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Woman Enrages Boyfriend’s Sexist Uncle By Bringing Flowers To A Family Get-Together
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Woman Enrages Boyfriend’s Sexist Uncle By Bringing Flowers To A Family Get-Together

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What do you do when you have an irreconcilable difference with a member of your significant other’s family? It’s a tough one. Because like or not, there will be occasions when you are forced to try to be civil to one another. It’s either that or a potential lifetime of frosty silences and less-than-pleasant family get-togethers.

Image credits: Marco Verch (not the actual photo)

Reddit user u/shygirlturnedsassy has different ideas, however.

Instead of pretending that everything is OK and her boyfriend’s uncle’s misogynist behavior can be tolerated, she chose to instead go on the attack and show him that she doesn’t approve and that she doesn’t care what he thinks about it either.

Together with her supportive and understanding boyfriend, they hatched a plan. A plan that would make their feelings about his attitudes crystal clear, whilst making him apoplectic with impotent rage in the process.

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Sometimes it’s necessary to put principles ahead of family and stand your ground. Shygirlturnedsassy told Bored Panda that the incident, which happened a year ago, has caused a rupture in the family. “Since then, he and his family have acted in some bizarrely entitled ways,” she told us. “This has caused my boyfriend and his sister to sever ties with them.”

“I believe that the uncle’s attitude is a product of his upbringing,” she continues. “His brother, ie. my boyfriend’s father, was able to change his worldview when he met his wife, who is from a very progressive family. So now, he’s the exact opposite of his brother. And yes, my boyfriend and I do have the support of his parents, his sister and his mother’s side of the family.”

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“I’m from India and yes people here can be sexist. But I don’t believe that sexism is endemic to my culture. It’s something women deal with almost everywhere. Just look at the way so-called developed nations are taking away reproductive rights.”

She has a good point.

The post received applause all round, with over 50K upvotes on Reddit and a ton of positive and supportive comments. What do you think? Have you ever had to confront an awkward and unpleasant family member? How did you go about it? Let us know in the comments below!

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James is a Bored Panda reporter who graduated with a BA in Peace And Conflict Studies and an MA in African Affairs. Before Bored Panda, he was an English teacher and also travelled a lot, doing odd jobs from beer-slinging to brickie's labourer and freelance journalism along the way. James loves covering stories about social and environmental issues and prefers to highlight the positive things that unite us, rather than petty internet squabbles about fictional characters. James is the grumpy, contradictory one who thinks that Bored Panda, due to its large audience, has a social responsibility to inspire and inform its readers with interesting issues and entertaining, well-researched stories. Let's do our bit to make our little corner of the internet a smarter, more truthful and less angry place!

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Dave P
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now wait a minute, giving a man flowers is an old tradition of showing ones respect and admiration for that man back in medieval times, you know when pink was a masculine color and roses in particular represented manhood. And cooking? Doesnt that uncle know most professional chefs are men, cooking is a very masculine task. I mean what is masculine or not is subjective to the times and changes all the time. People need to stop pigeonholing things

Bunzilla
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. Pink used to be considered a very masculine colour, since it was close to red, which is seen as a colour symbolizing strength (still is). While blue was considered a feminine colour, since it's much more 'gentle'. It didn't change until fairly recently, when people arbitrarily decided to switch them. It's all about perception. Colour is just a spectrum of light, people!

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Dave P
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now wait a minute, giving a man flowers is an old tradition of showing ones respect and admiration for that man back in medieval times, you know when pink was a masculine color and roses in particular represented manhood. And cooking? Doesnt that uncle know most professional chefs are men, cooking is a very masculine task. I mean what is masculine or not is subjective to the times and changes all the time. People need to stop pigeonholing things

Bunzilla
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. Pink used to be considered a very masculine colour, since it was close to red, which is seen as a colour symbolizing strength (still is). While blue was considered a feminine colour, since it's much more 'gentle'. It didn't change until fairly recently, when people arbitrarily decided to switch them. It's all about perception. Colour is just a spectrum of light, people!

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