I've had some really fucking brutal ones before, but the one that hurt the most was where she wasn't mean to my face about it. I asked a coworker out and she was pretty chill about saying no.
but then I heard her in the breakroom with another coworker and she was fucking crying. the coworker was consoling her and trying to tell her that she isn't "ugly" and that I was just "delusional and unrealistic" for asking her out. I'm so subhuman that it HURT HER FEELINGS that I asked her out and made her spiral over her own looks.
if she had reacted this way to my face, at least then I could say that she was being hyperbolic for the sake of being cruel and hateful. but no. she didn't even want to be mean to me. that was just her genuine reaction because of how ugly I am. fuck.