A woman has come under fire online, after her boyfriend revealed his discomfort at her plans to wear a dress based on the "gay rat wedding" meme to an LGBT wedding.
"My girlfriend Nat has a very particular sense of style, very much like Harper Finkle from Wizards of Waverly Place. I've never had a problem with it, in fact I love the way she dresses because she loves to do so, and if she's happy, I am happy," he wrote on Reddit's AITA forum.
"The thing is, sometimes she likes to incorporate memes into her clothes. No problem, it's cute. But now she wants to wear a dress inspired on the meme 'gay rat wedding' to my friend’s wedding. He and his fiancé are gay.
"I told her, maybe that is not really appropriate. The dress in question would be full of little stuffed rats, pride flags and a big 'I SUPPORT GAY RATS' on the front."
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For those who aren't clued up on meme culture, the meme refers to a gay wedding in the animated kids' TV show Arthur, which Alabama Public Television refused to air in the US.
However, he man's friend isn't exactly a fan of the way Nat dresses and now the man has been left fearing her dress could cause an uproar at the wedding
"Now, Nat is upset with me and claiming that i am 'throwing water in her flame of creativity.' The wedding is next month, so she has plenty of time to think about another thing to wear," he added, questioning: "Should I just let her go with the dress? Am i the a**hole in this situation?"
"That’s very inappropriate for a wedding. Not to mention, kinda insulting," one Reddit user responded.
Another added: "To be fair, it’s not that you aren’t letting her; you can’t stop her and you’re not pretending you can. Nobody can paint you as being controlling in this.
"All you’re doing is telling her how unbelievably crass it would be to wear that dress, how disrespectful it would seem, how poorly it would be received and overall how much of a weapons-grade flaming a**hole she would be to wear it to these guys’ wedding.
"Holy s***, does she not see how incredibly dehumanising and objectifying what she wants to do is? It’s a gay wedding, so that makes a meme about rats a good fit?"
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