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For 92 hours, I was captivated by Fear Factor on Samsung TV plus. I only nodded off a few times. There were many striking things I observed. The Special Forces are underrepresented across the services with Black males. All of the Black people except for one man had difficulty with water challenges. That was mystifying to me because all of the Black children I grew up with were good swimmers. Body Builders did poorly as well. If fact, skinny women bested them at every turn. The worst example was the contest of hanging from a bar until one’s grip failed. A Body Builder only managed 18 seconds, whereas, the women hung for 60 seconds or more. This wasn’t so surprising to me. Back in 1984, a Body Builder defamed me at a restaurant. This blowhard said, “Man, you need to take some steroids to look like a man.” I was six feet four inches tall at about 180 pounds. He was a full foot shorter than me. He tried to further embarrass me in front of my friends from work, he challenged me to arm wrestle him. I dispatched him easily. 

Body Builders did poorly in the water too. Rarely did the Body Builders make it to the second challenge. In one episode, two mothers from Utah bested all of the big strapping men teams. These women were average in appearance. However, these two mothers from Utah had the mental toughness that the men could not hope to match. Fear Factor would be a superb filter for the Bud/s program which produces new Navy Seals. I have eaten bugs, mostly grasshoppers, and raw meat. The second challenge was almost always an eating event. To be honest, some of the women may have bested me. I can’t fathom how a person can compel themselves to eat a hairy cow nose. My point to all of this is when Fear Factor was on television, there wasn’t a movement to soften the women and men of this nation. It seems as though there is a race to be the weakest of the weakest. Now men are lauded as they transform themselves to appear female. Women are becoming professionals in victimhood. At the Air Force Academy, the cadets have been instructed to not use the words, father and mother. The cadets have been told the usage of mother, mom, dad, and father, are microaggressions toward those with homosexual parents. I would put up any of my 1975 female track mates in a contest against the soft boys of today. All from grade school to college, there wasn’t an instructor who talked about their sexuality. All of the students I knew of strived to be attractive males and females. There was no such thing as gender-bending.

Fear Factor last aired in 2012. It might be that Fear Factor was the one thing stemming the tide of the current madness to destroy masculinity and femininity. Our nation needs to produce strong women and men of mental and physical capacity.