Jasmine
So I have had run ins with my friend’s boyfriend for sometime due to his incessant interrupting but today he finally tipped me off the edge. I had been sitting with my boyfriend when a group of my male friends came over and started talking to us. I tuned out briefly but tuned back in to hear my friend’s boyfriend, let’s call him Ed, say to my boyfriend, let’s call him Tim, ‘ah, bros before hoes’ and signalling towards me. I looked at him and said ‘are you calling me a hoe?’ he then laughed and said ‘no… but…’. I looked at him with disgust and walked away leaving my boyfriend to catch up with me. I then spoke to Tim afterwards and explained why I was pissed off, saying that even if Ed didn’t mean it in a horrible the phrase in itself is mean and derogatory and was directed at me. Tim then replied ‘Yeh well I’m sure he didn’t mean it, you just have to laugh it off really.’ No. I do not have to laugh it off. Women have been ‘laughing off’ derogatory comments and actions for too long and I am sick to death of having to put up with everyday sexism which is so common people don’t even notice it. I am sick of, how did Trump put it? ‘Locker room banter’.