This happened last weekend and I still feel like I’m vibrating with rage. I (26F) was driving my uncle (56M) to a family reunion because his car is in the shop and my aunt had other plans. I was doing it as a favor. He helped out a lot when I was a kid, and even though we’ve grown apart, I figured I could suck it up for a few hours.

Big mistake.

The second we got on the highway, he started in with his usual Fox News-style nonsense. At first, I just zoned out. But then we passed a billboard in Spanish and he went on this rant like, “This is America. If you can’t read English, get the hell out.” I told him to chill, and he immediately shot back with some garbage about how “you can’t say anything anymore without the woke mob coming for you.”

I tried to change the subject, but it just got worse. He started going off about how “women these days just want to cry about equality while letting men in dresses take over their sports,” and how “we used to be a strong country before we let the immigrants and feminists ruin it.”

I told him I wasn’t going to listen to that kind of hate in my car. He LAUGHED. Told me I was being “emotional” and that “this is why women shouldn't be in charge of anything serious.”

So I pulled over at the next rest stop, told him to get out, and when he realized I was serious, he called me a “disrespectful little girl.” I told him, “Better a disrespectful girl than a hateful old man,” and I drove off.

He was stranded for four hours before some family friend picked him up. Now half the family is furious with me. My mom says I embarrassed the whole family. My cousin texted me calling me a “liberal snowflake.” My aunt blocked me. Apparently he was “visibly shaken” when he arrived, like he hadn’t just spent the whole ride spewing poison.

But here’s the thing: I’m not sorry. I don’t care if you’re family. I don’t care if you’re “from a different time.” If you talk about people like they’re less than human, you don’t deserve the comfort of my car, my time, or my silence.

So yeah. Maybe I caused drama. But I’m done making myself small to keep the peace for men like him.

AITA?