Eldest sisters r the most oppressed
hey yall dumb fucks reblogging this and yapping about how, ur life is actually super hard as a younger sibling…
the ‘eldest sisters are oppressed’ thing is based on the fact that the oldest girls in many families are, a lot of the time, drafted into watching her younger siblings to the point that shes more of a young third parent than a kid anymore. shes expected to be incredibly responsible while her younger siblings get to make mistakes. she get to do more housework than her father because apparently men shouldn’t have to watch laundry.
op is obviously referring to the ways in which older sisters ( nope not brothers) are forced into maternal roles by both society and their parents for a number of reasons, not limited to society’s insistence that they must learn to become mothers early. theres also the fact that many families both need and cant afford childcare. this idea that an oldest sister is free childcare is bullshit.
There’s a book called “The Eldest Daughter Effect” that goes into detail about this. And it applies to the oldest daughter so even if the oldest child is a boy and the second child is a daughter, she is the one who ends up getting all that extra pressure and responsibilities for younger siblings.
This is why I constantly fight with my mother, but she keeps saying I’m just trying to get rid of all my responsibilities and not want to help in home, while she’s doing her 15 yrs old son’s laundry
Let me tell you something funny. I’m the oldest female sibling, I have three younger siblings. I don’t do chores. I don’t go out and work. I work freely as a student. My parents may yell at me more than my other siblings, but I’m not forced to have any form of responsibilities except cleaning my room which my other siblings are also told. So this is obviously bullshit, lmao.
Perhaps it isn’t true for you, but I, as the eldest daughter, have way more responsibilities for anything. I’m not even 18 and my father says he considers me as an “adult.” I have to take care of my siblings all the time, and when they do something wrong, it’s my fault. Always. Apparently whatever they do, it’s an influence from me. When my sister hit me, my mom just said it was my doing, because I do it. If she learned it from me, where did I learn it from? Maybe you don’t have as much troubles, but others have way more responsibilities, way more trouble, and just because you get to sit on your lazy ass and not do chores or work, that doesn’t mean others have way more problems than you do.
It may not be true for everyone, but this definitly applies to me. I’m only 15 right now but daily I clean the entire house, do the laundry, dishes, give my sister a bath, do my sisters homework with her, check my brothers homework, and barely have any time for myself.
My parents work but once they’re home they sit around all day. My mother cleans her own room but that’s all she does and my brothers only chore is to feed the dog(which he rarely accomplishes without my reminding him)
Not to say that my parents do nothing, again they work hard at work, however they’re not home until very late every night and they leave before my sister wakes up in the morning. I’ve basically raised my sister on my own which regularly infringes in any social outings I want to make.
Eldest sisters in traditional families deal with a lot of shit
even in non traditional families. i am the oldest daughter, and i am the one that helps with cooking (never-mind that my older brother could do that) when my parents would leave, i would watch my younger siblings, because i was more “mature” then my older brother. my mom does do a crap ton of work in the house, but as the oldest daughter, a lot of the stuff falls on me.
Yeah I’m the eldest daughter, and though now that the divorce has gone through I do a lot less, when we still lived with my ex-stepfather he did absolutely nothing. And if he tried to do anything, he couldn’t do it without screaming at everyone. My mom did almost all the work, from laundry to cooking, and he had the audacity to say she did nothing. From the age of 10 up, I was prettt much the second parent to my twin sisters, because Brian did nothing.
The “if it’s not true for me then ti’s obviously bullshit” argument may be one of the dumbest arguments I’ve ever fucking seen.
^ALL of these arguments against the one who said that ‘if it’s not happening to me then it’s bullshit’.
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