[Serious] People who stopped talking to a very close friend, what was the reason?

She became an intolerable social justice warrior. Before you all kill me, yes I am a straight white male, but I am a feminist, forward thinking individual who has lived in Boystown of Chicago for years as I have no problem with the LGBT community. I have 12 cousins and only one of them is another male. All my older relatives are female with the exception of one surviving Grandfather, my dad and one uncle. The rest are all women. Basically one day a close friend of hers had a really shitty boyfriend who hacked her email. At this point it feels like she started just hating men, for something that ONE other shitty guy did to her friend. So now when we hung out every day it wasn't talking about nerdy shit, our jobs, relationships or whatever. It always became about this thing that happened, that I wasn't aware of because I don't live on the internet, and she wouldn't even bring it up like I was an outside party to it. She started including me in the blame just because I have male genitalia. For example, if a woman was raped on a campus somewhere by a horrible piece of subhuman shit (which is what I consider rapists) the conversation wasn't "How could someone do this?" it was "Why would you do this?" Straight faced. She'd ask me why IIIIIIIIIIIII would do it. Fuck if I know, why do women drown their babies? Stop classifying me with monsters just because we came out looking the same. The other annoying thing (and I don't mean to bring this up, but context, ya know?) she's only had one "boyfriend" ever and it was some guy in England she's never met in person. I doubt she's ever even had sex.

The final straw was when she said I needed to be "enlightened" about rape/Gamergate and we got into a heated debate. It ended with me saying "Stop saying I need to be fucking enlightened. You don't know shit about rape. I was raped when I was 8. My sister has been raped twice. My cousin once. Don't fucking talk to me about rape." And that's true. I kept that inside because it's nobody's fucking business.

She was a great friend. But she became fucking insufferable. And in the end, the fact that she was still trying to "enlighten" me after I told her those things made me even more furious.

Note: I support education about rape and donate money (anonymously) to it yearly and I also make it a point to donate to battered women's shelters as I suffered through watching that with my mom/dad and later my sister.

Also, I'm probably not going to reply to any comments on this, whether it's 0 or a billion. God I hope it's 0.

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