I wrote this after dealing with an awful roommate, around this time last year, and just found it today. I'm not dwelling on what happened anymore since even worse things have happened since (though I never thought that would be possible!), but I do not mind sharing my thoughts about my experience living with a horrible person...
I have recently been called names such as "slag" and "heifer" by an at least slightly misogynistic 24-year-old male who is in denial of his sexist behaviors. The fact that those are the kind of words that he uses against me just confirms that he has a problem and obviously a lower level of respect for women.
I don't dislike him purely because of the interactions just between the two of us--he exhibited behaviors toward individuals who are my friends and expressed unwelcome judgments about them when I had done nothing like that to any of his people. He argued with females on at least two occasions about subjects that are pretty much not that important and not worth arguing about, or they are a matter of opinion anyway, but he had to be right. And I did not see the behavior directed towards males.
When I got really upset one day and yelled at him that he is a sexist bastard when he said he wouldn't listen to me, he said it had nothing to do with being a woman; it was because I am a stupid ----.
. . . . He continued to perpetuate himself.
And so that was my first experience living with a male stranger—who didn't clean like he said he would and became quite verbally abusive.
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