When you were a boy did you squish bugs?

Yesterday my husband, our 12 yo son, and I were biking. We saw a fuzzy caterpillar on the road.

It looked as if my son might ride over it, so I asked him not to, saying it wasn’t necessary.

My husband thought the caterpillar had already been run over and was dead, so he rode over it himself, actually killing it.

I felt as though my husband had thrown me under the bus and was being cruel, so I shouted, “Hey, no need to be a jerk!”

He then explained what had happened, and I apologized for raising my voice and for calling him a jerk.

He apologized for running over the caterpillar.

He also explained that, in his view, it’s normal for boys to squish bugs, and that I wouldn’t understand because I’m not male.