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He says 'most women would just laugh', I think he's delusional. Settle a debate please

726 replies

TheFairSheep · 18/01/2025 23:30

Hi all. I paid for my boyfriend to get a tattoo yesterday as a gift as he has wanted one for a while. I saw these messages earlier of a conversation he had with a friend whilst getting the tattoo. I was (I believe) rightfully disgusted and annoyed. He says it was just banter and 'lads being lads'. He apologised but added that most women in relationships would just laugh if they saw those messages and maybe be a little annoyed but I'm overreacting.

We live together and I am pregnant. Am I being unreasonable here? (His friend asked who was doing his tattoo, he sent the screenshot. I have blanked out her details for privacy).

He says 'most women would just laugh', I think he's delusional. Settle a debate please
OP posts:
GrammarTeacher · 19/01/2025 07:30

CandyLeBonBon · 19/01/2025 07:30

I'm confused. Is the female friend the one doing the tattoo and is she the one offering the BJ?

I mean it's hard to tell because it looks like a toddler wrote it but it's pretty grim.

I'd be pissed off too!

There is no female friend. It’s a female tattooist being discussed by some not particularly literate men.

Meadowfinch · 19/01/2025 07:35

Honestly OP, where did you find him? In a gutter?

Throw him back and find a man who's worth the air he breathes.

JMSA · 19/01/2025 07:35

*Just what I thought but what else can realistically be expected from a chap who wants a tattoo and has a partner willing to buy one for him - for his birthday? It is just too tacky and chavvy for words.

Op, why on earth are you pregnant with this person?*

Nobody is more disgusted than me, but I actually find this shitty reply completely unhelpful to the OP.

GretchenWienersHair · 19/01/2025 07:36

TheFairSheep · 19/01/2025 00:40

Thanks for the replies. I did ask him if he would laugh it off if it was the other way round - apparently its different because I'm a woman, lads banter like that and 'you'd be doing the sucking'. Lovely.

How old are you both?

Kianai · 19/01/2025 07:36

Bleugh.

Depending on how far along I was I'd be seriously reconsidering allowing this scummy illiterate lout to breed.

Chuchoter · 19/01/2025 07:36

What a pair of illiterate creeps.

Seeing as you're having a child with an oaf, please don't let him help with Homework when the child is of a school age.

It's absolutely appalling that two grown men would converse like a couple of Fuckwits! ..

Oodlesandoodlesofnoodles · 19/01/2025 07:37

His friend actually reminds him of the boundary: “U w ya bird still” as if hinting he has crossed a line.

But instead of stepping back behind the boundary and saying something like “yeah mate she’s pregnant actually” he pushes back and says “she’s not here though”.

He’s a problem and he doesn’t respect you.

Zippedydodah · 19/01/2025 07:38

Twiglets1 · 19/01/2025 05:49

I’m sorry you have such low standards in men @TheFairSheep

He doesn’t sound like he respects women and his friend sounds even worse.

I agree, yet another woman stuck with a scummy, ignorant partner now she’s pregnant and he’s showing his true colours.

FatAgain · 19/01/2025 07:40

She doesn’t need to be stuck with him. She can leave.

I would not forgive any of that.

westernlights · 19/01/2025 07:41

I would dump this waste of oxygen and then show the tattooist the texts. She can choose to embarrass him or ban him from from getting his next artistic illiterate shitty tattoo.

BettyBardMacDonald · 19/01/2025 07:41

TheFairSheep · 19/01/2025 00:40

Thanks for the replies. I did ask him if he would laugh it off if it was the other way round - apparently its different because I'm a woman, lads banter like that and 'you'd be doing the sucking'. Lovely.

Not any time soon, one hopes.

Chuchoter · 19/01/2025 07:42

Mental image of the op's partner and his chum -

Tell me that I'm not the only one ....

www.meme-arsenal.com/en/create/template/971133

IWasBornIn1989 · 19/01/2025 07:46

Sexist and illiterate 🤢. I think my lady bits would clamp shut for ever more.

StrawberryDream24 · 19/01/2025 07:48

He has massive double standards for men and women.

He jokes about cheating on you with someone you're paying to do something/as a gift for him.

The fact that they somehow think a tattoist is going to give a free blow job or a blowjob at all is ....bizarre. Like they watch too much porn/sexualise everything.

His mate doesn't even know if you're still in a relationship, yet you're pregnant.

SallymetLarry · 19/01/2025 07:49

I can hardly understand a word on that image.

They both seem illiterate.

localnotail · 19/01/2025 07:49

I would not find it funny. Its vile. Also, I would not be with someone who types like that. I would not understand whf he is on about, its barely English

KimFan · 19/01/2025 07:49

God, what a loser. How old is he, 15?! This would give me the ick on a different level and I’d be running for the hills as far away from this illiterate sad sack as fast as my legs could carry me! 🤢

Naddd · 19/01/2025 07:50

Curtainqueen · 18/01/2025 23:35

Saw these messages? You mean you snooped on his phone?

Yeah that's the important part!, 🤣😂

localnotail · 19/01/2025 07:52

TheFairSheep · 19/01/2025 00:40

Thanks for the replies. I did ask him if he would laugh it off if it was the other way round - apparently its different because I'm a woman, lads banter like that and 'you'd be doing the sucking'. Lovely.

Vile.

TENSsion · 19/01/2025 07:52

SummerFeverVenice · 18/01/2025 23:37

What is there to be disgusted about? I’ve had similar texts between myself and friends about a fit bloke at times. It’s discreet.

So you’ve never had a good look, sent messages and had a giggle over a fit server? Or guy at the gym? Or a poolside on a girls holiday?

No. Never. Not once in 14 years.

Bs0u416d · 19/01/2025 07:52

BananaNirvana · 18/01/2025 23:34

😬😳🙄

Grim and thick. Not my bag.

This.

GeorgeMichaelsCat · 19/01/2025 07:54

I can't believe this is the first sign of what this guy is really like.

TENSsion · 19/01/2025 07:54

OP, this would be unforgivable for me. I don’t think I’d ever forget this exchange, particularly the part about knowing what your parter “is like”, implying that he regularly cheats on you.

KimFan · 19/01/2025 07:54

Mental image…..

He says 'most women would just laugh', I think he's delusional. Settle a debate please
5128gap · 19/01/2025 07:58

SummerFeverVenice · 18/01/2025 23:37

What is there to be disgusted about? I’ve had similar texts between myself and friends about a fit bloke at times. It’s discreet.

So you’ve never had a good look, sent messages and had a giggle over a fit server? Or guy at the gym? Or a poolside on a girls holiday?

Laughing at the suggestion a female tattoo artist would give blow jobs to her customers is bad enough for me. You think that's OK?