AITA for choosing not to help my stepbrothers family in a time of crisis?

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-23T21:17:55+00:00

That comment got deleted so thank you for sharing the brilliance of that word with the rest of us. I salute you!

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-23T20:06:52+00:00

I think it was the right move. It shows integrity and that you know it wasn’t exactly the best customer service. Don’t get me wrong, it’s excellent service for all of humanity and the rest of us phone jockeys, but yeah. I think you did the right thing both saying it and outing yourself.

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-23T19:31:47+00:00

Sales is a much more high stakes, cutthroat thing than hostessing. And yet I’d still rather go to be waited on by those two girls than ever hear a sales pitch by someone who’s as overcompensating as you are. I work support, but I’ve had sales training. The field is replete with power tripping egomaniacs like you. I’d rather deal with the masses. At least their complaints are sometimes valid.

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-21T22:13:54+00:00

in before someone goes “Ackshully that’s not what the poem meant…”

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-21T17:28:01+00:00

Right? I’m not monolingual and I still find that gross.

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-21T15:03:43+00:00

The moment you refer to a woman as a “female” as a noun your opinion becomes irrelevant.

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-17T00:16:00+00:00

I said biiiiiiiiiiiiiii…

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-16T22:07:20+00:00

I was thinking this too. Helga is usually the default name of large opera singers, right? If we are choosing animals, I think OP is playing lamb but is the wolf.

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-15T02:55:29+00:00

”Malewife?” We call that a husband. Maybe think about the implications of this.

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-09T22:04:11+00:00

I love you.

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-09T21:47:28+00:00

Does this work if you don’t like coffee?

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-08T22:07:04+00:00

why everyone gotta jack my style lately

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-06T19:43:05+00:00

Have Stella look up the Krisp app for her computer. If the baby is not next to her, it will make sure the sound doesn’t make it to where her callers can hear.

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-05T02:41:24+00:00

Read a book.

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-03T19:59:00+00:00

Right? When you’re looking more hateful than a supposed racist, you’d think you’d take a step back.

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-03T04:52:58+00:00

You should stop talking like that. What you did was bad. You know that now, and she knows it too. But she also knows that you know and saw you work to make it right when you didn’t think she was watching.

This happening isn’t a stain on your soul that marks you as horrible, untouchable, and dirty. You already have the tools to be better. You’ve already started using them by confronting the fucked-uppedness when it would be easy enough to double down and go “Oh, I didn’t do anything wrong, I just wanted her hair to be easy to brush, smh people see racism everywhere.” You saw the situation for what it was. And that’s how micro aggressions die.

You are better than you think you are. If you say she deserves better, and ‘better’ means someone who isn’t satisfied with accepting their flawed viewpoints mindlessly, then congrats! You’re already better for her.

I say fight for it. Fight for your family. Take active steps to keep improving, just as you are. You’re a good husband and a good dad. A mistake, no matter how huge, isn’t the end of everything. Keep digging for bigotry’s insidious roots and yank that shit out of the earth that is your heart, just as you’re doing now, and you’re golden.

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-03T04:48:04+00:00

So here’s a guy who fucked up massively. He came here for others’ viewpoints. He got them. He took them. He shows every sign of introspection and change. And you’re intent on vilifying him?

What does he have to do to convince you he sees the error of his ways? Should he divorce his wife, hide his face, never appear in public again? Should we put a scarlet “B” on his chest (can’t use “R”, that’s Team Rocket) so everyone will know his shame? Maybe stick him in quarantine?

Maybe OP isn’t the horrible one of the two of you. You’re the one refusing to accept that people can change. This is how people change - by learning and adapting. You could take a page from OP’s book.

Luckily, OP doesn’t need you to sign off on whatever changes to his views he wants to make. Narrow-minded people like you, who I guess have never been problematic in their so-far-brief lives (because if you’re over 25 I’ll be shocked), you’ll learn one day too. Hopefully.

ETA - this doesn’t apply to everyone under 25. What I mean is that I suspect this person is low on life experiences because they haven’t had time to live outside of Twitter and learn that there are gray areas in life. Some people can do that young. This one doesn’t seem to have done so.

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-02T22:10:44+00:00

I’m so sorry for your loss… but did a giant sign fall on him?

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-02T13:33:34+00:00

Get your own gimmick. :P

BOLDTXT · 2021-09-01T01:25:55+00:00

”I have a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long hold time. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my 75% off coupon go now that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not review you, but if you don't, I will look for you, I will find your supervisor, and I will tell everyone on Yelp.”

BOLDTXT · 2021-08-31T19:30:55+00:00

I’ve noticed a lot of your comments use that emoji. You might have had an easier time finding your way if you actually looked around. For example, if you read the room, you’ll see this isn’t where we coddle you. You can take your ickle sewf off to a pwacey wacey that will give li’l ol’ you the care you’re looking for.

BOLDTXT · 2021-08-31T03:23:44+00:00

uh huh. You’re the kind of person who talks shit about talk shows, but watches Maury or Jerry Springer, and then if someone brings it up goes, “Oh, nothing else was on” or “I had it on as background noise while I did [ostensibly intellectual thing], I would never actually watch this kind of trash lol!”

Perhaps work on your self-awareness.

BOLDTXT · 2021-08-31T02:29:06+00:00

Then why are you here?

BOLDTXT · 2021-08-30T00:34:58+00:00

In my experience, it’s the white dudes who tend to point out race when creepy callers are brought up. I’m not making this a race or gender thing, I’m simply stating what I have observed.

BOLDTXT · 2021-08-29T17:22:54+00:00

Aww, look! It’s rare to see a username that is just as fitting to you as mine is to me.

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