The coworker, Pat, that I sit with on breaks, he's a massive Trump supporter, a racist, homophobic, transphobic (he doesn't know I'm trans lol), all of the phobics. He says awful s**t about women and comments negatively on people's weights, particularly women's weights. He's your typical tall, lanky, white, cishet man in his 70's, living in the south.
Pat recently watched a male coworker get rejected by a female coworker (Pat calls that female coworker "high maintenance" because she's conventionally prettier than average and the male coworker had said she was the prettiest girl he had ever seen, female coworker said thanks, but she was married) and now Pat won't stop bringing it up. Calling the guy Don Juan, saying how he doesn't know what that guy was thinking, that girl was too good for him, he couldn't afford having her as a girlfriend, etc. It's been a couple weeks now and I just wish he'd drop it. He also keeps making jokes and nudges that I should flirt with this female coworker, despite us knowing that she's married, she's also very much not my type, which I keep repeating to him. He also used to call a different female coworker my "future wife" (out of earshot of her, thankfully) because she's also conventionally prettier than average, Pat kept trying to get me to look at her a** whenever she'd wear leggings to work and it's just so ******** uncomfortable because I'm really not into that... But is this how cishet men bond? Because I have no idea how to fit into male social spaces, not being raised male. Regardless, that's just gross behavior, to me.
Him and my Aunt used to sit together for breaks, but when she retired, I became the fill-in. He's constantly talking/complaining so, I'm not able to do anything I liked doing on my breaks, like reading or talking to my friends, I can't use my phone around him. The few times I've tried to take out my phone to do anything on it, he just keeps talking and I can't focus on both. I have to just sit there and listen to him talk. On the plus side, he always just wings it on his break times so, sometimes I take double breaks while sitting with him and because our supervisor is scared of Pat, he won't say s**t to either of us about our break times.
Never really considered how much his constant negativity brings me down though. But it does, it makes break times less enjoyable, but I cannot just sit somewhere else because he will sit with me or start waving his hand and pointing to the seat across from him. I don't wanna say s**t because as much as his negativity gets to me, my fear of confrontation is stronger.