Katharina Buczek
Then, after seeing it on Christmas day, her husband actually revealed how he was concerned because their son “wanted what was clearly a toy for girls.”
Now, she was completely taken aback by her husband’s comment and attempted to explain that the toy was just a ball. Moreover, it should not matter who it was originally marketed toward.
So, her husband did not say much after that, and he actually just dropped the topic altogether. In turn, she figured that the issue was not that big of a deal.
Well, that was until about a week later, when her son’s brand-new ball went “missing” from her house out of nowhere.
And as you can imagine, her son was beyond distraught– and she could not even help because she genuinely had no clue where it had gone.
Then, her husband actually pulled her aside in private and revealed that he had given the ball away to her brother-in-law.
Apparently, the plan was to give the strawberry-themed ball to their niece. And in exchange, her husband purchased a Spiderman ball to give to their son.
Now, don’t get me wrong: her son does love Spiderman. But that was definitely not the point, and her husband knew how much their son loved that ball. Moreover, how it was literally the highlight of their son’s Christmas this year.
So, she was honestly livid and called her husband out for acting so insensitive and thoughtlessly. Shockingly, though, her husband just kept defending his actions.
“My husband is arguing that he did it for the ‘greater good’ and that he was ‘protecting our son from bullying,'” she recalled.
If you could not have guessed it, though, she thought that reasoning was just plain ridiculous– and she told her husband that. She also claimed that her son would never get bullied over the toy, particularly because the ball did not even look like a “girl’s” toy to begin with.
