It's Dh's birthday, my FIL and BIL and his wife are downstairs with DH and my 2 DS.
And I am up here in an absolute RAGE because my FIL thinks it's funny to degrade women at every slip of conversation.
We are watching quiz shows on the TV just to pass time until BIL and his wife appeared and were having a great time shouting out answers until he started getting all sexist - apparently my mum and I were shouting out answers that 'only brain dead women would know'.
Cue a huge shouty arguement between him and my mum (she was a single parent who brought up daughters - there's a shit load of stuff that we had to know to 'get by' without men ffs!)
I had to get up and leave the room, I am so offended by some of the stuff he was saying - seriously. He thinks he is hilarious, I am actually properly horrified. DH has noticed - apparently I'm to let it go, as it's 'just his humour'.
Why is this ok?
He is saying this stuff in front of my two boys(who are thankfully very young and hopefully not taking it on board!), who I want to bring up to show that women are just as capable as men and should be respected - by god if he puts stuff like those jokes in their heads I'll murder him!
Anyway, I'm off back downstairs now, as it is DH's birthday. BIL is here now. Just had to get that out.
AIBU to be raging? I don't think so. But I'm sure I'm about to be contradicted somehow.
There's just some things that are downright wrong. And I'm not usually very easily offended!