Looking at how reality television reinforces gender roles – Part 5

I feel watching reality shows from Survivor to Apprentice there is some gender roles. First of all in each show there are diverse people from different back ground.

I feel women in each show does work hard to try to win the prize. If they are formed in teams than there has to be a leader and the followers. For example in Apprentice in the beginning the teams are men verses women. Usually depending on the task the women to win and raise enough money to be ahead of the men. It is intresting how women and men think differently to get the best results.

I think most of the time like in survivor and other shows women may get voted out because of something the viewers saw and the teammates seen that the task is not correct. In some situations women have a hard time to adapt especially with other women. Everyone treats each person as a friend and a enemy. They are all there to win.

Men have easier time to adapt to situation and make the most of it. When you put men together they have different type of compatition than women do. The men are wired differently than women.

Sometimes women lose for stupid reasons like fitting with there own teammates. They also tend to make little mistakes and that cost them to lose and get either voted out or not raise enough money.

Once they come over the differences with other women or teammates than I think the women tend to consentrate better and they win.

Men are more tolerable with situation and they often win because they are just there to win. There is no emotions envolved just win the game. Sometimes they are also calm and do not tend to stress out quickly. They consentrate on now and get everyone else to work with each other.

Also in some reality show men tend to make the task or challenge a fun thing to do. It is intresting how they come up with their answers and try to finsh first.

When women and men compete towards the end is the fun part because lot of the people got voted out. It gets intresting when the teams get smaller how they handle competition. When there is a larger group than there tend to be a lot of blame game on why they lost the task. For one thing in Apprentice I noticed in the celeberity competition women have more high contacts for there friends to come out and support their friend. Rasing money is not easy and selling products sometimes is not easy. Some shoppers are bargain hunters and do care of ghe cost of the product if they are not intrested in buying. In Survivor the competition is mostle out door in jungles and sometime the task they have to do is disgusting. For example eating worms or small bugs. In tihs situation women tend to say no way we rather starve than eat that and men will jump in and eat anything.

So I feel there is some gender roles in reality television. Both men and women does each challene differently and come up with results. There is only one winner and one loser in each task eith individually or as a team.