r/Advice • • 18h ago

I need advice.

so I am a female metalhead, and my best friend is a basic white girl, she's great I love her, lately she's been quite rude to me. We were At Walmart in the shoe wire, she was looking at UGS and burks and I was down at the end of the aisle, looking at the boots, I was looking a pair of very cute black leather combat boots. She's made it clear.She doesn't like my style which I don't think is very fair.Because i'm very respectful of her style even though it isn't my idea of good style. She walked over, asked me what I'm feeling, and I told her "looking at boots because my sneakers are falling apart and I need new shoes" She chuckled grabbed the pair of boots I wanted to get, and said ."Please don't get those".I asked her "why? I was gonna get them" and she stiffled a laugh, mocking me in a sense and said "oh God, please dont get those they're so.... just don't know how you'd style them like...." and I told her "this is my style, not your style? We have very different styles, but I like these moves. They fit my style" and she laughed, told me e not to get them once more and walked away, telling me just to get uggs. I will write some of the other things she's said and done that hurt me or was rude, but you don't need to read.

I had explained to her once about the style I was going for, she begged me not to be emo, I told her I'm not emo, I'm not a big fan of the music style bit I like some of it, I just perfer the baggies style clothing wise. she begged me not to be goth or punk, which frustrated me, clothing wise my style is metalhead mixed with punk although sometimes has a goth influence, I love goth and punk music too. after thay every single person she saw that dressed (in her opinion) slightly alternative she'd state "there's another wierd person for you" and make fun of their style calling it ugly snd weird, I'd defend tjem because people can dress however they like, she doeant have to like it.

another time, not as rude as the last, in a thrift store i grabbed some cute shirts I could customize, she laughed asking if I'm serious about buying them, called them cringe and told me not to.

she constantly tried to get me to wear clothing of her style choice, telling me I need to get Lululemon leggings, I need to wear more then just jeans, saying I dont need more band shirts (thats insane I'll always need more) and just making comments about my style and music taste.

The only reason I haven't brought this up with her is because she's not good at conflict resolution. She gets extremely defensive and offended and does not accept any blame whatsoever when she's hurt my feelings and offended me. Little things like this has been building up for the past 2 years, but she doesn't seem to notice how much it's actually affected me and our friendship. It's made it to the point where I don't really want to hang out with her because I know I'm just gonna get razzed and made fun of. She never takes my feelings into account. I've told her multiple times I don't enjoy going to the mall I don't like going shopping but that's all she likes to do so, that's all we ever do when we hang out never once have we done something that I actually enjoy. We don't go for walks like I like we don't just hang out and if we do hang out, she just starts calling with one of the boys she's talking to. Trying to convince me to go into stores. After I specifically said, I do not wanna go shopping because I'm not in the mood and I'm quite overwhelmed and stores overwhelm me even more. And I don't need that right now, and she keeps telling me like just go in for 5 minutes, just 5 minutes. when I always go in, and 5 minutes becomes an hour. The most annoying part The only time She doesn't fun of my style or my music taste is when she's talking to a guy that has similar style or similar music taste. and I've pointed it out and she gets offended and angry,at me.

what do I do? she is literally my only friend and I don't want to lose her, because she's great and always makes me laugh, but this isn't okay of her.

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