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There's nothing quite as misogynist as the idea of a reality dating show where one guy gets to date twenty five women at the same time. But, feminist that I am, I fell for it more times than not. Simply put, I am a hopeless romantic.

In recent years I've steered away from ABC's The Bachelor simply because it became something of a joke. Rarely do the relationships work outside of the show, with one pretty amazing exception. Once the producers put a woman in the driver's seat of this reality vehicle, Trista Rehn found the man of her dreams in Ryan Sutter. Not only did they go on to marital bliss, it proved that one of the only instances where "my pick" was chosen meant for lasting love.

Every failed relationship could have benefited from my counsel. That's all I'm saying.

So what got me to watch this season? Was it feminist loyalty for the spurned woman getting her chance to date twenty five men?

No. I just happened to catch the first one, found a couple of guys I liked and they haven't yet been sent packing.

DeAnna Pappas was on a previous Bachelor as a hopeful Bachelorette, who was unceremoniously dumped along with the other "finalist". That's right. He didn't pick anybody. Brad decided after it was all said and done he couldn't tell her he loved her and had to tell her "good-bye".

His loss was the gain of twenty five new men who came to the show to woo this Georgia peach of Greek descent.

I've come to really like DeAnna over the season. I truly feel she's in it to fall in love and she's been fair to all the men in her decisions - even the harsher ones. Nice guy Fred from Chicago thought for sure he was safe on the date he had to share with rather egocentric chef Robert after DeAnna sent Robert home. Instead, she also said good-bye to Fred even though she thought he was a fabulous guy. She liked Fred a lot, but knew it was only as a friend. Because she learned how much it hurt to be strung along, she simply couldn't do it to anyone else.

Some of her choices I didn't get - like Graham from North Carolina, who seemed to be fighting her tooth and nail to give her what she wanted from him. One notorious argument occurred after he said he wasn't going to kiss her because he didn't want to be one of a "bunch".

It was a very tempestuous relationship, but despite that she was falling head over heals for him. When she finally said good-bye to Graham, I was stunned but pleased. It was then I knew she really was fighting hard to make the right decision for herself.

She's fighting

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