AITA for not letting my wife buy things with words on them?

NAH because I think calling you an asshole would put too much seriousness on what is a light disagreement. Your wife isn’t in tears over it, she’s poking fun at you for your hilarious distress over “words”. You two sound nice. I enjoyed the read and would be friends with you.

Rant incoming; safe to ignore.

FWIW I also get distressed over art and clothing with words on them. I wouldn’t say it’s like full on torture, but maybe a light waterboarding, enough to make me angry.

It’s the same concept that upsets people with ubiquitous advertising. Except its even more insulting to me because most of the time it’s some brain dead slogan repeated so often that it’s lost all meaning or reason.

“Hey, remember to stay alive, guy. Do some chucking and also love something. But nothing in particular”

“And hey, I know it sucks you need coffee, but this is exactly like that time during WWII in England when fire bombs were raining from the sky and a whole country was afraid to leave their houses, so stay calm, hero.”

Even putting a brand name on a shirt is less offense to me because at least a brand invokes a feeling. Carving the words “live laugh love” separately or all together in some cheap, plastic material with a machine in a factory in China employed with people who probably can’t read English and has no idea what that machine is even spelling out is so indicative of late capitalism to me that I feel compelled to join Antifa over these three words only and quit my tech job to become an ironic artist type.

I need to breathe after all that. If only there was a word hangin around to remind me to stay alive.

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