Woman Throwing Food on Boyfriend's Floor After 'Demeaning' Prank Cheered

A girlfriend has been praised online after admitting that she threw pasta sauce over her boyfriend's floor and refused to clean it because he called her a "b*tch."

In a popular post to Subreddit "Am I the A**hole," the girlfriend shared that she had been at her boyfriend's apartment over the weekend to make him pasta and meatballs while he studied for exams. The post gained over 30,000 votes.

"I told him dinner was ready and he goes 'what's for dinner tonight, B*TCH?" with a lot of emphasis on the last word.

"I was fed up, I'd had a pretty rough day with work and I have some awfully bad associations with that word being used by other people in my life who were pretty abusive.

"So, I was so irritated that I dropped the pot of pasta sauce I'd been carrying right on the ground and was like 'well, nothing's for dinner tonight now, and I better not hear you using that word again, it's for the girls,'" she wrote.

The term "b*tch," rose in use as a slur against women in the 1920s, according to Vox, coinciding with the women's suffrage movement and the ratification of the 19th Amendment in the U.S. The 19th Amendment gained women the right to vote.

In 1915, most publications of the word referred only to a female canine. By 1930 however, the instances of the term being used as a reference to a woman or women outnumbered those that referred to canines.

Although the term was reclaimed by feminists in the 70s, it's still used as one of the harshest sexist slurs against women. Even in the 18th century, the term was "the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman, even more provoking than that of whore," according to The Atlantic.

For this girlfriend, the use of the term against her has been a major red flag and something she sees ending the relationship. After leaving the apartment and visiting a friend instead, she received texts from her boyfriend claiming it was a TikTok trend in order to get a funny reactions.

As per Newsweek's research, TikTok is also full of videos joking about being nervous about trying out the trend on a partner, thanks to their predicted angry reaction.

"I thought that was just the sh*ttiest excuse ever," she wrote. "It doesn't matter if he saw it as a joke, or stole the 'joke.' It was still disrespectful.

"But it didn't change the fact he thought that s** was funny, to demean me when I was trying to do him a favor. Like hell I came over when he was studying to make a home-cooked dinner and he decided it's time for jokes? So I put my phone on Do Not Disturb for the night and split a bottle of wine with my friend and her roommate."

After receiving texts demanding she cleans his rug the next morning, she responded calling the mess "the b*tch tax" and instructed him to leave her alone until he can "handle" how own cooking and cleaning.

"I got pissed off he was playing that TikTok trend excuse again and I told him 'well i'm starting a trend called 'Saucing' where as a little joke, people throw pasta sauce around! You can't be mad because it's just a little trend,'" wrote the girlfriend in her post.

"He got really pissed off and hung up on me and now I'm seriously wondering if this dumb f**king TikTok joke is going to be the end of things between us."

Despite her uncertainty over the relationship ending, Reddit users were far more sure: it would be a good thing, they believed.

"I googled the trend and it is all about seeing how women react to a knowingly offensive comment. And usually, they are offended. These jokes aren't funny. Well, you reacted. He got his wish. Effed around and found out. He needs to grow up," wrote one user.

"Yes, this should be the end of you two," instructed another user in agreement. "He sounds like a total a**hole and leaving that on the floor overnight is just nasty."

Another user added that the girlfriend's saucing response was a"nice job" and that she should "go find someone whose maturity and sense of humor match yours. This one ain't it. It's not the sauce that's the problem. It's the whole man."

The girlfriend summarized her final thoughts in an update to the post, writing: "Honestly if someone has gotten to the age of 30 and not realized that women (as a whole) do not like having demeaning slurs used against them... They're beyond my help."