Loser?

As I lay in bed, listening to the radio while closing my eyes to enjoy the feeling of nua-ing, I was reminded of the time when i was in BMT, when lights out would be 2230 for the SAF standard 7 hours of sleep to get up at 0530 for 5BX. Of course those with girlfriends would pretend to sleep and use their handphones at the same time talking to their girlfriends, thus they had to be alert if the Sergeants came into the bunk and checked if we were asleep or not.
Which led me to remember an article I read in the sunday times way back, about a father who wrote an article that when his son went to BMT, he made an effort to call home every night and the father was happy that his son who prior to enlistment would barely talk to him and his wife now spoke to him more often and openly. The father was very happy, and told 2 friends about it. The first one, an older woman, said that she's glad that father and son are communicating better. However, the second person, a young lady, had this to say, which was, "What a loser. He probably has no girlfriend."
How untrue, yet grating nonetheless.