Son thinks this is abuse - seriously

[justilou1]

I made a meal containing aubergine, mushrooms and pumpkin. (How very dare I, right?) He quite enjoyed it until he noticed. (He’s 13, btw...) He started telling me that it was abusive expecting him to eat a meal with ALL of these disgusting veggies in it, and I dared to laugh! Massive mantrum with bowl-slamming ensued. (Can guarantee that this wouldn’t have happened if his Dad wasn’t visiting his own father up at the hospital...)
So.... what is this really? Man of the house control/dick-swinging crap? (Suspect so...). I’ve noticed a bit of this lately, and I want to deal with this myself and not pass it off to his father to deal with. It seems like that would defeat the purpose.

It’s a 13 thing. It’s unpleasant, but don’t keep it going by serving the meal up for breakfast, that solves nothing. Refuse to engage and it’ll pass.

Seriously op, why are you so disparaging about yoyr son - mantrum, dick swinging and now manflu. Do you talk about yoyr daughters in similar ways?

I would be worried that theres something else going on, like bullying, given the outbursts and stealing. Id look into that first before belittling him.