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Alliances are a result of the game's design. During the pre-merge phase, men in general are advantaged. During the post-merge phase, women are advantaged. With tribes at 10 in large cast seasons, tribal cohesion is much more difficult to create, especially when the women have not been weakened and culled in any significant numbers due to one tribe dominating the other. In a game where tribal alliances (particularly of the majority tribe) are weak at the merge, the gender split is likely to occur. One problem is that challenges in recent seasons have become too physical - not testing all attributes in roughly equal proportion, which means that players in subsequent seasons expect this which diminishes the value of women pre-merge, isolating them and targets males post merge as II threats. If the game is designed in a way that men and women are not playing an equal game, then it is natural that they will split along gender lines.

Also it doesn't help that the game that the season is full of low Survivor IQ castaways. We're watching an X-game played by recruited SoCal narcissists and other typically lame "types" that CBS thinks is required for the Survivor to work rather than people with skill. Its like watching a celebrity golf tournament rather than pro golfers.

Gender alliances are just one form of alliance which the game itself favors. There are numerous devices that could be used to breakup alliances but these would not necessarily target gender based alliances. But the first would be a cast of people with a better understanding of the game.

Cheers, 7