AITA: Asian Edition Vol 8 - What in the Shibal - S2 E02
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Ep 2 of Season 2 starts with Susie being exhausted but different reason than other more normal times... Susie woke up sitting straight up at 90 degrees. Ed had a non-eventful week but also has a neighbor whose rabbits keep getting out of their house and yard and got a new designer dog that they named Soju. Ed watched She-Devil and can't believe some of the actors in the movie. Ed and Susie are mesmerized by people who they didn't know had accents. JoJo Siwa rebrands herself but in the most tone deaf way possible. AITAs include: AITA for yelling at a 14 year old for trying to shorten my name to Jin? AITA for not letting BF correct a Chinese woman? AITA I went with my friend to a restaurant that was originally reserved for me and my wife. AITA for speaking English with my China relatives who refused to speak Mandarin? Susie also gets a note from teacher about her youngest daughter taking a math test and spiraling out of anxiety. Ed talks about his neon green rental car and accidentally deleting his dashcam footage when he hit by another driver.
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For the birthday story, I think I agree more with Ed. I think it's so rude to back out of plans, last minute, just because you would rather spend time with someone else. The fact that it was a pre-planned birthday dinner for her husband makes it worse, and I say that as someone who doesn't celebrate or particularly cares for their birthday. Was his response to her getting mad the most mature? No, but I personally don't think that's enough to call him an asshole in this situation. As for the story with terrible grammar, I think you guys misunderstood/forgot an important detail (54:54). The family in China is capable of listening and speaking in Mandarin. So they were kinda assholes for making fun of the poster, for not understanding a dialect, and then preceded isolate them from conversations even though they had a shared language of standardized Mandarin. The poster was also petty for using English as a response to that so I think everyone just kinda sucks here.
I agree with Ed on the birthday story. I’m a leap year baby so I only get a real birthday once every four years. I spent my first birthday as a real (over 21) adult with just my best friend because absolutely NONE of my friends cared enough to come even though they all said they would. That fucking sucks. I think I should be allowed to be upset about that. It’s just a day to you, but it’s super important to people like me that rarely have a birthday.
The birthday story I agree with Ed
their birthday fight made me never want to get married even though they're not : subscribed!!!!
I have to agree with Ed about the bday story. The wife did not want her husband to go, she was very unreasonable.
I think you missed the point for the China one that OP doesn't speak Szechuan. OP was raised to speak Mandarin by their parents, but was then scolded by the same parents for not being able to speak Szechuan and asking the rest of the family that can speak Mandarin to speak Mandarin to them so that they understood. Instead they were intentionally isolated in the house with functional strangers. Being a petty asshole by choosing to speak English is technically being an asshole for being petty, but OP was MUCH less of an asshole than the rest of their family, in particular their parents who made no effort to prepare their child for this. ALSO I went and relistened to the story. Isn't Banana a racist term for looking yellow but acting white? That's what a quick google search told me.
Also for the birthday thing, I get that your're not a fan of them Soogia, but I think people are also allowed to want to have a day to celebrate themselves as long as they don't act like assholes about it. And OP obviously wasn't. OP just requested that they get to spend their birthday with the most important person in their life, their wife, and were then rebuffed. Which I get that wife's friend is moving to Germany, but for the wife to get pissed at OP for using the reservation and then call OP controlling for just asking if her plans HAD to happen on his birthday, I think OP isnt an asshole at all here.
It's actually rare that I disagree with Soogia and Ed in aita stories, but somehow I disagree with two of them. The third story, not the final verdict, but some of the nuances. And the last story, I disagree with the verdict. I would explain but it's 2:45 AM so I need to go to sleep. I'll explain if I get asked cause I'll probably forget that I left this comment here when I wake up if I don't get the notification that someone commented on this post.
Im gonna be totally honest…I stopped caring about the verdict on the birthday story like 10 min in. But i was quite entertained by their debate. It felt like I was at a family party and was watching two cousins fight over who won a card game. Harmless but passionate debate.
Thank you on the jojo siwa thing!!!! You insult Elton and everyone else who paved the way for you. I hope Simmons sues her too.
I felt that the last story regarding the Chinese family did the girl wrong although she should've spoken Mandarin when approached. Her family knew both Szechuan and Mandarin dialects, she only knew Mandarin. It would be thoughtful to communicate in the dialect that included everybody (unless it was willful on the family's part to exclude). This has happened to me in my family when I learned Mandarin they would switch to Cantonese to keep it "private" (until I started learning Cantonese). My family speaks three different Chinese dialects and accommodates friends and guests depending on their respective dialects. I think it comes down to how she made the request - if she asked politely versus demanding - to determine if she was the a-hole from the beginning. But definitely an a-hole for dialoguing on her part speaking English.
I mean, is she really an asshole for responding to people who speak to her in a language she doesn't understand with a language they don't understand? It seems like the entire family knows OP can only speak Mandarin (And her parents could have taught her Szechuan but chose to only teach her Mandarin, yet scolds her for requesting the family to speak in Mandarin to her) yet continued to speak in Szechuan around her. Is she just supposed to sit in silence like a mute idiot because she can't understand the language?
English-speaking girl: ESH. It's not like she asked them to speak English, she literally asked them to speak their second native language when talking to her.