dvcorvis:

As a Glee fan for only a year I read archived forums and reviews to play catch-up and gauge how it must have been like to be a fan from the beginning. Recently I was reading up on Mash-Off (S3E6) – I found it so very odd that people/fans/critics would all act and call Rachel’s pulling out of The Student Council race an act of selflessness – some even being so rude as to incorrectly label Kurt as “paying the victim” and/or Kurt  "being ST. Kurt"

Wow, just wow and how soon they forget when only six episodes earlier  Hummelberry swore an oath to help the other one get into NYADA – Remember this?

Purple Piano Project

Rachel: They have credits, Kurt. In Utero credits.
Kurt: Okay, so they have more experience. They have more talent. But you are fierce, Rachel. Your ambition does push-ups while you sleep. Nobody wants it more than you. Nobody. And you’re not giving up on this. ‘CAUSE I’M NOT GONNA LET YOU. YOU ARE GETTING INTO THAT SCHOOL.
Rachel: You make me wanna be your boyfriend. YOU’RE GETTING IN TOO. I KNOW IT.
Kurt: I doubt it. I’m woefully thin on extra-curriculars.
Rachel: It’s not too late. I mean, you can still sign up for some clubs. THERE’S THE STUDENT COUNCIL. I’m not the only fierce one. SWEAR IT. We’re gonna do this.
[Kurt links his pinkie with Rachel, and concludes the oath with “The Gay High Five" wave.]
Kurt: You realize we just did the gay high-five.
Rachel: Yeah, we did.

When Rachel threw her hat into the Student Council race for President in ‘Asian F’ she broke the oath she had with Kurt and started working directly against him. –  Clearly Rachel pulling out of the race wasn’t an act of selflessness – Rachel was righting her wrong – One can applaud Rachel for making the correction but saying she was being selfless here is clearly over-stating it a bit.

Ironically Kurt has been the better friend – selling all the ads space in the program guide so the play could be actually be performed – and getting his dad to run against Sue so there could be an Art’s program – Both things did Rachel a better favor than it yielded any gains for Kurt.