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If there's any clear front-runner in this season's reality TV contests, it has to be the manufacturers of tissues. Up and down the dial, it's just weeper after weeper after weeper. Even hardcore adventure series like The Amazing Race are turning into three-hankie affairs that put the Hallmark Hall of Fame movies to shame. Big, strong men cry when they get letters from their beloved women. Angry women cry after a fight. Relieved wives cry when they get home to hug their children after being swapped with another family. Then their husbands shed a few tears when they figure out that somebody else has spent their winnings.

If you've tuned into any of these shows for even a few moments, you've no doubt noticed some strange gender politics going on amidst all that blubbering. Women have been taking over on some shows, picking each other apart on others and destroying themselves for the sake of beauty or relationships in all the rest. What's the worst thing women have done this season? We have the answers in our analysis of the female power on reality TV.

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