I didn't find his treatment of her especially chauvinistic, and I'm usually fairly quick to cry foul if I catch a whiff of that disease. He seemed like he was enjoying the power outage - a chance to demonstrate that he is not insane for preparing - bad things, even simple inconveniences ssuch as a power outage, happen. While she may have found his I-told-ya-so behavior annoying - he was helping her. She was the one in the wrong - she was uprepared and she was whining because he WAS prepaered. How self centered can one be? She should have sucked it up and dealt with it chewing her piece of humble pie and learning (hopefully) from the situation..