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Yet another example of Redditors not having a working bullshit detector: AITA for canceling my daughter's 16th birthday party?
TL;DR: OP's daughter and her soccer teammates make a TikTok making fun of OP's husband for baking, calling him gay. OP is furious with her daughter and threatens to cancel her sweet sixteen. The girls and their parents agree to apologize and perform restitution. Everyone learns a lesson, the husband forgives them, the sweet sixteen goes ahead.
You know how I know this is all bullshit? This part:
This is where you can tell the author wasn't keeping notes about their own story. By this point the video had already been deleted. In the first post, the video wasn't even the reason OP was punishing her daughter, it was because she called her stepdad a faggot when she was on the phone.
If the video was already deleted, it literally can’t function as leverage for this absurdly elaborate punishment that involves other people's kids cooking and baking for hours on end together in another family's house for multiple days in a row. Yeah, no. There are tons of reasons I can think of off the top of my head for why most parents would not agree to this, even if they were 'mortified' by the video. Basic questions like "What are you going to do if my daughter injures herself?" spring to mind.
And all of this relies on OP's threat to report the video (which is apparently in a state of Schrodinger's deletion) to the school. A video that was not targeting another student and not threatening anyone. "This video makes fun of a student's stepdad" wouldn't fall under any school's threshold for disciplinary action.
And yet not a single Redditor who read this story smelled bullshit here? This would be considered bad even by the standard of the Disney channel.
TL;DR: OP's daughter and her soccer teammates make a TikTok making fun of OP's husband for baking, calling him gay. OP is furious with her daughter and threatens to cancel her sweet sixteen. The girls and their parents agree to apologize and perform restitution. Everyone learns a lesson, the husband forgives them, the sweet sixteen goes ahead.
You know how I know this is all bullshit? This part:
I contacted the parents of the girls who appeared in the video. A few asked to see the video, and all were deeply embarrassed and ashamed. I told them that we were willing to delete the video and would not refer it to the school as long as the girls apologized to Bruce, helped to prepare the food for the gymnastics dinner, and gave up the dance to volunteer at the party and serve meals. Every parent I spoke with was very grateful and agreed it was a fair consequence of their actions.
So every day after school from Monday - Thursday the girls came over and worked in our kitchen, cutting up vegetables, boiling pasta, breading chicken, layering lasagna, making buttercream, mixing up cake batter, rolling out cookie dough, cutting cookies, washing dishes, and just about anything else we could find for them.
At the end of Thursday, I asked the girls what part of what they did this week was gay. None of them had an answer. All of them approached Bruce at some point and apologized for being a part of the video.
If the video was already deleted, it literally can’t function as leverage for this absurdly elaborate punishment that involves other people's kids cooking and baking for hours on end together in another family's house for multiple days in a row. Yeah, no. There are tons of reasons I can think of off the top of my head for why most parents would not agree to this, even if they were 'mortified' by the video. Basic questions like "What are you going to do if my daughter injures herself?" spring to mind.
And all of this relies on OP's threat to report the video (which is apparently in a state of Schrodinger's deletion) to the school. A video that was not targeting another student and not threatening anyone. "This video makes fun of a student's stepdad" wouldn't fall under any school's threshold for disciplinary action.
And yet not a single Redditor who read this story smelled bullshit here? This would be considered bad even by the standard of the Disney channel.





