Ryshad, back where I come from, yo mama jokes is fightin’ words.
To the rest of you who’re confused: no, the context was pretty tasteless. After he made the comment, everyone looked at him like we were at the Queen’s banquet and he’d just farted from a six-burrito dinner.
When I was 18, I had an older male cousin who kind of thought of me as the ‘kid sister’ type who he had to make sure no man ever saw me in a sexual way at all.
I resented it like hell that he treated me like some baby who he was supposed to lord over and make sure that no male could ever get near me or show an interest or make an off color comment. I hated it.
He never gave it up, and it ended up causing a very, very huge fight that ended with my refusal to ever speak to him again. It’s been six years, and the only word I’ve said to him since was ‘Congratulations’ the day he got married.
Really man, and I don’t want to just be rude, but maybe you should think about whether or not your sister wants you treating her like a little kid whom you have to play the over protective father figure for.
Because if I were her, and you were deciding when it was and wasn’t OK for a guy to look at me, I’d be pretty damn offended…
At first I thought that this was a really crass and rude thing to say, and that you had every right to be upset. But…
The guy sounds a lot like my little brother. Completely and totally socially inept. (My brother has self-esteem problems stemming from ADHD.) And if my brother had said that, he wouldn’t have meant it as you took it. It would have been a (failed) attempt to gain acceptance by joining in on the kidding. Which sounds like what this guy was doing all night long.
Maybe if you see him again, instead of being pissed at him, say or do something to make him feel accepted so that he won’t have to try so hard. It’s possible that you’ll find out that he is an ok guy. (You can even be blunt about it. A guy at work became a lot less annoying when DH told him, “Hey. Stop. We’re friends, you don’t have to try to make me like you anymore, ok?”)
Well, I have a big brother, and he pretty much respects me enough to figure I can handle things on my own.
But one time I dated a friend of his for awhile, I was honest with the guy about the fact that I only viewed him as a friend, and he SAID he felt fine about that. I can only think that he was thinking I would change my mind or something, because when I finally decided that he had more feelings for me than I had or was GOING to have for him, and I told him that I had to quit spending one-on-one time with him because I thought he was in love with me and I didn’t feel that way, he got all bitter and angry toward me. Which was awkward since we all hung around together in a group, and he kept making snide comments. VERY snide comments.
So my big brother finally took this guy aside and told him that it didn’t matter that he (my brother) loved him ( the guy) like a brother…if he said one more nasty thing to or about me, he (my brother) was going to break the guys face.
I never even knew about my brother’s intervention until years later…all I knew was that the guy quit verbally picking on me. I was SO relieved.
Sometimes a girl just needs to have a wonderful big brother to help her out. I appreciate mine VERY much.
Oh, and the guy in question got over it finally and we are the best of friends now. Sometimes time DOES heal all wounds.
I still don’t think that what the guy said was that bad, and if I were the sister I don’t think I’d like my brother trying to play the protective father-figure, especially not since she’s 20, not 13.