📝 AITAH for confronting my BFS ex and literally screaming at him that his false equivalency is bullshit?

By ConfectionQuirky1773 • Score: 0 • April 22, 2025 1:05 PM


I am using a throwaway because I don't want my friend to be embarrassed.

Recently her ex dumped her and she has been inconsolable. She dated a lot but she really fell in love with him and really saw him as "her person." I really liked him too because she's had some really bad luck with guys and it seemed like she was finally happy.

I don't know the exact date but within the last few weeks he dumped her when he found out her body count. She basically went into seclusion and the rest of our group were so worried about her. When we did get to talk to her we tried to talk her into not calling him or texting him but she couldn't help herself and she made the whole situation worse by begging him to take her back and throwing herself at him. She is so out of it, she moved back in with her mom to make sure that she's even safe. It's so sad to see.

I saw him out a bar last night and he tried to act like he didn't see me. That made me even more mad because I was literally supposed to be in his wedding and he acted like he didn't know me? So I literally went up to him and asked him if we could talk. He said no. I said that's crap because he literally broke my friend's heart over something that was none of his business.

He asked me if I wanted to really get into this in front of other people and I said maybe everyone there needed to know how literally shallow he was. He said he's allowed to have his standards. I literally told him that what she did before him is none of his business. He literally said to me that "if all of my previous partners were 18 and 1 day years old, Laney would probably judge me for that."

I literally got so mad at him because he was making a false equivalency because his example is disgusting and what Laney did was just living her life. He was so smarmy and said to him that "being railed by 47 guys in 3 years is also kind of disgusting." I said that no it's not and that's probably below average. He said it's way above acceptable to him just like had he only went after 18 year old girls, Laney would have broken up with him. I said again one is disgusting and shows a lifelong pattern of being gross and the other is just being young and having fun. He literally just smirked again and said "18 is pretty young and fun, do you really not get my point here?"

I literally lost my shit and told him what an asshole he was and that Laney was so much better off without him. He said he agreed and maybe we should end the conversation. I said he needed to call her and apologize to her and he said for what, having standards? I said his standards are crap. At the point the bartender said that I was causing a scene and needed to move on or she was going to cut me off and have me kicked out. I asked her if its ok with her for a guy to treat a girl like shit like he had. She said she didn't care and this wasn't the place for it. The bouncer came over and made me move back to our table and literally told me if I acted like an asshole one more time I was done.

I honestly don't think I did anything wrong and he is a loser, judgmental and he deserved to be put in his place. AITAH?

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