Survivor Hype is Ridiculous

I must be missing something, because I can’t understand the fuss about the upcoming “Survivor.”  The plan, you see, is to divide the players into four teams, according to their races. 

And this is newsworthy? 

Last season, or maybe the season before, they divided the teams according to age and sex:  old women, young women, old men, young men.  I didn’t notice any outcry then.  Isn’t that sexist and ageist?  Is that any different that dividing teams according to race?

Would anyone care if people were divided according to height and eye color?  Or shoe size and ear-lobe shape?  Or weight and chin-size?

In today’s ultra-sensitive world, we are not supposed to notice any differences between people, especially in their appearances.  But good grief!  Sorting people into teams according to their race is hardly “segregation,” if you ask me, unless it was also segregation to sort them according to sex and age.

Here’s a newsflash:  “Survivor” is a game.  I sure hope that the media reaction (hysteria, always!) isn’t a reflection of real people in our country, who hopefully have more sense than the media implies. 

If anything, the new season of “Survivor” will show us all that race doesn’t matter at all (duh!) when you’re sleeping in the rain on a sandy beach for thirty-nine days trying to outlast, outwit and outplay fifteen other game-players.