Does this sound fair?

[royal-]

Ok so to cut a long story short, my GF went nuts at me because I have several connections in Linked in that are a)female and b)attractive bimbo's (her words not mine)

She says i either delete them or we are over, or shes going to start adding random guys to her Linked in and facebook.

Now yes I dont know some of these females but some i do and to be honest they dont look that hot to me.

So in response to her I asked her why is it fair that she thinks its fine for her to talk to random guys at work while she goes out for a smoke 3 or 4 times a day and as she says, if they approach her and talk to her she will talk back. But if a random female (who she thinks is a bimbo) adds me on linked in I MUST refuse them.

How should I deal with this?

Royal

[basilandthyme]

Linked In is designed as a networking tool for professionals. If these women work in the same field as you and may be useful in future job hunting, keep them. If they are random women added for no particular reason, delete them. If she objects to you keeping female contacts who have relevance to your profession, then wish her well with her single life.

That being said, why would your girlfriend refer to another woman as a bimbo? It's such a disrespectful term and frankly, it has no place in this day and age.

[TheEvilJester]

Agreed. Linked In is supposed to be for professional contacts. It's not really meant to be a social site / dating site or anything like that. So, I would assume that you have either worked with these particular women, or they are at least in a similar field/industry, correct? If so, then honestly I'd consider breaking things off with your girlfriend. Unless there is a reason we don't know about for her to be so paranoid, then she sounds ridiculously childish and immature to me. Especially considering how overblown her reaction was. If it made her a little bit upset, even that I would say is ridiculous since Linked In is meant for professional/work related connections. However, she is SO upset by it that (whether or not she actually means it) she is threatening to end your relationship over it. Personally, if somebody wanted to play those kind of bull crap games with me, I'd not even give them the chance to end things over such a ridiculous reason. I'd end them because I'd like to date an adult, not an overgrown baby.

I mean, unless there is something you are not telling us, such as that you constantly talk to these women, I really don't see how her reaction is fair at all. But, perhaps that is just me. You know her, I don't. So, you certainly have to decide if this is just one ridiculous and overblown reaction from an otherwise good person, or a sign that perhaps she is looney tunes and belongs in a nut hut. :-)