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I put up some away messages with a couple of harmless, popular jokes about women (i.e. "Why don't women need to wear watches... Because there's a clock on the stove," a joke that my roomie's girl told us) you know, the kind of stuff that's so far fetched that it would be obvious from the start that somebody actually thought that way. Little did I know (and much to my delight) that she was reading these messages. This was the end of last week.
Two nights ago, I put up an away message that was to the effect of "why won't women give me a second chance?" She woke me up with the answer "ur kind of racist and sexist." The only possibly racist comment I remember making around her is "he's Asian, of course he drives an Accord" which I thought was pretty benign. I said, "okay, I can see why you'd think that." Then she proceeded to tell me that those jokes I put up really offended her. For some reason, I apologized, and said I'm really not racist (which I'm not).
Needless to say, I'm not pursuing her anymore. Basically what I took out of this is that she's really judgemental. I have a big problem with people that can't look at a person as a whole. I could understand it if I were actually sexist, but there's a line between actually being sexist and finding humor in gender-based jokes.
Thanks for the advice all, I've sure learned a lot here.
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