so i (21f) have a pet rabbit named molly. she’s a little brown fluffball who lives in my room, is litter trained, and honestly just vibes. she doesn’t bite, she doesn’t chew wires, she just chills and eats kale. she’s my emotional support animal and i love her to death.

my roommate (22f), let’s call her raven, is in a performance art class and she’s been working on her final piece. she said it’s about “domestication, loss of control, and reclaiming identity through silence.” i didn’t fully get it, but i was like okay, sounds cool, go off.

until she asked if she could borrow molly for the piece.

i asked what she needed her for and raven said she wanted to “sit silently in a glass box with a domestic animal for two hours while playing distorted housewife audio loops” and occasionally “offer the rabbit symbolic objects like plastic diamonds and wilted roses.” she said the rabbit’s natural stillness and unpredictability would “mirror the tension of the feminine experience.”

i was like… absolutely not. molly gets stressed easily. she hates being picked up and loud sounds freak her out. the last thing she needs is to be surrounded by weird echoey audio in a glass box while people watch. i told her she could use a stuffed animal or like, literally anything else.

she got super offended and told me i was “limiting the rawness of the piece” and that i “wasn’t engaging with the art community in good faith.” she said it was hypocritical of me to eat meat but not let her borrow a bunny for two hours (???). now she’s sulking around the apartment and saying i’m sabotaging her creative vision.

aitah for refusing to let her use my actual living rabbit in her weird abstract art project?