Kate Hackett
Well, this one is a nice and easy one, but the story is worth the sheer outrage, so read on, dear reader. Read on.
Redditor u/Top_Tank882 recently asked Reddit if he was an ass for “walking out of a restaurant on my girlfriend” and the story does him NO favors.
He says that he and his girlfriend were dining when she got a text from a friend. The friend had had a C-section.
GF and I were having dinner at a restaurant when she got a text from her best friend (who recently gave birth), and she said “omg she got a C section.”
The girlfriend is a nurse, so she explained how rough a C-section is. OP took that moment to make a tasteless joke.
She works as a nurse so she then explained to me the type of incision they make for that and how it’ll leave a scar. I then, as a joke, said “at least she’ll still be tight down there.”
OP’s girlfriend said that was weird, but OP doubled down. The girlfriend wouldn’t back down, so OP tried to drop it.
My GF looked confused and then said that was a weird comment to make about her friend. I then said it is a very normal joke to make and she disagreed. TLDR there was some back and forth, i asked her to drop it and she kept trying to talk about it.
He then called her insecure (what?) and she called him out again. OP then walked out of the restaurant and drove home.
I said to her “you’re so insecure” and she then goes “does it make you feel good to call me that?” so then I got really frustrated, got up, and walked out of the restaurant and drove home.
HE WAS HER RIDE.
She called me several times (I drove both of us there) but I was so frustrated and just wanted to get home so I turned my phone off.
When the girlfriend finally got home, she was furious. I can’t believe OP is even asking this, but: is he the ass?
She showed up at our apartment 30min later and was really pissed called me an asshole and over reacted, and that she waited in the cold for 20 min for an uber. Am I the asshole for walking out on her and leaving her there for being frustated?
Reddit users piled on this absolute dope.
“YTA for the completely unnecessary sexist comment about her friend’s vagina and for your lack of understanding about basic biology. Bonus AH points calling your girlfriend insecure, having a toddler tantrum, and storming off,” said one person.
Others called out his misogyny, “YTA. A huge misogynistic gross one at that. With a predilection to baby tantrums. I hope your GF dumps you. You made a shitty comment. Got called out on it. Then decided you didn’t want to face up to your weird comment and left. You STRANDED your GF because she wouldn’t let you make a shit comment about her friend’s vagina. A comment, BTW, that is entirely inaccurate and not funny in the slightest.”
“YTA for the joke, YTA for thinking it’s a normal thing to say, YTA for calling your gf insecure, YTA for getting frustrated and storming off, YTA for leaving your gf without a ride, YTA for turning your phone off and YTA for posting here and making me read your bullshit,” said a third.
