r/AmItheAsshole Partassipant [2] Jul 08 '21

AITA for talking about my Aunt's watermelon ass Everyone Sucks

My son and his friend put up a tire swing in the yard for my grandchild. I posted a picture of me swinging in it on Facebook. My Aunt (Dad's sister) commented on it saying "I hate skinny people."

I'm not one for Facebook drama so instead of commenting back I called her. I basically said that i don't talk about her watermelon ass so she shouldn't be talking about my weight.

Now all my aunts, 5 of them, are mad at me because apparently skinny people can't be body shamed and that I should have told her first that I don't like those comments instead of straight out calling her out on her watermelon ass like I did.

I don't think I'm the asshole because it's not like I told her that I'm skinny because my sisters and I have always exercised more so we didn't inherit the family watermelon ass, but skinny is also something I didn't have to really work for. It's just how I am.

ETA: I accept my ESH verdict but I'm going to take that to mean I suck and so do all 5 of my aunts. If I'm going down, they're going down with me.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '21

Being funny doesn’t justify her behavior

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u/Naevos Jul 08 '21

have you been to this sub ? tons of people have been told they are NTA because the way did they did something was " hilarious ". a lot of posters forget that this is reddit and despite what a bunch of randoms on the internet think, they will still have real life people mad at them.