Strength or Stamina

[MaryN]

There is a very entertaining series on tv at the moment called "Naked and Afraid". For those of you who haven't seen it, it involves a couple of strangers - one male and one female - who have to survive for 21 days in a survival situation without food, shelter or clothing. They are allowed one item each.

Apart from it being very entertaining watching, it has brought up a couple of points that I'm curious as to how the members of this Forum would react. I don't know if the makers of the series actually chose it, but the men seem to be macho military types (all muscle and grunt), and the woman are slight and seem quite (at first) passive. So far, it seems that the women survive the quite dire situations in better shape. Do you think, that post SHTF, your partners will make a better show of survival than you? Women, after all, do tend to be stuck with tending the family, sorting out the food and all the other little difficulties that keep a home running smoothly. But how about if those skills actually do make survival more likely?