Watch as I magically enrage all the women in the room....

[quillwing717]

So a co-worker was telling us about the last fight she had with her boyfriend, and why she's been feeling so bad for the past couple of days. Dunno what the fight was actually about, but in the midst of the back-and-forth came this charming tidbit:

Neanderthal: You know, I thought you were attractive until I brought you home and took all your

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[patchcat]

*keyboard smash of rage* WHY is she still with him?! That is just -- *gets the bat*

You're right. Women have enough issues with image and the way the world perceives us for the men who are "supposed" to love us to be adding to it.

[quillwing717]

Just make sure the bat is wooden. Metal might not break, but wood is more effective.

I seriously just wanted to beat him when she told us that, and I wasn't the only one. That's just so far beyond the realm of acceptability, I can't see how she can still be living with him. Not because I don't think he deserves to be forgiven (some knee-crawling groveling might help start that along), but because I'm quite sure I just couldn't be with him after that. Those words would haunt every good and bad moment after that with him. I wouldn't be able to believe that he saw anything more in me than that.

It would probably take a miracle for it not to be over. I feel really bad that she has to go home to him tonight. She's such a sweet, beautiful girl, and he took that away from her because he was angry. I offered her a place to stay if she wanted it, ever.

Auggh! I just want to throw things at him, and I've never even met him. X_x

[quillwing717]

Apparently, most of the time they're fine, and he can be sweet and considerate sometimes. It's only when they fight that he pulls out the guns and swords and goes all out to hurt her in any mean and base way he can. I can, if I'm trying to be fair, see her point.

But then I come to my senses. Just because he lives with some kind of life-threatening condition, and uses that as an excuse to stay at home and feel useless doesn't mean he has the right to play butcher with her feelings. He needs to deal with his issues for himself, and she needs to find someone who will appreciate the beauty she has. She's really very pretty, you know. Looks like Christina Hendricks.

I will never get over it, and I just heard it second party. *snarl* The jerk.

[akarii]

RAWR KILL HIM.

For all the aforementioned things. For being a self-complaisant, chauvinistic and sexist PIG. MY GOD WHAT A MISERABLE LITTLE SAUSAGE I DON'T EVEN.

I HOPE SHE FINDS THE DETERMINATION TO BOOT HIM OUT IMMEDIATELY, BECAUSE ASDFGHJKLÖ$$$$!!!

[quillwing717]

Oooh. "Miserable little sausage"

I like.

I guess he was her first "real boyfriend", and they've been together for a while now. And I should point out, to be fair, that he's probably got some psychological issue over the not working because he might die thing.

And now that I'm done being fair, she could do so much better, because she's a nice, lovely woman. And yes, she should kick his sorry, deadbeat, self-pitying ass out the door and find herself someone who will treat her like she deserves.

I wish she would.

[akarii]

Tell me she has. Make my day. Please?

[quillwing717]

Nope; she's still with him.

I have more stories, though, including him shoving her against a wall with his hand over her mouth, and one of him throwing her on the bed, and just recently of him telling her to put some clothes on because "no one wants to see that."

Honestly, she fights dirty, too, but all that means is that they need to split because they don't have a healthy relationship.

On the bright side, if he ever visits the restaurant, that'll be the end of him, because by now we have several clever plans on how to do away with him. One involves a lacrosse stick.

We're very creative, we waitresses. ^_^

[inusdemoness]

Wow, she has self-esteem issues that have allowed him to move right in and smash what's left of her confidence and self-worth. No one can change that but her. She needs to take her power back from him and until she does there's nothing to be done.

If it were me? I'd knock his teeth down his throat and he could shit them out tomorrow.

[quillwing717]

*cuddles teh Demi*

It's true; she even acknowledges her self-esteem issues--and that he knows about them, which is why the dig hurt so much. The monstrous little weevil was going for her soft spot.

You should go knock his teeth out. For real. We'll sell tickets, and give her all the money. ^_^

[inusdemoness]

It would be my pleasure! Poor girl. I really do hate to see women who don't know their own worth.

[rya_kelley]

Fat remarks beget small penis remarks. Just saying.

[inusdemoness]

<3 you so much.

[quillwing717]

Huh.

Why didn't I think of that?

You're a scary woman. For real.

I bow to you.

[rya_kelley]

Mine is not a bend over and take it culture. *Always* fight back.