Clearly, this is not the summer to be a woman on "So You Think You Can Dance." Adding up the first two weeks, there were:

-- Twelve chances (six each week) to dump a man into the bottom three. Only one was dumped there.

-- Nine chances (five the first week, four the second) to dump a woman there. Five were dumped.

In the first week, Alexie Agdeppa was ousted; Cristina Santana and Melinda Sullivan survived. Tonight (Thursday), those two were in the bottom again, along with Robert Roldan. Cristina was sent home.

This was the television equivalent of coitus interruptus.

Tonight's "So You Think You Can Dance" gave us Kent Boyd, the farm kid from Botkins, Ohio. He was marveling at his pairing with Courtney Galiano, a city kid from New York.

"She doesn't care -- lets you touch her wherever you want," Kent said, in his best Botkins bumpkin persona. Soon, they were sliding into a sensuous routine, bodies blending lithely, when ...

"Our boys are so, so strong," Nigel Lythgoe said during Wednesday's round of "So You Think You Can Dance."

Tonight, we learned that the viewers agree. Consider:

-- The judges had picked six guys for the final 11. When viewers voted after Wednesday's show, all six escaped the bottom.

-- Judges picked five women for the finals; viewers promptly plunked the majority of them into the bottom three.