LAST EDITED ON 04-19-17 AT 00:04 AM (EST)

I'm not mad at anything. But I am not willing to think Survivor is not callous.

As far as I see, Survivor is always delighted to have these things occur. They can easily manipulate the situation into making the show look like it handled it oh-so "sensitively" from the get-go, but what, imho, they've done in this case is force (probably gently) contestant A, whom they had promised "could tell his story the way he wanted", into having to talk about this -- and Survivor's integrity, of course -- for some indefinite length of time in his life when maybe he wouldn't have wanted to, while also being able to paint contestant B, for the audience's benefit, as a vile disgusting creature who is not worthy to live, for having made an INEPT STRATEGIC MISTAKE ON A FREAKIN' GAME SHOW WHICH IS NOT REAL LIFE.

But, as Jeff Probst so unctuously put it, the issue "transcended tribal council." Survivor must have been salivating to appear so edgy.

And so now I am reading that Jeff Varner has been fired from his job for this? Yeeeesh.