Twitter User Shares How Parents Cheered For Her Brother’s First Day At Work, But Never Her’s. Why Are Men’s Firsts Always More Special?

By Kinjal Panchal Updated June 06, 2022 8:14 PM

Living in an Indian household, you must have experienced sexism and even favouritism between your siblings, right? Because I have. I got bashed and scolded for every wrong thing that I did but my parents have a lenient reaction to all those similar mistakes my younger brother has made and has been making. It does not go unnoticed by me how my brother’s achievements got celebrated but not mine. So, I totally related when a Twitter user shared how her parents cheered for her brother on his first day at work but did not do the same for her.

Twitter User Shares How She Faced Discrimination At Home

A Twitter user who goes by the username ‘chak de gangland’ went on to write how it was her elder brother’s first day at a new job and her parents were cheering for him. She further went on to say how she has worked in the past before and also interned at several places but never once have her parents cheered for her. Her tweet read, “I hate how today was my elder brother’s first day at his new job and my parents were full-on cheering him while I have worked/interned so much in the past and had so many of these first days. There was no one to cheer me on my first day at any of my previous jobs/internships.”

I hate how today was my elder brother's first day at his new job and my parents were full-on cheering him while I have worked/interned so much in the past and had so many of these first days. There was no one to cheer me on my first day at any of my previous jobs/internships.

— chak de gangland 🇵🇸 (@matharutaran) June 6, 2022

She further went on to tweet, “fuck the patriarchy truly”.

fuck the patriarchy truly

— chak de gangland 🇵🇸 (@matharutaran) June 6, 2022

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This is absolutely unfair and I am sure many of you must have felt this gender-based discriminatory treatment done by your parents done towards you. It is still shocking how parents discriminate between their own children and yet have the audacity to say to our faces that they love all their children equally, *rolling my eyes*