Where is Don Corleone When You Need Him? Or Why Sarah Should Not Have Been Voted Off

I knew this day would come. Poor Sarah got voted out and I have the challenge of looking at her with the sympathetic light of the underdog and coming up with reasons why she should not have been voted off.

It was not as hard as it might have seemed to the few million or so Sarah haters out there (over 80% of you thought she deserved the boot and her popularity dropped to around 30% -- compare that with Hunter's 90+% popularity and 80+% of you that thought he should have stayed, according to CBS and AOL polls).

Sarah, when you read this, feel free to drop me a line. My email address will now be included at the bottom of my articles for the purpose of letting those who I actually talk about in this piece contact me to correct any misconceptions I have of them. Oh, and anyone else who wants to write me can too.

So, why should Sarah have not been voted out? The first reason that comes to mind is ratings. The Male 12-64 rating group (which is actually several ratings groups) thought Sarah was hot and was waiting for that bikini top to fall down. Others were tuning in to see if Sarah and Rob actually had sex. For the true Survivor fan, ratings are very important. If Survivor 4 has higher ratings than S3, which did pretty well actually, that means there will be a Survivor 5 and a Survivor 6, etc. So keeping Sarah around simply for the ratings she brought in was an important reason not to vote her off the island. Of course that is strictly from a viewer standpoint. The other tribe members probably didn't care at that moment how the TV show would fare in six months.

Why should they have kept Sarah on? Well, that is where it gets a little harder. Was Sarah lazy or was she simply succumbing to peer pressure? Did she not work because Rob, Sean, and Vecepia did not work and that was her alliance? If that is the case, then Gina should have been able to see it and kept her around after the twist. Honestly, Sarah dear, that is not why you were lazy. I know you have an excuse, a dozen or so probably. You were sick, there was not enough protein, Rob told you to be lazy, you did not come to the island to work, you came to play Twister or Scrabble or cards. To tell you the truth I cannot really think of any other redeeming quality that Sarah brought to the game except a body that makes men stare with their mouth open. But Sarah, that is how you played it, that is how you wanted it. I feel very sorry for your family right now. They must cringe every time they see you on screen acting the way you did. I know I would if it were my daughter and yes, Sarah, the producers did edit you to look one dimensional and stereotypical. It does not help that you are on the cover of a tabloid this week wearing a blazer and nothing else with a story of how you were going to use your body to win the game. That just feeds into the typecasting.

So Sarah should not have been voted out because she drew in the young horny men crowd. Other than that, Sarah, I am afraid there was not reason to keep you around. I hope those nonos don't leave scars. Speaking of tiny pests, my husband tells me there is an old fashioned remedy for the itching of chiggers and the like. Rub a mixture of sand and alcohol into the affected area. Apparently the chiggers get drunk and throw rocks at each other.

So, who should have been voted off? Well, normally I would stick with choosing another Maraamu, but this time I am not. Kathy had hoped they would pull a Boran and throw the game to get Silas – oops I mean one of the new members – off, and I wish that would have happened. Then they could have voted off Rob. Sean ain’t representing like he should be but I do have a twinge of admiration for him telling Gabe like it is. He was a complete jerk and deserved a really hard slap in the face for it, but he was right. They are going to pick off the three of them as soon as they get the chance. It's kind of like being at a job after you have turned in your two week notice. You just don't have the desire to work too hard knowing you are leaving.

So it should have been Rob, who thinks he is funny, but he is not. I hope one day to see Rob in a celebrity boxing match. I keep thinking of how he said he liked Robert De Niro and wondering if De Niro watches Survivor.

You know if he did, De Niro would take a baseball bat to his ass.

I lived in Boston for a number of years and I knew guys like Rob; they would show up at Liam's Irish tavern in Framingham on open jam night and get solidly drunk (Wicked Sh-Faced) and then decide they would get up on stage and sing “Stairway to Heaven” lyrics to the tune of Charlie and the MTA (no he'll never get off). Everyone would put up with their crap until they decided they knew how to play drums and started falling all over the set. Then someone would try to escort them off but they would get BullSh-- and start telling people they were just jealous cause they had a small sausage and then would insult someone's mother who was a waitress giving everyone free draft Guinness, so someone would punch the Rob and before the night was over, if he didn't pass out, he would be apologizing and hugging everyone he knew, plus some strangers, and planting wet Guinness foam kisses on man and woman alike. Rob, you ain’t representin MEN or BOSTON or Italian Americans. You are representing misogynistic morons and I bet your mother wants to slap you on the back of the head for talking the way you do. But don't worry, Rob, when they vote you out in a couple weeks I will find something redeeming about you, too.

Peggy Keller is Mother and Behavior Therapist to her two autistic sons and teenage daughter. Click here to e-mail her.

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