyed, and then are like "I'm proud of myself." No, you're an idiot.

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couchtomato62 t1_j8w3lrh wrote

It worked the other way too where the big strong men thought they can beat the weaker team and lost.

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YoyoDevo t1_j8w99jd wrote

But picking a weaker opponent to compete against is smart, even if upsets can happen. Picking the strongest opponent in a competition is just arrogance and bad strategy.

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Gloomy-Bat-3157 t1_j9ine1r wrote

I think you are missing a big component of Korean culture and many eastern cultures generally speaking. Honor and respect are very important to them. Many contestants when given the opportunity to choose an opponent selected someone they thought would be a fair match. Many also felt pity and empathy for beating a contestant who was at an obvious disadvantage in a given game. Winning isn't everything to them.

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HottyMcDoddy t1_j8ykf3a wrote

We get it you hate women

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YoyoDevo t1_j8zgqpf wrote

I'm sorry I forgot that women are beyond criticism and are perfect beings who can do no wrong

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28stabwoundz t1_j9dmqex wrote

Can you actually give us an instance of when this happened? Personally I dont see why ur maken a deal about it cause its honestly sounds more like they wanted a challenge which is pretty brave. I dont think its about being an idiot or overconfident these people are just the type of people who like to face and overcome massive hurdles. This enviroment was a good opportunity for them to see how they would fair against men. Yes maybe not strategic, but they gave it a shot for the competition and I think thats pretty cool especially how it is obvious they would be pummeled. And its a good spirit to have that their "proud" of themselves. What, do you want them to be completely ashamed and cry that they got beaten? None of the women were rude to the men or said anything sexist to them they just challenged them for their OWN benifit.

To me this sounds like "How dare a woman even think of challenging a man" she must be an arrogant piece of shit when its really not that deep.

Saying that the female contestants are arrogant is just comepltely misleading. From what I can see, the women always showed good sportsman ship and respect to their male contestents. I haven't watched all of the show so maybe I'm missing something but so far, there has been pretty good sportsman ship from both sides and what your saying seems like a nonexistant problem. Especially, when I have seen other males that are smaller and less compitent pick obviously larger more bulky male contestants but why dont they get hate for being "an idiot"?

I guess I could say the same for the males who chose females to go 1v1 against but since the world isn't black and white I can think that yes, they did it because they wanted to win even though others would see it as cowardly. Though I could argue that many of these male contestants were actually outright disrespecting their female oppontents by saying things like "She's just a woman if I cant defeat her I'm not a real man"...which is sort of lame? Not good sportsmanship. But OH no their ok i guess cause its strategy lol. These women are proud of themselves and have probably faced alot of sexism for their way of life but they have barely talked about it and have instead, used it as fuel to try out new challenges. Pretty admirable if you ask me.

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wethairlady t1_j9f59ss wrote

I agree. Only one instance of a woman challenging a man has been presented (Park Min-ji, the wrestler taking on Jang Seong-min, the rugby player) unless more examples are brought forward then this claim that “some of the women are so overconfident” is a deceptive exaggeration. This may not have been intentional but I still find it sad as like you said there are more examples of grace and sportsmanship from the women contestants.

Specific examples being: >!Jang Eun-sil being very humble and surprised about being chosen as team leader instead of a man but still being determined to lead her team to victory. Kim Da Young getting her foot squashed between two large logs during the ship moving quest but insisting they quickly carry on with the task. As I’ve already mentioned in another comment Bo-mi-rae made a strategic sacrifice for her team during the Ancient Greek themed quest meanwhile on another team Song A-reum was realistic about her abilities so was happy letting the men take the lead in choosing who would compete in what rather than being “overconfident”.!<

To come back to Park Min-ji challenging Jang Seong-min and that making her an “idiot”, I think in that case we should also mention >!BBULK who in the same selection process made a show of taunting all the contestants instead of choosing strategically despite being one of the smaller men on the show. Ultimately Kim Sang-wook, a bigger stronger man and MMA fighter took him on and obviously won. Comparably I think it’s fair to say that BBULK displayed a far more overt overconfidence yet he does not get mentioned while Park Min-ji gets called an idiot. I’m almost certain if Park Min-ji had behaved the same way as BBULK had she would be getting an incredible amount of hate and ridicule.!<

I actually don’t think either of them are idiots though. While it’s speculative, to me this seems like both cases are producer influenced. They needed a cocky antagonist and at least one instance of a woman choosing a man just to spice things up a bit so BBULKUP and Park Min-ji filled those roles for screen time and to make the show more interesting which is strategic for a different purpose.

Ultimately both the women and men contestants are capable of incredible feats in athleticism as well as being incredible team players and I think that deserves respect.

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wethairlady t1_j93s7th wrote

I can’t remember any of the women on the show picking “the biggest strongest guy to challenge” so would appreciate if you could specify.

Do you mean the part where >!Bo-mi-rae volunteered for the punishment of Sisyphus? Because I thought it was clear the reason she did that was because no one on her team was suitable for an explosive strength challenge and would be better utilised elsewhere so she essentially sacrificed herself. She knew she was gonna get wreaked and was an absolute champ about it!<

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Zauberer-IMDB t1_j956g84 wrote

Rugby dude was chosen by a woman half his size for the ball challenge.

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wethairlady t1_j95e3th wrote

Ok thank you - that’s one example. Are there any more?

I actually really enjoyed that fight. I knew she wasn’t going to win but to see her topple someone so much bigger and heavier than her a couple of times was really impressive.

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1337speak t1_j9mtftn wrote

as a female into weightlifting, I do love seeing the women step up. even if they lost, the fight in them was so motivational.

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commanderchimp t1_ja1p7ha wrote

Bad Yoyo as well although you only see her match where she is losing you don’t get to see the selection process.

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Gamsy t1_j99974y wrote

I mean not really. She just pushed him a lil and he tripped over the sandbags. He was going like 60% against her.

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wethairlady t1_j99qcmr wrote

Well that’s your perspective. As a small woman I find it impressive because I know how hard it is to even budge someone that much bigger and he fell pretty hard. Even if you’re taking it easy that doesn’t change your weight and height.

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