“After she finished, I laughed and told my nephew that maybe he should try cooking instead and leave the sport to the girls,” says the man, who has received massive support online.
A boxing coach turned to the internet for advice after a decision he made caused problems with his brother.
The anecdote, which was shared on an anonymous forum, sparked an emotional conversation among Redditors who felt the situation offered a valuable lesson.
See how misogyny, paternal pride and teenage arrogance played out in the family drama.
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AITA to embarrass my nephew?
“English is not my first language,” the man explained at the top of his post. “I teach boxing and my best student is my daughter (16) who can easily kick anyone’s ass and she beat me once (even though I was sick that day in self defense).”
He went on to describe it, providing background information: “My daughter is also a typical girl. She is beautiful, loves to wear dresses, her favorite color is pink, and she always wears make-up.” “This has made a lot of people underestimate her because for some reason people don’t think such a feminine girl is capable of boxing. Also, my daughter is not the type to brag so people don’t know how good she actually is.”
“I have a nephew (17) who started boxing about 6 months ago, and a few days ago he and a few of his friends decided to come to my gym and I started teaching them,” OP said.
The coach explained: “I saw them yesterday making fun of the girls in the gym and telling them things like ‘Why don’t you try cooking or knitting instead?’ These girls had only recently started boxing, so they weren’t very good at it.” “So I came up with an idea. I asked my nephew if he wanted to play a match against my daughter or maybe he was afraid of losing to a girl. “And he said, ‘Okay, let’s do it.’
“My daughter kicked his ass really fast,” he recalls proudly. “Normally she backs down from people who aren’t as good as her, but she didn’t this time.”
The man said in conclusion: “After she finished, I laughed and told my nephew that maybe he should try cooking instead and leave this sport to the girls. He did not say anything and just left.” “Later I received a phone call from my brother who called me a loser and told me that what I did was unfair and cruel to embarrass him like that.”
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Redditors had a lot of questions and the OP answered them all…until the post was banned
The post was quickly removed for violating Rule 5 of the AITA subreddit, with the moderators explaining: “We do not allow posts that relate to violence. This includes any mention of violence in any context.”
However, before the post was immediately banned, the OP was able to answer a lot of questions in the comments.
One reader noted, “NTA this is amazing, my nephew is an AH and needs to learn some manners and not judge a book by its cover. My brother should be mad at his nephew for what he said (if he tells him the truth) and also great that you are teaching him a lesson.”
“He’s angry at my nephew because he thinks we didn’t handle the situation well,” the OP explained. “He thinks I should have made them apologize to the girls or else my daughter would have had to back off a bit.”
One Redditor said the trainer wasn’t necessarily wrong, just “immature,” while another disagreed, explaining: “Yes, because guys who are sexist in the gym respond well to reprimands and discussion. Sometimes it just takes getting hit on “Your ass. Immature? Sure. Effective? Sure.”
Hopefully he’s learned a lesson and should be embarrassed but no [because he got] A girl handed it to him, but because he hated women.
As the OP admitted in response: “Yes, but it felt good.”
When one commenter asked: “Was my nephew black and blue after that fight?”
OP said it was “a little” worse for wear.
Another wanted more information, asking: “NTA but exactly how hard is your daughter? I’m all for teaching a lesson and hurting his ego, but not if he gets seriously injured afterwards.”
The boxing coach then clarified: “No, he was not seriously injured.” He also noted in another response that one positive aspect of all this is that “girls will get bullied.” [be returning] To the club.”
Others in the thread simply celebrated what they saw as a good life lesson taught through sport, with one writing: “I hope he learned a lesson, he should be embarrassed that he didn’t get his ass handed to him by a girl but that he was.” Being a misogynist.
But one Redditor was less confident, writing: “Narrator’s voice: He didn’t learn his lesson. If he had learned his lesson there would have been an apology phone call instead of a phone call to a parent.”
what do you think?
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