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AITAH for telling my girlfriend she was the perpetrator, not the victim, in her "trauma"?

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My [25m] girlfriend [24f] and I have been dating for about a year. I'll call her Casey here. We have lived together for two months.

A few hours ago, Casey approached me saying that she wanted to talk about something "serious." At first, I didn't know what to expect, but she wanted to share something traumatic that had happened to her before we met, and she asked if I would be willing to listen. I of course said yes, I would, if she'd be willing to share.

Casey hesitated for a second, like she wasn't sure about telling me, but then gave me the full story. What happened was when she was a university student, she had a crush on a pizza guy. He worked at a small shop near her apartment, and he would often deliver to her. She wanted to ask him out, but she wasn't sure how, so she consulted her friends.

Her friend group talked over it, and then one brought up the suggestion of answering the door in lingerie. The others jumped onto the idea quickly, and while Casey had doubts, they quickly convinced her to try it. They apparently even went shopping for the lingerie together.

Casey put on makeup, did her hair, and ordered a pizza. When the guy came, she did exactly as her friends suggested: she opened the door in skimpy lingerie. The pizza guy initially didn't address it, but Casey, "desperate," pushed the topic. She asked him, "What do you think about my outfit?"

He responded, "Dude, please don't do that," and then left. At this point in the story, Casey was near tears, and she told me how embarrassed and sick she felt.

I almost expected more from the story, but she was finished. I then said, "Uh … you do realize that you weren't the victim, but the perpetrator, right?" She literally recoiled at this comment. She elaborated by blaming everybody else: her friends for "tricking" her, society in general, and even the pizza guy that she sexually harassed.

To this I responded that she's like those guys who touch themselves in hotels, intentionally getting the maids to walk in on them. She insisted it was completely different, and a full-blown argument ensued. She finished the argument with "I came to you to feel better and now I feel WORSE!" and stormed away.

I don't even know. I feel so disgusted with her right now. Was I the butthole for my comments when she felt vulnerable?

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I came to you to feel better and now I feel WORSE!

Low-IQ moid did not see the obvious and actually tried to think about the situation logically instead of just consoling her. Low-IQ foid couldn't see that she obviously had agency.

Also, "trauma" lol. You had an embarrasing moment, calm down.

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I'd say IQ unknown on the moid, he did the right thing by not feeding into her catastrophism over such a stupid moment.

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Low-IQ, he posted on reddit about it. Besides, if your partner opens up about something shameful in the past, it's a bad idea to respond with condemnation. It's a good idea to talk about her agency in the situation and highlight that she should not blame everyone else for the decision. She should just accept that she made a mistake to move on.

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Low-IQ, he posted on reddit about it

Can't argue against this.

But otherwise, idk, this really is such a stupid thing to get hung up over that I'd legitimately wonder if my gf is r-slurred. I'd be reflexively dismissive and contemptuous if I heard anyone crying about how their crush wasn't seduced by some porn-brained attempt.

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Lol. So idealistic.

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"I may be the biggest r-slur on earth but at least I think it's better to not condemn people for their r-slurredness"

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Have you considered not being an incel :marseyviewerstare:?

To be fair, if your partner is as r-slurred as her, the approach specified may be idealistic.

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The catastrophe has already happened. Founded or not it needs soothing.

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If he was thinking about it logically he'd have steered her to a place he could talk to her about that, instead of hopping on it to accomplish nothing except flexing his morality

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