This Reddit Dad Criticizes His Teen Son For Driving 'Like a Woman' & Then Wonders Why He's The AH

Go ahead and check your mirrors and buckle up, dear reader, because this AITA Reddit post is a jolting ride. One dad mistakenly took to the internet on Sunday to share his tale of woe about his teenage son who is learning how to drive.

When the father-son duo started practicing together, his son was “sometimes too hesitant” and “lacked confidence” when merging on the freeway and changing lanes. We agree with OP when he said this hesitance and driving too slow can be dangerous.

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“When he does [this], I would tell him he is driving like a woman,” this dad wrote.

Oh. No. He. Did. Not.

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At this point, many readers stopped reading and jumped to the comments to say they didn’t need to hear another word from this a—hole. And you know what? We wouldn’t blame you if you decided to do the same. It’s Monday, it’s 2023, and we know you’re tired of this sh*t.

“I did not mean it in a bad way,” OP said. Are you kidding me? You said he was a dangerous driver and then likened it to driving “like a woman,” but you “didn’t mean it in a bad way?”

“Make it make sense,” one exasperated commenter wrote.

He went on to say that his daughter is a “great driver.” *Gasp!* A woman who is a great driver?! Is this the eighth wonder of the world? Guess what, Dad: Not only is your daughter a great driver, but women are statistically better drivers than men. We’d dive more into that, but unfortunately, this dad did not slow down.

OP said that his son was upset and asked him to stop using that phrase.

“I have no issue stopping with that remark and replacing it with something else,” said the dad, who no doubt has a whole lineup of offensive phrases at the ready, “but I don’t appreciate being lectured as if I am sexist when I was just trying to help him, and used the phrase more like an idiom.”

Excuse us, Sir, but you spelled “idiot” wrong.

This is not an idiom, one commenter pointed out. An idiom is “it’s raining cats and dogs.” This is a targeted insult like “you throw like a girl.”

“What you’re doing is trying to shame your son into being a more aggressive driver by questioning his manhood by comparing him to what you obviously believe to be the weaker gender,” they said.

The mom supposedly agrees and thinks her son was being “petty,” but the couple’s daughter is on her brother’s side. The siblings “have become closer” lately, and she is “influencing his views” (aka teaching him not to be a misogynist), so the dad can’t get away with making the same asinine comments he used to.

How terrible. *Eye roll*

“Gotta love that little snippet,” a Redditor wrote. “Like, ‘Yeah, I taught my son to think that sexism is cool and funny, but now he’s all namby-pamby because his sister is giving him an earful! Women, am I right guys? Guys?!'”