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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/afafe_e on 2023-09-03 14:16:31.
Mine is when my mother told me to clean my 15-year-old brother’s room, when I had been helping her with chores since I was 5. It started with clearing the table and washing the dishes, and quickly escalated to cleaning the floors and stairs and hanging laundry (which included carrying a heavy basket of wet clothers up two flights of stairs to the rooftop), and when my brother was nine I had to learn how to handwash clothes because his baby outfits couldn’t be washed in the machine, and it immediately became my responsibility. My little sister was also a victim of this treatment, although poor girl never complained as much as I did. So when my mom asked me to clean his room while he sat playing video games I snapped and told her that was never happening again. She tried to guilt trip me but I was old enough not to fall for it anymore. She later on realized she had failed him as a mother because he never learned the discipline of cleaning after himself.
What’s your internalized misogyny story?