In today's culture of toxic masculinity, men are often taught that they need to be the breadwinners and that they should have the best of everything. This can lead to toxic behavior like the man in today's Am I the A$$hole thread.
It's every guy's dream to come home to a big surprise party... especially when that surprise is a brand-new, top-of-the-line laptop from his girlfriend.
In what can only be described as a prime example of toxic masculinity, instead of being grateful, OP ruined his own surprise party by throwing a tantrum over the fact that his girlfriend earns a better salary than he does and that her thoughtful gift was an attempt to "show him up".
OP was so enraged but the supposed belittlement that he stormed off in a fit of jealousy, further ignoring his girlfriend when she reached out the next day. His excuse? He grew up poor and has a lesser salary, while his girlfriend was born well-off and works as an MD, earning far more than he does.
This obviously means she's flaunting her wealth to embarrass him in front of their friends, not, say, trying to do something nice for him.
We don't have much to say, since we're still collecting our jaw off the floor and wondering if this isn't a troll, so we'll let the good folk of Reddit sum it up for us (and they do it so eloquently as well).
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