TL;DR: I’m friends with a group of guys at school who are generally sassy, but lately they’ve been constantly singling me out specifically. They comment on everything I do, from my appearance to my social life, eating habits, and being late, all just to get a reaction out of me. It’s not a huge deal individually, but having five or six guys constantly picking at you gets really annoying, and I don’t get why they target me more than the other girls. I’m (18F) friends with a couple guys in my grade. I’d say about five or six of them, not super close to the point of texting, but we have ALL the same classes and have known each other for 7+ years. They’ve always been kind of sassy, which is fine. I can handle it, but recently they’ve been like really obsessed, for lack of another word. Every five seconds they’re provoking me or saying stupid shit to get my reaction, and I just don’t get why me specifically. They’re sassy in general to all the girls, but even the other girls admit that they don’t go this far with them. Here are some examples:
- My girl friend wanted to go to a track meet at lunch, and I looked genuinely disgusting, so I put on some mascara and lip gloss, and one of them noticed and wouldn’t shut up about it. (this one actually bothered me a lot)
- I’m a very social person, and I have a lot of friends and go out pretty often, and they’re always getting on me about being “overly outside,” saying things like, “Bro, you’re never at home,” implying that I’m a crazy party animal.
- Let’s say I’m late for class: “You’re always late, bro, never at school.”
- Or if I bring food to class, they’re commenting on it or on how much I eat.
- Or just genuinely picking apart everything I say or do.
- Saying my name over and over and over again till i look just to say something completely idiotic or nothing at all. I know these don’t seem like that big of a deal in isolation, but when it’s a group of five or six guys constantly ganging up on you and saying these things, it gets kind of annoying, and even a little embarrassing especially if it’s only happening to you. All in good fun, or are they being actually mean? My friends are saying that they’re attracted to me, which isn’t too far fetched because some of them have perused me in the past (to no avail), but i think that explanation is kinda childish, irrelevant, and very cliche, “they’re mean cause they like you”, give me a fucking break. My other friend said that they are just comfortable with me because we’ve all known each other for so long, which is like, idk, okay… I guess. MY theory is that it’s a big junk swinging competition / circle jerk situation and they’re all doing this to impress each other. But my question still stands, why me? Are they rage baiting me for the love of the game? I don’t REALLY care to the point of confrontion, but I kinda just wanna what about a girl’s vibe says, “Oh, I should fuck with her”? I need a man’s opinion I suppose. submitted by /u/Turbulent_Cod560
Originally posted by u/Turbulent_Cod560 on r/AskMen