It's hardly nitpicking, it gets back to the whole idea of women being weak and needing men to protect them. Also, we're talking about peoples lives. It's incredibly to selfish to say "let's just focus on the sexism that hurts me".

If you personally feel that, as a man, you would prefer to sacrifice your life to save a woman that is fantastic, good for you. But I think it's bad form for Jezebel to promote the idea that men in general should be sacrificing their lives to save women.

Agreed. If this guy was really a feminist "ally" he would have stood back and allowed the woman to succeed (live) or fail (die) on her own. Him saving her was just really sexist and patronizing.

Any man sacrificing his own life to save a woman is clearly perpetuating the "white knight" stereotype inherent in patriarchal thinking.

Yeah, even though I know the "True Southern Gentleman" bit was a total Troll, I still find it sad that a website dedicated to gender equality is reinforcing the Patriarchy by perpetuating the outdated value that it's a male duty to sacrifice themselves for females (even if it was done in jest).

Because there's no way the guy will ever see this dumb TV show or a friend/family member won't tell him about it? Seriously, she just announced to the world she wanted to trick her husband into getting her knocked up. If he wants a kid, he'll stay. If he has brains, he'll run for the goddamn hills.

If lying about using a condom is rape, so is this.

The relationship would be essentially over if a woman did this to me. I'd do right by the kid, but I would resent it as well.

That all depends on whether or not he is a babe. Current guy does bikram, previous guy did kundalini, and both are pretty gifted in the looks department. If I had met either one of them in a class, I wouldn't have minded if they hit on me.

"siphon messages with text-speak." Damn, well then I wouldn't have received any responses!

Yeah, it's kind of the worst. Hordes upon hordes of skeevy guys on one side, and completely vapid, self-absorbed, game-playing women on the other.