A few days ago I (54m) picked up my daughter (15f) and son (18m) from school. Whilst in the car they got into a fight about how I guess my daughter was dating my son’s best friend. As they were arguing with each other my son screamed, “Whatever, I’ll just fuck your trailer trash, slut of a best friend.” I immediately intervened as I did not raise my son to talk about woman like that.

I told him that he needed to learn how to be a real, respectful man before I allow him to have any association with me, and that he’s too old to not know how to treat women. I then told him to get out of the car and that he’d be walking home from now on.

My wife is pissed at me now. I honestly don’t see a problem with it. We only live 10 minutes from the school and when I made him get out of the car we were less than 3 miles away. I’m not sure about nowadays, but when I was in school most kids walked way farther everyday.

Was I too harsh with my punishment? My wife is also adamant that what he said was just normal behavior for a teenage boy, but I personally don’t think it’s acceptable for anyone, much less a young man to talk like that. AITA?