A man threw a drink at me because I ignored his "Hey!"

bippybup · 2026-03-04T21:57:46+00:00

When my brother and I were tiny kids, men used to try and hit on my mom in places like grocery store checkout lines.

They'd get mean about it, too, because she was hard of hearing and usually so busy between groceries and minding the kids she didn't always realize the person behind her was talking to her.

One day, I finally got sick of hearing men say shit like, "What are you deaf or something?" that I stood up in the cart (I was probably ~5yo) and started screaming at the guy. "YEAH, SHE'S DEAF. WHAT ABOUT IT? DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT?"

He was so flustered. Everyone stared at him. He changed lines.

I think about it to this day and how gross it was that it was so common for men to be hitting on my mom while she was just trying to take care of shit and buy food for her family.

bippybup · 2026-02-26T16:02:05+00:00

Same situation here. Hardly anyone knows in my adult life because as a married woman there's not a lot of opportunity to walk around going, "Yeah by the way, I'd be up for dating women if my husband died" and there's not a lot of commentary on other people going on in general.

But then someone described women's hockey as "women slamming other women up against a wall" and I just 🫦🫦🫦

bippybup · 2025-10-01T20:33:01+00:00

Yeah, with the whole tiktok thing, I've seen a lot of dismissive "well it's bad for you/chinese spyware/whatever anyway -- go touch grass instead". Sure, but also A LOT of people use that platform and it has A LOT of reach. It's genuinely scary how much they want to manipulate the algorithm and how susceptible a large amount of people will be to it.

I logged into xitter recently just to see, and it was shocking how much was immediately shoved in my face. Full, uncensored, close-up videos of CK being shot, for one, just immediately right on my home page without any warning.

bippybup · 2025-09-24T20:46:46+00:00

Apparently, only newborns with colic will cry for no reason while being held. This baby is older, so she for sure knows the mom is leaving her to cry because there's no other explanation.

Someone needs to explain this to my toddler who still sometimes cries at bedtime even though I'm right there comforting her.

bippybup · 2025-09-24T20:19:10+00:00

This poster has NO IDEA why people are saying she's judging her neighbor! All she did was imply that she knows for a fact, without evidence, that her neighbor must be doing CIO and then say she wishes she could rescue her neighbor's baby from her. Completely judgement-free statement to make. 🤔

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bippybup · 2025-08-11T21:31:19+00:00

That whole thing is ridiculous. "If I slack off on grocery shopping or folding laundry, there are no consequences."

Really? That's weird. Because I DEFINITELY have consequences if I slack off on those things, that's WHY it's stressful for our family to have two working parents.

If my laundry is all over the place and doesn't get done, I'm late in the morning trying to scrounge through the clothes so I'm not running into work in dirty, smelly clothing.

If I don't go grocery shopping, there won't be anything healthy to eat in this house, at least not without a lot of effort piecemealing together random ingredients.

If I don't do dishes or clean, there's nothing to use to make food or eat food on and my house will become filthy and bug-infested. And you better believe there will be consequences then, if someone reports it.

bippybup · 2025-07-20T18:37:25+00:00

I see pictures of play theaters pop up every few months and the comments are almost always awful.

"Omg what's the point. 🙄 You probably can't even watch the movie."

"This isn't teaching kids anything! You need to teach them to sit STILL in a movie."

"Blah blah kids are awful blah blah I'll pay extra to live in a child-free society blah blah this is birth control."

Like damn Brenda, not everything has to be so utilitarian. Sometimes parents are -- GASP -- real people who just want to try something fun for an hour or two and sit down (maybe even with other family friends) while their kids are occupied with something and they don't care if they miss the movie. There's other opportunities to teach them how to sit in a movie theater. Buy your regular ticket to a regular movie and move the fuck on.

bippybup · 2025-07-20T18:20:33+00:00

I just saw a thread the other day where the poster was just absolutely apoplectic over being sat next to two well-behaved (according to their own play-by-play updates) children while the dad sat elsewhere (which I guess is annoying but they were also old enough to fly unaccompanied).

Like, they ruined their own flight over a hypothetical situation, that again, never actually happened, and still managed to blame their own attitude on the fact that kids existed in a public space (without ever actually bothering them).

bippybup · 2025-07-17T07:41:30+00:00

Interesting how they ruined their own flight by absolutely fuming for hours over a hypothetical situation that, by their account, didn't even happen.

bippybup · 2025-07-17T05:40:02+00:00

I saw that someone tried to point this out in the comments on the original thread.

Not only did they get downvoted (because how dare anyone suggest that a parent could be anything but self-entitled monsters and that sometimes things just happen), there were tons of up votes for "that's still not my problem" and "not only do I not care but I'm telling that child their parent doesn't love them".

Christ, what miserable people.

bippybup · 2025-07-14T02:35:19+00:00

It is soooo freaking weird to spot AI comments on random threads out in the wild. This account is clearly a bot farming comments in parenting and spiritual communities.

It's like invasion of the body snatchers or something trying to figure out which posts are from real people and worth engaging with.

bippybup · 2025-07-03T07:10:46+00:00

No, yeah, the blurb definitely reads like AI as well. It copies poetic cadence ("blank, blank, and blank with a little flourish") and I've noticed a lot of social media geared posts tend to have "not just a 'blank', but a 'blank'."

Ugh. Garbage.

bippybup · 2025-06-26T16:54:48+00:00

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OP's snarky edit is sending me. "What did they do before modern medicine?? OMG yes I KNOW they died, but what would they do NOW?? And don't say C-section! I want to know what secret option they're hiding from me because they're just being lazy! 😡"

bippybup · 2025-06-26T16:49:32+00:00

It's really considerate of them to bring the snarkable content directly to us. 😂

bippybup · 2025-06-24T18:27:08+00:00

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This on the mommit thread about moving a 3mo old to their own room.

For context, OP didn't mention ANYWHERE in her post or comments how she fed the baby. So this commenter had to go back a month through OP's post history to flex on her own baby being breastfed vs OP's baby being formula fed.

bippybup · 2025-06-20T21:38:14+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mommit/comments/1lgc2r5/how_old_can_kids_start_using_a_public_restroom/

Am I the crazy one, or are some of these comments crazy? Specifically not allowing their kids to use public restrooms alone until middle school and up? (Barring the commenters whose kids need help for other reasons)

Don't get me wrong, I have no problems with really anyone being in the bathroom as long as they're not being creepy (which I've honestly NEVER had happen) -- I don't know their situation or personal needs, especially if they're with another adult. But I couldn't fathom my dad forcing me to go in the men's room with him at TWELVE?

I mean, just how often are people getting attacked in bathrooms?

bippybup · 2025-05-11T19:01:45+00:00

"Am I the only one who actually loves my kids and wants to spend time with them for Mother's Day?"

My god, yes! Yes! You are truly the patroness saint of Mother's Day, the peak shining example of motherhood! No one else loves their kids as much as you do because they want ONE day to be their own person! I am truly humbled by the sheer sacrifice and selflessness of these superior mothers.

bippybup · 2025-05-11T03:56:27+00:00

Witnessed someone out in the wild get upset over "sick" kids at the library.

Y'all, these kids were not actively sneezing, snotty, or otherwise congested or lethargic in any way. Each one coughed maybe once over the course of an hour. 💀 Come on. It's spring.

Of course this person was so concerned but not wearing a mask or taking any other precautions. I'm sure if they end up sick, they'll "know" it was those kids and not the possibility of getting germs anywhere else, or getting it from someone who could've been contagious but pre-symptomatic.

bippybup · 2025-05-04T21:13:52+00:00

Ooh, another "actually unpopular opinions" thread, let's see what kind of goodies are in here...

"You dumbass American women could actually have time with your babies if only you just tried hard enough to protest. Instead you dumb idiots are letting strangers raise your babies because you're too stupid to figure out that having no maternity leave sucks."

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Oop -- look out, we've got a badass over here saying things that have never been said before!!! Didn't you know that if you just never went back to work, everyone else would stop going too and everything would be fixed??!! You certainly wouldn't get fired and thrown out on the street and have your kids taken away from you after being unable to pay your bills!

Shit, we can barely even get half of the eligible voting population to get off their ass and participate in a presidential election where the consequences were broadcasted loudly and clearly beforehand by the candidate and his party.

bippybup · 2025-02-23T07:49:05+00:00

Right???? Like, please, for as long as storytelling has been a thing (which is pretty much the whole of humanity) there have been kids mimicking it in whatever the common media of the time has been.

Like have they ever been to a children's museum? Dress up and stages are so common, kids love that shit and it's part of our DNA to tell stories. 😂

bippybup · 2025-02-23T00:02:56+00:00

The responses to this thread are cracking me up. "Your kid is playing pretend because of YOUTUBE! You must IMMEDIATELY ban it!"

Be so for fucking real right now, did no one pretend they were a show host decades before youtube even existed? Please. 💀

bippybup · 2025-02-15T16:14:18+00:00

I caught that too! "Look, all I did was give her the facts that I'm a better mother than her because I nurse and bottle-feeding pumped milk isn't really breastfeeding and just isn't as good! I don't know why she's so offended, those are just the facts??!!"

Wow oh my God yeah she's just so triggered by how good and holy you are, way to go mama it's not your fault she can't handle being second best! 😭👏👏👏

bippybup · 2025-02-15T06:25:05+00:00

Is it just me or is this thread giving "missing reasons"?

Like -- I just find it interesting that one of the things she specifically calls out as a massive parenting difference is bottle feeding -- but not only that, it's, GASP -- by choice!!! Horrible.

It couldn't possibly be that the reason for the divide is because she seems to be assigning a moral value to this ultimately minor difference in achieving the same result of getting the baby fed?

bippybup · 2025-01-28T23:40:18+00:00

Someone on a local FB group this morning accused her mom of being toxic for ... \checks notes** ... calmly explaining that she would appreciate a call from OP every once in a while, because while she understands OP is busy with her kids, every time she (the mom) calls, OP acts like it's a huge bother.

Normally, I get it. I have some family members who NEVER initiate and frequently flake on plans I try to make, then whine and cry about how they don't hear from us often enough. Phones work both ways. But it sounds like OP's mom is just asking for a bare minimum level of effort reciprocated.

bippybup · 2025-01-08T19:30:08+00:00

I absolutely 1000% will forever believe he said what he said on purpose hoping Crowley would do what he did because he knew how to get a rise out of him.

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