Sexist rant: women

[planet planet]

This thread is BS. Men are every bit as much drama as females are. Seriously. I've heard males rant about the tone of their own friends. In this case, there's a pretty serious breach of etiquette. Besides, men and women both vent about little things other people do that offend them and it doesn't make any sense at all to tell the "offender" because usually they're over it the next day. Tell me what exactly could be accomplished by telling the bride? It's embarrassing for your roommate to bring it up, it's embarrassing for the bride. Either there's an extremely awkward pause, they never meet for lunch again, or there's an awkward solicited wedding invite.

[clevername]

I refer everyone to this rant: http://gatewayredbirds.com/forum/viewto ... =9&t=21053

Weddings seem to be the source of as much grief as joy, if not more.

[thrill]

Just take her as your plus one, although I'm sure she'd still be ticked.

[G. Keenan]

Why don't you just go directly to her and tell that you don't want to hear anymore about it and for her to tell the bride to be about her feelings?

You must have missed the post where I said I did just that.

And I'm not complaining, though I know this is the rants forum. I gave the thread the title I did to attract attention, and then posted about something that was curious to me. To me it seems like no big deal, something a person wouldn't even be upset about.

Tell me what exactly could be accomplished by telling the bride? It's embarrassing for your roommate to bring it up, it's embarrassing for the bride. Either there's an extremely awkward pause, they never meet for lunch again, or there's an awkward solicited wedding invite.

You're right, it would be awkward as hell. Which is why she shouldn't get upset about it and complain to me on three separate occasions over the course of a month, and then get irritated when I don't take her side.

[JCShutout]

If someone else expresses interest in coming, why not let them?

Because you can't afford for them to come.

If there are 200 guests, adding one more would probably raise costs by less than half a percent. Would that really break the bank?

Perhaps my male friends are unusual, but I have known them to get upset from small or even imaginary social slights. However instead of talking it out, they'd get in fights or become bitter. For example, some of my high school friends rented a house together for college and ended up hating each other because of incredibly dumb stuff like who ate the frozen burritos. When I talked to them about it, it was always understood that other people were being too dramatic and that they were simply being reasonable.

++ My brother in law screamed obscenities (no eggageration, questioned my intelligence as a person, I hope I don't have nieces or nephews) at me for forgetting to bring a can opener home from work until I showed him that we owned a second can opener.

I would be upset if I wasn't invited too, although I would be less upset if I started hanging out with this person again AFTER invitations were sent out.

Also, given that usually around 25% of people don't show, wedding girl should just tell the friend to show up and take an empty seat.

[Sausage_Gravy]

It obviously IS a big deal if you had to make a rant about it. I'm not understanding why you gave this thread the title you did? To attract attention (drama possibly), WHY? You are the same as your roommate.

[thrill]

It obviously IS a big deal if you had to make a rant about it. I'm not understanding why you gave this thread the title you did? To attract attention (drama possibly), WHY? You are the same as your roommate.

Take it easy. He already he said he did it so he could draw attention to a topic he was curious about. Nothing malicious, he was just joking around.

[JCShutout]

This thread is BS. Men are every bit as much drama as females are. Seriously. I've heard males rant about the tone of their own friends. In this case, there's a pretty serious breach of etiquette. Besides, men and women both vent about little things other people do that offend them and it doesn't make any sense at all to tell the "offender" because usually they're over it the next day. Tell me what exactly could be accomplished by telling the bride? It's embarrassing for your roommate to bring it up, it's embarrassing for the bride. Either there's an extremely awkward pause, they never meet for lunch again, or there's an awkward solicited wedding invite.

++

[Sausage_Gravy]

Whatever. It's okay for others to express their opinions/thoughts on this, but I can't?

[thrill]

Whatever. It's okay for others to express their opinions/thoughts on this, but I can't?

Nobody is being as aggressive or accusatory as you.