Woman Asks If It Is Justified To Feel Offended When Called A Word That's Considered Normal In Australia

It is all about the context...

Daphnie

• Published in Interesting
• April 26, 2023

We are back today with yet another Reddit post from the AITA thread that we'll be looking at today. We enjoy going over these posts because they are always so fun and they typically have a lot of engagement and comments on them.

These posts are usually submitted by people looking for unbiased opinions or advice on the situation happening in their lives. With that being said, this woman is on vacation with her boyfriend in Australia when she was called an American slur. It caught her off guard and brought up some unresolved trauma which led to her making a bit of a scene.

She wants to know if she's wrong for reacting this way because she's heard that this slur is sometimes used toward friends as well. In the comments, people reassured her that she was not overreacting and unfortunately, her boyfriend's brother was being very rude to her.

If you are interested in hearing the full story and seeing the advice people left for her then keep on reading as we dive in and check out the entire post she submitted and some of the best comments that people left on her post. Without further ado, let's dive in and see what happened.

OP starts off her post by explaining a little bit about her and her boyfriend, where they are located and just how the dynamic is between them.

She then goes into details of how she was going to meet his parents and the dynamic of their family as well as how they treated her.

Then this is when she gets into the story and she starts by explaining what she was doing and what she said that triggered this.

She says what jokes and things the brothers were saying to her as she was cleaning up and how her boyfriend responded.

Then this is when the slur was used and she was taken aback by the whole situation. She called them out and let them know not to do it again.

The brothers think she's overreacting but she wants to know if she's wrong for being upset and offended or if that was a normal reaction.

People in the comments quickly stated that OP was NTA and that this is not how this word is used.

This is true too. She needs to read the room and if she felt like his jab was real then it probably was especially if they were already making jokes.

This person broke it down heavily and let OP know that she was not wrong for how she reacted and the brothers clearly meant something bad by it.

They continued saying that she shouldn't let them get to her but that she should know that this was not meant to be a joke.

This situation kind of does suck, and we feel bad for OP that she was greeted in this manner by her boyfriend's brothers. Maybe she can give them a taste of their own medicine when she gets together with them again since they like to make jokes so much.

Find some word that brothers would find offensive, and then shake it off like it's a common thing in Canada...

Daphnie