Question:
Were you and the other boys treated differently than your sisters or other females in your family?

Perhaps you were given different expectations, punishments, or responsibilities.

If so, give some examples of how the genders were treated differently and relay the reasons you were given for the different treatment.

Choices:
Yes.
No.
Unsure.

 

My brothers and I had more responsibilities. That probably had to do with my sister being the only girl and the baby of the family. But to this day I'm a much better housekeeper than my sister is.

Very much like HB, I had more responsibility than my sister who is a year younger. She could also wrap my dad around her little finger. He would shut down once she turned on the tears. She got the larger bedroom, new furniture, way more clothes, and I got the old furniture and the small bed room. I would pull 4.0's and no one blinked, she would get one A on her report card, and get kudos.

The absolute best example of how differently we were treated was when I was helping my dad paint the house after he got off from work on Friday. I was 16 and my sister 15. She had asked my dad at dinner could she go out that evening with her friends to see a movie. He told her no, that she had been going out too much and besides, she had waited to ask at the last minute.

So my dad and I are up on the ladder scrapping under the eaves when a car pulls up and honks. My sister comes out of the house, turns to my dad, and says that she is going out anyways, and will be home by 10 PM. She gets in the car and it drives off without my dad making a move or saying a word. Of course I had to say, "I can't believe you let her get away with that" to which he promptly told me to shut up and mind my own business. She would come home on time, and nothing ever became of it.

About 12 years ago, she finally confessed that she had been spoiled and had thus had a much easier time than I did. I am just waiting to see what she does when her daughter becomes a teenager.

I have a sister that is about 2 years older than I am. We were definitely treated differently. But, I believe that we had different, but equal, responsibilities. She was assigned chores like cooking and cleaning while I washed and buffed floors and did outside work.

We also had different priviledges. For example, her curfew was much later than mine; but I could be out on my own, she had to be with other people.

No sisters.

I can't really comment on this Ma'am. I have no brothers, and only one sister. And my sister is nine years younger than me! So, of course, she was (and is) treated quite differently from me.

ma'am I would have loved to have brothers, I have 2 sisters. Big age between them and me... I was a 'surprise' baby more gender differences occured post-school... being a determined little girl-tomboy I was drawn (no pun) to the arts where there was no real gender divide in the workplace about responsibilities, but yes... management decision-making was more paternalistic... esp when I started working for book publishers ... huge gender divide there... larger % of female staff but rarely in management roles. The few that are/were have had to claw their way across fields of broken glass and by the time they 'get there' they've usually morphed into some other kind of life form. I prefer an egalitarian approach to all facets of life.

Heck yeah!

I had it the worst, being I'm also the oldest. So all the damn responibility and accountability fell on me. While my sisters schemed on and milked my mothers love for it was worth and then some.

I am the middle child of three. My brother is the oldest and my sister the youngest. I had the most responsibility of all and no damn freedom. My brother got to roam free and do whatever and I couldn't even step on the front porch. Of course this instilled in me a rebellious attitude and that is what I did. Rebelled, and came up pregnant with even more responsibilities. That was years ago though.

Here's the thread for the ladies.

D'uh! it was late... what was I thinking... lol
I didn't realize there were two threads.... all work and no play...

Because my life was different than most, yes it was.

I was cooking at age 7 to give you an idea. I have 10 yrs on my sister so yeah, i had to help out alot.