Even More AITA Troll Posts
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Who’s the Man?
AITA for tricking my son?
When my gay son introduced me to his boyfriend, I was naturally curious to learn who's the man and who's the woman in the relationship. For every other gay couple I've met, it's obvious, but it wasn't obvious for them. When I asked my son this question, he called it "bigoted" and refused to answer. Him and his boyfriend were supposed to come visit us at Christmas, and I decided to use trickery to find out. I told him I didn't want to have to clean blood out of the bed in the guest bedroom. He said "I don't bleed when we have sex." I then told him he just confirmed that he was the woman in the relationship. Then he hung up the phone and now he says he isn't coming to see us at Christmas. I didn't realize he'd get so mad. He's making it out as a "homophobia" thing but I think he's just mad he let himself get snookered.
Judgement: Removed by AITA moderators.
Apartment Dog
AITA for demanding my neighbors pay me the money they owe me?
My[15m] neighbors went on a two-month trip to South America and hired me to feed their dog and clean up the crap it would make in their apartment. At first, I fed the dog and cleaned up the crap every day, but later I decided to just go in and feed the dog, then clean up all the crap in one fell swoop before they got home. They got home earlier than they had told me, and when I offered to clean up the turds, told me they had already done it and they weren't giving me any payment for the work I did.
I did some research and found out that's illegal wage theft. I told them so, but they still refused even after I told them I'd report them to the state. I duly filed a report with the California Labor Commissioner's Office. That was over two months ago and I still haven't received any response. I called the office and they told me it sometimes takes a whole year before they get to complaints. I've asked my parents for help but they say it's all my fault. The past four days I've cornered my neighbor every mourning as he's walking out to his car to leave for work, screaming "where's my money, give me the money you owe me," etc. I don't know what else to do.
Judgement: YTA
Note: This story is taken from Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
Fat Grandson
AITA for accusing my daughter of lying by omission?
My daughter and her family moved to Nevada about a year and a half ago. I hadn't visited them throughout that time. I just arrived today and it should be a happy occasion but it's not. I saw that my only grandson, who's nineteen years old, is fat. He must have gained about sixty pounds since I last saw him. I was visibly shaken and upset when I walked through the door and saw him like that. My daughter told me they're "working on" his obesity issue. They don't seem to be working very hard, that's for sure. I asked her why she never told me about this and she said she "never thought" to tell me. I'm the boy's grandmother for Chrissakes, how could it never have occurred to her to tell me? I accused her of lying by omission. She started crying and told me to leave as if I committed some faux pas, so now I'm sitting at a hotel room, bored and lonely with nothing to do. She isn't even responding to my texts.
Judgement: Removed by AITA moderators.
Spiritual Experience
AITA for refusing to leave my apartment?
Six months ago my boyfriend told me he had a "spiritual experience" after taking magic mushrooms and had resolved to "turn over a new leaf." I wondered if that meant he'd do something positive like drink less or do volunteer work, but no. He said that he now thought it was "unmanly" for him to do any housework and that he was going to leave it all for me to do because I'm a woman. He said he wasn't going to lift a finger and my choices were to do it myself or "live in a pigsty." I said, bring it on. Nobody talks to me like that. So I called his bluff. For two months, neither of us did any housework. I adapted, using disposable plates and silverware. With neither of us willing to take out the trash, the kitchen floor and eventually the whole apartment became covered in a layer of trash. Finally, he said he couldn't take it anymore and apologized and agreed to resume doing his share of the housework. If anything he does more than half of it now. I felt like I had won. But now my asshole landlord is saying he's not going to renew my lease because of the trash issue, even though I always paid my rent the day it was due, even though he admitted that my apartment is presently cleaner than most of his other apartments.
Eff that. He's behaving just like my boyfriend did. I'm a 5'1" woman, and people think that means I'm a doormat who can be pushed around and won't stand up for herself. I told him if he's not extending my lease, I'm staying and am not going to pay any rent. My boyfriend, who pays half the rent although he's not on the lease, is with me, as are most of my friends and family.
Judgement: YTA
Consanguinity
AITA for asking an "inappropriate" question at Thanksgiving dinner?
I was having dinner with my girlfriend and her family and had a discussion with her brother. It went:
Him: "back when I lived with my [female] cousin, we took turns cooking dinner..."
Me: Wait, you lived with your female cousin?
Him: Yes.
Me: It was just the two of you?
Him: Yes.
Me: Were the two of you having sex?
Him: The f*** kind of question is that?
And so on. Everyone except my girlfriend sided with him and said my question was "inappropriate." I'll note he never explicitly denied having had sex with his cousin, which was suspicious. Later, my girlfriend showed me a picture of his cousin. She is very pretty. I'm convinced he at least made a pass at her.
Judgement: Removed by AITA moderators.
S Videos
AITA for refusing to delete the s*x videos?
Back in 2017, I met a girl named Mary. (not her real name) She was VERY pretty. After she turned 18, I, 22M at the time, offered to give her cocaine in exchange for sex. (It was known she had a coke habit.) She said no but later changed her mind. We had sex several times and she let me take video. Eventually, her boyfriend got out of jail and she stopped seeing me. Later, she moved away. She recently returned and is still looking pretty good. She told me she's "clean" and has no interest in having sex with me. I told her I was disappointed but it was fine, I still have the videos to watch and jack off to. She had completely forgotten about them and told me to delete them. I told her I wasn't going to upload them to the internet or show them to anyone else, but that I wouldn't delete them. She still demanded I do so. I don't think I should have to. She agreed to me making the videos and can't withdraw that agreement years later.
Judgement: Removed by AITA moderators.
Silly Rabbit
WIBTA if I acted to undermine my ex-wife's punishment of our son?
Our twelve-year-old son recently got in trouble in school because he and his friends marched down the hallway chanting, "silly n*****, rights are for whites!" I still don't know what kind of idiocy was going through their heads. He explained it by saying he wanted to "fit in" with all the other morons. Anyway, my ex-wife decided to punish him by taking away his Nintendo switch for two months. I agreed he needed to be punished but suggested that two weeks was more appropriate. Two months is a long time, particularly for a kid. When I went over to pick up him and his sister, I asked her to give me the switch. She wouldn't. I told her that she can't enforce her rules in my house. I further said that since we jointly bought it for him, it was as much my property as hers and she had no right to keep it. She said, "sue me," and I wasn't going to hire a 500$ lawyer to recover a 250$ video game console. Instead, I just bought him another Nintendo switch. He's asked me if he could take it with him when he goes back to his mom's house so he could keep it hidden. (We have joint, equal custody.) I said I'd think about it. Would it make me the asshole if I let him do it?
Judgement: YTA
Horse Embryo
AITA for laughing at my girlfriend's mom and refusing to apologize?
My girlfriend's mom told me she keeps a horse embryo in her freezer. I asked why she had it. She said "sentimental value." I honestly thought she was joking and laughed because it was so funny. But she got pissy and said she wasn't joking, which just made me laugh even harder. Then she called me a "bully" and I said, "what do you expect when do insane things like freeze horse embryos for no reason?" Then I suggested going as the frozen horse embryo for Halloween. That's when she kicked me out and told me I was banned from the house. Afterward my girlfriend told me I should apologize. I said I'm not doing that. I don't think I've ever apologized for anything in my entire adult life and I'm not going to start now.
Judgement: YTA
Open Bar
AITA for calling my friend's wedding a scam?
I (24F) was invited to a wedding which stated on the invitation that there would be an open bar. When I got there, all they had was beer. Which really pissed me off because I don't drink beer. I told the bride that the phrase "open bar" implies an ASSORTMENT of alcohol and accused her and her family of running a scam. The only reason I spent 75$ on my wedding gift was because I thought she was providing an open bar to the guests. She tried to play the victim and started crying, saying I was ruining her wedding. I took my gift and stormed off. I tried to get the other guests to join me, but they were too scared of confrontation to speak out against the scam they were victims of and just carried on like nothing happened.
Judgement: YTA
Ragebait
AITA for calling my co-worker whipped?
Two months ago, my co-worker came back to work from paternity leave. He had previously been a very good contributor to the team, always hardworking, never making excuses. Since he came back, though, his performance has been lackluster, which he excuses by pointing to the baby and how "tired" he is all the time. Unlike most of the rest of the team, I actually have children, and I was suspicious of his story. I pulled him aside and was like, yo, I never had any of these problems after the birth of my children. I soon found out why. He said his wife works FULL-TIME, so the minute he gets home from work both of them have an ocean of work to do taking care of the baby. And he said she refuses to quit her job. I said, okay, will she allow you to quit your job, reverse the gender roles, so to speak? He said he offered to do that too, but she wouldn't let him, even though they both have loads of savings. I called him whipped, told him he needed to stand up for himself. He called me an asshole.
Was I an asshole? Before you say, "it's none of your business," it is my business because the team's supposed to finish a project by mid-December and we need him operating at full capacity. I've been covering for him to our boss but I can't do that forever. And I know there's no way my boss would cut him any slack, the only thing that matters to him and his bosses is buying back stock so the company's stock price goes up. Employees, customers, the product, none of that matters, despite their talk about "corporate social responsibility."
Judgement: YTA
Airport
AITA for refusing to pick up my mom's friend at the airport?
My mom told me I was gonna get a car on my 16th birthday. When my 16th birthday came and went there was no car, supposedly because of "inflation." My mom told me I'd have to wait until my seventeenth birthday instead. Now, my seventeenth birthday is coming up, and I'm not getting a car this time either. Again because of "inflation." I put my foot down this time. I told her the real reason is because she's bad with money and has a crappy job and a loser man child husband who's never even been to college. I'm not even asking for a good car either. Buy me a ten year old used car that will have people looking down on me as a poor person, that's all I'm asking for, but apparently even that's too much. She can't even be a normal poor person and tell her kids she's poor, she has to pretend she has this money saved up to buy me a car with cause she can't face up to the fact that she's a loser.
It gets even worse. Two days after dropping this bombshell on me, she expects me to do something NICE for her. Her friend is flying in to stay with her for a few days and she needs me to pick her up at the airport. She couldn't do it herself because she had to "tidy up the house." That's how stupid she is, she can't think five seconds into the future. "I'm gonna invite someone to my house and only the day they arrive do I notice it's messy." I told her she was out of her mind to expect me to do her a favor after that and that her friend can take an Uber, I'm not the private family chauffeur. She threw a massive temper tantrum and threatened to turn off my credit card. Finally I said urgh, fine. But as I drove to the airport, I had a change of heart and decided that the way she treated me was so outrageous I couldn't possibly let it stand. So I turned around and went over to my friend's house. I turned my phone off so I wouldn't have to see her messages.
That was three weeks ago. She turned off my credit card and even after I apologized to her refuses to turn it back on. She's been saying she's gonna force me to attend therapy because I'm supposedly "disturbed." I doubt that since therapy costs money and the source of all this drama is that she's flat broke and won't admit it.
Judgement: YTA
Corner of My Eye
AITA for not telling my girlfriend a guy was watching us having sex?
I was having sex with my girlfriend and, out of the corner of my eye, I saw some creepy old guy looking through our window at us. I was having a good time and she was having a good time and I didn't want to disturb that, so I pretended not to see anything. By the time we finished, he was gone. I told her about it and she was upset with me. She said I should have stopped the sex to go confront the guy or call the cops.
Judgement: Removed by AITA moderators.
Dating Show
AITA for comparing myself to victims of the Holocaust?
Me,[F33] my Dad, my brother, and my sister-in-law were watching the dating show Bet On Love. I told them how every time I see an article about dating or watch a dating show or learn that someone's making a new dating website, I'm so relieved that I got married and don't have to deal with any of those creepy men anymore. I told them it felt like I was the person who escaped from the train heading to Auschwitz and was getting told what I had missed. My Dad and brother thought it was funny but my sister-in-law said it was "offensive" to the Jews because I was "trivializing" the Holocaust. I said, first off, there were no Jews there to take offense. Secondly, it's these Zionist Jews who are always exploiting the Holocaust to justify their war crimes, so they've got no right to complain.
Judgement: Removed by AITA moderators.
Nursery Rhyme
AITA for making fun of my sister after she blamed me for bankrupting Social Security?
I've been childfree for my entire adult life, while my sister has two kids and one on the way. She's long mocked me for being childfree and has told me I'm bankrupting Social Security by not having any kids. So you can imagine how I responded when my sister and her kids (9M and 7F) were at our parent's house and the kids started singing a Holocaust-denying "nursery rhyme." My sister yelled at them and then burst into tears, saying they keep denying the Holocaust and she's tried grounding them but nothing works. I laughed scornfully and said, "having kids sure was the best decision of your life, right? We should all have children because they're all such wonderful bundles of joy!" My Dad told me I was being an asshole and kicked me out. When I told my boyfriend, he also said I was being an asshole and that I should apologize despite her never apologizing for those "bankrupting Social Security" remarks.
Judgement: Removed by AITA moderators.
Ron Unz
AITA for telling my boyfriend to take down the giant framed photograph of Ron Unz he has hanging in our room?
My boyfriend has a giant framed photograph of Ron Unz hanging in our bedroom. It's been there since before we moved in together last month. I've told him I don't want that ugly guy looking at me while we're having sex. He said I can just cover it with a sheet but I don't like having to do that every time. He said he wants the photograph in our room to impress people and that I'm being overbearing, controlling, and unreasonable.
Judgement: Removed by AITA moderators.
Ragebait 2
AITA for not telling my husband about a racist event I participated in in high school?
When I was in high school from 1999-2003, there was this white girl who went out with a black boy. Most kids, particularly the boys, didn't like it and punished her by giving her the silent treatment. I felt compelled to participate lest they turn on me. I never told anyone this until recently, when my husband of five years asked me if there was racism at my high school. After I told him, he got mad at me for never having told him before. He proceeded to make a great big issue about something that happened over 20 years ago in a much more racist time. Of course, I regret what I did back then, but I didn't want to let it define me so I just kept it to myself.
Judgement: Removed by AITA moderators.
Ragebait 3
AITA for telling my sister she's the reason her kids don't have grandparents?
Some years ago my sister and her fiance got married. Our parents were in a very white nationalist phase and refused to pay for the wedding because her fiance was black and they didn't approve of interracial marriage. She went NC with them after that. They've since mellowed out and say they're not white nationalists anymore and want to see their grandchildren. But my sister says she won't even speak to them until they put a check for $18,000 in her hands to compensate her for the wedding they didn't pay for. I told her I only got $5,000 for my wedding, but she's holding firm in demanding $18,000. Meanwhile, she's been going "woe is me" because her kids don't have grandparents. (Her husband also has a very strained relationship with his parents.) At first when she said it I held my tongue but finally I said "the reason your kids don't have grandparents is because you're being so darn stubborn about the wedding bill."
Judgement: Removed by AITA moderators.
Submarine
AITA for telling my nephew how, as submariners, we could hear one another massurbate?
My fifteen-year-old nephew is interested in joining the military and was asking me about my experiences as a U.S. Navy submariner. I mentioned that if you join, you'll have to get used to listening to other men massurbate next to you in the bunks. He thought I was joking but I said, no, I'm not. You can't do it in the shower because there aren't private showers. When I was telling him this, my sister, his mother, overheard it and got mad at me, said I was "gross" and then took him and left the house. I apologized even though I didn't feel I did anything wrong but she was still mad and called me a creep, inappropriate, etc. I feel she's making a big production out of nothing. He's fifteen, not a little kid.
Judgement: Removed by AITA moderators.
Ocean
AITA for refusing to apologize after I said something embarrassing?
I was meeting with my girlfriend and her parents and they offered me some weed. I warned them that sometimes I say inappropriate or offensive things when I'm high. They said it's fine, they're laid back, don't care. My girlfriend raised no objection. So I got high. Sometime later, I shared with them a story from my childhood. I was in middle school and my family took a vacation to Hawaii. I was out in the ocean and was having a fun time and I didn't want to have to go back to shore and use the disgusting bathrooms. So I pulled down my swim trunks and crapped in the ocean. In my stoned state, I thought it was hilarious and pondered whether the turds were still in the ocean today.
The next day, I awoke to a series of angry text messages from my girlfriend about how I "embarrassed" her. I considered apologizing, but the last time a fight like this happened and I apologized, she told me I wasn't "sincere." So I decided to stand my ground. I told her she couldn't hold me responsible for what I said while stoned and that if she didn't heed my warning, it was her problem, not mine.
Judgement: YTA
Decolonization
AITA for sending a text making fun of my sister after she insulted me and refused to take my advice?
When my sister started dating a black guy, I warned her he was bad news. Very thuggish, not like one of those talented tenth blacks. I offered to bet money he would either cheat on her or beet her up within a year. She refused and called me a moron and an incel (the latter is true, but what's that got to do with it?) On Friday my mom texted me telling me that my sister had been beeten pretty bad and there was now a warrant out for her boyfriend's arrest. I was sad for my sister, but on another level, it felt gratifying to be right after she insulted me. So I texted her and my mom, "what did y'all think having a black boyfriend meant? vibes? papers? essays?" That's referencing the Israel-Hamas War, but they're so stupid they barely know a war's happening and didn't understand the reference. They were mad as hell and my mom's threatening to cut me out of the will. AITA?
Judgement: Removed by AITA moderators.
Florida
AITA for not wanting to get a hotel and telling my wife she's being silly?
My wife and I are going to go to St. Petersburg Florida to visit my grandmother. My wife asked if I had reserved the hotel and I said, "what hotel?" She said she wanted to get a hotel. I told her I thought we'd just stay with my grandmother but she said she didn't want to have sex in my grandmother's house. I said she's being silly. We'll have our own room and it's not like she screams during sex.
Judgement: Removed by AITA moderators.
Note: best comment was “Man, some people on this thread really don’t like sex.”
Ragebait 4
AITAH for refusing to break up with my boyfriend?
My 17 yo sister has been getting into it with our parents over them forbidding her to sleep with her boyfriend. Last week, they had a big fight and she asked if she could sleep on my couch for a couple of days. When my boyfriend came home and found her there, he got mad, called me up, and told me I had no right to invite her without his permission. I told him that she's family and that was that. To get back at me he went up to my sister and started rubbing his dick through his shorts right in front of her. She got upset and ran away. I told her if she didn't want to come back, she should go to the battered woman's shelter, which she did. Then she asked if I broke up with my boyfriend. I said no. I told her I've been losing weight and that I did an extrapolation and by May 2024 I'll be within normal BMI and so I'll be able to get a better boyfriend.(This isn't the first time he's done something crazy like this.) She got mad and said I had to break up with him or else I was "betraying" her. I said, you've got a lot of nerve. I invite you into my home and you think you can just order me around like that?
Judgement: YTA
Note: Best comment was “Surely this is fake, no real person can be this pathetic.”