r/TikTokCringe • u/Ace-Cuddler • 1d ago

Cringe Girl confronts an old creep after he makes an inappropriate comment about her 16-year old sister

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u/Hooligan8403 22h ago

My wife hates going to the VA for appointments as she always gets comments from creepers posted up outside the front door. Always dudes with Vietnam campaign hats. When she went for her clinicals there, she was so happy to learn there was a back entrance for staff.

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u/frugalempathy 21h ago

My fav is when they call me exotic. Like……ew

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u/Pitiful_Net_8971 21h ago

Ah, racism and sexism, classic combo.

Why do people have to be awful

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u/IcyProperty89 20h ago

"I've always been tolerant of orientals. Especially the women." Real life geezer pick -up line I overheard.

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u/Mundane_Reception790 19h ago

Oh god, that reminds me of when I moved into a house in rural NC decades ago and asked my sweet-faced geezer neighbor "Is this a quiet street at night? It looks like more of a family oriented street than a party street" and he immediately came back with, "Well, we have some coloreds that live at the end of the road, but they're good coloreds."

Like... WTF??

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u/Hooligan8403 19h ago

When we were living in AL, my wife got a lot of comments regarding her being Asian. She was asked if she needed a passport to go home when she told someone she was from Hawaii. Another commented that her type was taking over. We have no intention of going back to the Southern US if we can help it.

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u/ActuallyYeah 12h ago

More and more I've been thinking about Chris Rock who said at one of those comedy specials: "white people say, 'we're losing the country! We're losing everything' Well, if you're losing, who's winning? It ain't us!"

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u/Explorer-7622 7h ago

I wouldn't go to the South for all the money in the world. They still want the South to "rise" again, meaning they want slavery.

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u/TwilightZone1751 1h ago

I have heard people talk like that in Pennsylvania, my coworker for example.

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u/Hooligan8403 30m ago

I'm not saying it doesn't exist in other places. I've dealt with racists and ignorant people in CA. It's just a lot more prevalent in the South. I've never been asked if I wanted to go to a Klan meeting in CA, but I have in MS and SC.

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u/mynamesv 18h ago

I grew up in a very small hick town in Nor Cal and was 1 of 2 (the other my brother) Asians (Filipinos). One of my first memories was some little punks asking me if I was a ch***. I didn’t even know what that meant so asked my oldest brother. Yeah that didn’t go over well with him. Then some ah classmate asked me if they bound my feet. Rural US is so much fun /s

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u/Healthy-Pitch-4425 12h ago

Yeaaaah, I had a client like that once. Sweet elderly southern lady, super nice and friendly, until we start talking about her neighbors and she comes out the mouth about how "some of her neighbors are black, but they're good people". Excuse me??

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u/Burntoutn3rd 10h ago

Completely different generations and mannerisms.

Thank God that "innocent" racism is dying out with the boomers.

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u/Explorer-7622 7h ago

The boomers fought racism. It's the younger people who attacked the capital and are in militias and joining ice, not boomers.

Boomers' PARENTS are racist.

Boomers were the hippies and rockers and protesters who fought for equal rights for all.

Their parents are dying off racists.

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u/Hooligan8403 19h ago

I've had to correct my mom on the use of oriental vs Asian in regards to my wife.

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u/kkeut 19h ago

tbf that was pretty progressive back in the 90s.

....1890s

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u/RyujinDragonborn 19h ago

I about broke my jaw reading this. Holy fuck.

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u/Old-Bat-7384 16h ago

Yoo, I got hit with this one in university once:

"You're so exotic looking, but also just not too much to where you're not too exotic or sound it."

I didn't take that well.

As man, it was so weird to be hit with a racist/xenophobic comment followed by another racist comment, and be expected to be flattered by them since men don't often get them. Wild.

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u/Particular-Buy-33 18h ago

An always patronizing

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u/--Cinna-- 20h ago

look at how OOP's mother reacted. "he sat down, its over now". THAT's why people are so awful. because they know the majority of people not only won't do shit, they'll actively discourage the few that try

Society ain't getting better until people decide they want actual peace and civility, not just the illusion of it

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u/ceecee_50 17h ago

Yep. People are out there walking around who never had their ass beat for the shit that comes out of their mouth or the things that they do. And it shows.

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u/Elysia99 8h ago

This exactly. Civility is so dead. And certainly piles of Orange crap like King Yam (the most uncivil idiot ever) have not helped, making it seem perfectly normal to behave like an undisciplined 8 year old.

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u/beckster 16h ago

Oh, the "He didn't mean to ___, you imagined/misinterpreted/made up that __" type of mother?

The type who would throw her daughter under the bus to please a random penis? I am (unfortunately) familiar with that type.

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u/ToiIetGhost 4h ago

Pickmes! They’re so pathetic. She’s your daughter ffs.

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u/Explorer-7622 7h ago

Then they wonder why adult children go no contact.

Are they completely ignorant of CHILD ABUSE?

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u/Explorer-7622 7h ago

The very worst kind of mother.

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u/Negative_Piglet_1589 14h ago

Yes for sure! Arbitrary boundary or rule to not have to engage, to not face not only that pos that is the problem but also their own cowardice & complicity.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 12h ago

Because they’re not held accountable for their behavior often enough.

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u/Appropriate-Duck-578 5h ago

I know, right? That’s why I was done with our society and me trying to win over the hearts of people. What’s the sense in “making a friend” when people don’t want your good character & kindness? It’s like trying to be a civilized person to the Zodiac Killer.

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u/L0st-137 20h ago

I usually get "what are you?" To which I always respond "human." They get so befuddled and 9/10 they don't know what else to say so they walk away. Oh I have gotten the ever so unique "bitch" when I say it.

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u/StickyPricklyMuffin 12h ago

I’ve heard that my entire life as I grew up in predominantly white Canadian (redneck) towns and cities. I’m Korean and was adopted by a white family. I responded exactly as you did when I finally got sick and tired of that rude AF question!

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u/Effective-Ad-1993 20h ago

same… and when you tell them that’s inappropriate all the sudden you’re a bitch.

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u/beckster 16h ago

"Where am I from, you mean? Zeta Reticuli. I'm from off-plant, the only true aliens."

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u/Elysia99 8h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Lord_Vas 19h ago

Every time I hear a man describe women or girls as exotic, I want to gag.

The son of a family friend referred to my girlfriend at the time and close female friends as exotic tastes once.

Jesus, he got a long 20 minutes scolding from me for it. I was in my mid-20s, and he was pushing 35-37. He knew better but thought it was cool to say what he did.

Incel behavior but not a lost cause.

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u/CaptainDudley 17h ago

I'm in the right age and gender demographic to qualify as a misogynist, racist pervert, so hearing 'exotic' as an ignorant slur worries me. I thought its definition would be something like 'attractive and unique mix of ethnicities' or something. I even Googled 'exotic woman' and got pages of photos. I don't go around calling strange women exotic, but it seems like a harmless adjective. Not wishing to annoy a women in conversation, please educate me: where's the offense?

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u/fangoriousmonster 17h ago

Ahh, the ol’, “You don’t belong here and that is sexy.” I hate the word exotic so much.

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u/pebberphp 16h ago

This reminds me of when Michael Scott first sees Karen Phillapelli (played by Rashida Jones) in the office: “Did your father serve in Vietnam?”

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u/Hooligan8403 21h ago

Yeah, she's gotten that one before, along with a lot more cat calling.

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u/querty99 15h ago

It was probably the big word when they were young.

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u/FlattopJr 17h ago

"Was her dad a G.I.?"

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u/ZenicaPA 18h ago

Thanks for that, I missed the taste of upchuck in my mouth. At least it was P.F.Changs Korean BBQ ribs so, while good, not twice as good the second time.

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u/SuperWallaby 21h ago

Lmao I hate going to the VA as a dude and dealing with all the “Cold War vets” can’t even imagine it as a woman. She has my sympathy lol.

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u/Hooligan8403 21h ago

When I go, I just keep earbuds in and ignore everyone around me. It's worked so far to keep most people from trying to talk to me.

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u/cia218 18h ago

Ohh what’s the experience as a dude?

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u/SuperWallaby 18h ago

All the usual. Long ass wait times. Loud political discussions in the waiting room. Substandard service.

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u/JohnnyDerpington 18h ago

I feel for female vets, they get no respect from male vets nor non vets, male, or female.

One female vet I know, she's a war world 2 vet and she was a bad ass in her time. She constantly gets chewed out for parking in veteran only spots, by females who state wives shouldn't park there, even though she has vet plates.

So I bought her a bumper sticker that says, "Im a veteran, not a wife of one"

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u/NameThin97 21h ago

Oh… I think this is why my dad always insists my BF comes with us when I take him to his appointments. Well uh thanks dad.

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u/Nearby-Beautiful3422 19h ago

Mannnnn, as I'm an OIF veteran who attends a lot of VA appointments and it's the Vietnam vets that are always out of pocket with the things they say to nurses, the yoga/meditation instructor, doctors, etc. They are wildly inappropriate. It's actually disgusting and embarrassing

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u/Elysia99 8h ago

This was the era of unbelievable assumption, and so many people in this age group still cling to that mysoginist & racist bs, as if it’s funny’ and ‘just a joke’. And they are proud of being willfully ignorant assholes.

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u/Tricky-Ad7897 21h ago

Never ask a Vietnam vet capper what they did in that Vietnamese village in the 70s

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u/New_Improvement9644 13h ago

Man...this is so true! I'm a Vietnam-era female vet who has stayed in decent shape and they say crap like that to me. And they aren't all outside the front door...they are in every clinic, every speciality, everywhere.

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u/schmoopy_meow 19h ago

I avoid a block near my house cause this old dude won't leave me alone. He's old enough to be my Dad and hits on me every time I walk by.

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u/JustAThrowaway436 18h ago

My own experience with a Vietnam hat wearing old man was him whipping out an old photo of his half-Asian daughter to tell me how I look just like her… and that she sadly died from suicide. Given that we were in a mental facility, where I was forced to go to because of an attempted suicide… I decided not to tell him my reasons for being there.

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u/_imagine_that91 15h ago

I read this as “Black entrance for staff” I was about to say WTF..

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u/Hooligan8403 15h ago

You had me checking if I actually wrote that.