Damn I hate this family sometimes
Why do some families (ie mine) have to be so damn sexist. Argh!
My parents think my sisters and I are just jealous of our lil bro. But fact is, they are just plain sexist and favour him because he is a boy! It's so plain obvious when you look at how we have been raised compared to him. I'm so frustrated that they don't see it. Let's use myself and my bro as an example.
Me
I started making my own lunch with the help of my sisters from damn pre-school. I'm serious too. I took care of myself and got myself ready everyday. My mum would drive us to school at 6am in the morning because she had to work or we would walk together to school later on by ourselves. I never got any help with my homework or assignments yet managed to get almost straight As up til the end of yr 10. (Then I suffered early burn out but that's another story :P) I remember getting in trouble and getting hit for something as simple as saying 'Yes' instead of 'Yes Mum' when I was little. I got hit and didn't know why I got in trouble. I wore hand-me-downs from sis1 to sis2 to me. My sports shirt had a few holes in it and I didn't want to ask my parents to buy me a new one cos it'd cost money. I paid for my own goddamn braces in high school.
Brother
He's 11 this year. He got spoon feed til he was 8 years old by my mum. She makes his bed, gets his food out, washes his dishes and takes his clothes out for his shower everyday. Pretty much anything he wants, he gets. Atm, he has a tv, vcr and ps2 in his room. He has two scooters. He asked for an $70-80 hovercraft toy. My parents bought him 2. He's played with it for no more than a week and I have seen them since. He said cos he had to recharge it all the time and couldn't be bothered. A month or so ago he asked and got a $350 mini car. He played with it for a TOTAL of 30mins and now it's collecting dust. That's an expensive half hour. He has numerous expensive toys he asked for which haven't seen the light of day. He wanted to have tennis lessons for about $30 an hour. My mum let him go (she earns $12.50/hr cleaning homes). Then he got sick of it and skipped the lessons without telling anyone.
My parents send him to tutoring lessons of which he complains having to go to. I would have liked to have that help when I was young! We have to constantly nag him to do his homework and projects. I have to help and sometimes walk through his work with him because he can't do it on his own and I get in trouble if I don't. He just wants to be spoon feed his work like everything else.
My parents told us several times that the house will go to him one day. Fine. It's their house of which they earned money to buy so it's up to them what they will do with it. When he was 9, I was cleaning the house while him and my dad were on their arse on the couch. I told him to pick up the mats so I could vaccum. His response: "Why are u telling me what to do. It's not your house anyway!". OMG, I wanted to slap him silly. I told him fine, it was his house so he could go goddamn clean it himself. My dad goes off and tells my mum half the story making me sound like i was just jealous so didn't want to clean.
Then recently, my mum got a mobile phone from someone she works for. It didnt work and was thrown out. It's a pretty good phone with camera, etc and cost $300rrp. Well, my dad got it fixed and bought a sim card for my brother. He doesn't have anyone to call and can't bring it to school cos he's 11. Yet, he won't give it to anyone else despite not being using it just because he wants a flip phone. My dad and I still use cruddy old phones and yet he gets to have a new one when he's not going to use it. What is the logic? He's a boy so gets what he wants!
That's preferential treatment according to sex for u!
My parents think my sisters and I are just jealous of our lil bro. But fact is, they are just plain sexist and favour him because he is a boy! It's so plain obvious when you look at how we have been raised compared to him. I'm so frustrated that they don't see it. Let's use myself and my bro as an example.
Me
I started making my own lunch with the help of my sisters from damn pre-school. I'm serious too. I took care of myself and got myself ready everyday. My mum would drive us to school at 6am in the morning because she had to work or we would walk together to school later on by ourselves. I never got any help with my homework or assignments yet managed to get almost straight As up til the end of yr 10. (Then I suffered early burn out but that's another story :P) I remember getting in trouble and getting hit for something as simple as saying 'Yes' instead of 'Yes Mum' when I was little. I got hit and didn't know why I got in trouble. I wore hand-me-downs from sis1 to sis2 to me. My sports shirt had a few holes in it and I didn't want to ask my parents to buy me a new one cos it'd cost money. I paid for my own goddamn braces in high school.
Brother
He's 11 this year. He got spoon feed til he was 8 years old by my mum. She makes his bed, gets his food out, washes his dishes and takes his clothes out for his shower everyday. Pretty much anything he wants, he gets. Atm, he has a tv, vcr and ps2 in his room. He has two scooters. He asked for an $70-80 hovercraft toy. My parents bought him 2. He's played with it for no more than a week and I have seen them since. He said cos he had to recharge it all the time and couldn't be bothered. A month or so ago he asked and got a $350 mini car. He played with it for a TOTAL of 30mins and now it's collecting dust. That's an expensive half hour. He has numerous expensive toys he asked for which haven't seen the light of day. He wanted to have tennis lessons for about $30 an hour. My mum let him go (she earns $12.50/hr cleaning homes). Then he got sick of it and skipped the lessons without telling anyone.
My parents send him to tutoring lessons of which he complains having to go to. I would have liked to have that help when I was young! We have to constantly nag him to do his homework and projects. I have to help and sometimes walk through his work with him because he can't do it on his own and I get in trouble if I don't. He just wants to be spoon feed his work like everything else.
My parents told us several times that the house will go to him one day. Fine. It's their house of which they earned money to buy so it's up to them what they will do with it. When he was 9, I was cleaning the house while him and my dad were on their arse on the couch. I told him to pick up the mats so I could vaccum. His response: "Why are u telling me what to do. It's not your house anyway!". OMG, I wanted to slap him silly. I told him fine, it was his house so he could go goddamn clean it himself. My dad goes off and tells my mum half the story making me sound like i was just jealous so didn't want to clean.
Then recently, my mum got a mobile phone from someone she works for. It didnt work and was thrown out. It's a pretty good phone with camera, etc and cost $300rrp. Well, my dad got it fixed and bought a sim card for my brother. He doesn't have anyone to call and can't bring it to school cos he's 11. Yet, he won't give it to anyone else despite not being using it just because he wants a flip phone. My dad and I still use cruddy old phones and yet he gets to have a new one when he's not going to use it. What is the logic? He's a boy so gets what he wants!
That's preferential treatment according to sex for u!