Very hard to answer that question..

I got all the best stuff..

Most of which I was already born with..

such as brains, good looks, the youngest parents etc...

Still, I was regurlarly thrashed by my father for failing to respect the wishes of the fool or agree to his socialist bullshit.. Which included sending me to a posh private school oddly enough in true socialist hypocrit fashion..

My younger siblings where spoiled by my dad, the fact that they were not as clever as me seemed to mean that low expectations where had of them..

My mum always made it very clear that she knew who was the clever one in the family and indeed she did treat me much better than the others..

I could do no wrong in her eyes, if I made the other kids in the street eat worms, dirt and poisonous berries it was there fault for being so stupid as to do what I told them..

So, my mother also got beatings off my father for standing up for me and defending me!

It took my dad nearly 4 decades to recognise that indeed, his eldest son was the finest thing ever to escape from his scrot and ruin his single life..

Though my mother says she never was that arsed about marrying my dad anyway !

It got all mashed up in my experience.
When I was very young, I could no wrong - as I grew up, I could do no right.

All participants confirmed that they had siblings. Then 50% of participants in this following poll said, they feel it was their younger siblings that were constantly pandered to and spoiled.

So, IF we are to PRETEND that it's a big enough sample, I'd like to offer 3 theories on this, and I'd like to hear your opinion on them:

1.) So, do you think it's a sound theory that the prevalent reason of people here being sensitive about gender injustices, is because they experienced preferential treatment of their (mostly younger) siblings in their childhood and they are now projecting their feelings about this onto gender relations? I.e. are these people sensitive about female privileges because they've been through enough injustices in their childhood already and are therefore quick to spot an injustice?

2.) Second theory is the one about those who picked the "I was the one being spoiled" option. Could it be that these people were so used to everything being about them all the time, that they now have a hard time being disadvantaged for the benefit of the others (=women)?

3.) Finally, do you think the reason people who chose the "we were all treated the same", are here because they were used to equal treatment and now can't stand see some people (women) being privileged?

Do you think these theories are complementary, or only the first one has some merit (given the poll results) and the other two are just anomalies?

Do you think that it's worthwhile to even look in the childhood era for reasons of people being sensitive to gender injustices (given that the great majority of participants said they felt disadvantaged over their siblings - younger or older ones)?

The options you offer are too limited to describe the complexities of real family relationships. For instance, my older brother was definitely my parent's favorite. Did I feel jealous of him? No. He was jealous of me. Admitted it too.

How is this possible? Well, he didn't live at home until he was 16 (foster parents). So, he saw me as the privileged one, although both my parents were rather hostile and indifferent to me. I was already alienated from my parents by the time he arrived on the scene.

There you have the key: I felt betrayed by my parents, who rejected me for no good reason and treated me unjustly

Siblings had nothing to do with it, in my case.

I was the oldest, so I can't say anything about older siblings. Actually, that isn't entirely true. I have an older half sister who was raised by my grandparents, but I was told she was my cousin until I was 13, so it doesn't really count. She's crazier than a bedbug, by the way. I'm crazy too, but in my case, it's fun crazy.

My parents were alcoholics, and I was the classic oldest child in an alcoholic family. The Superstar. Perfect grades. Had responsibility for everything everyone did. One time, my parents left me at my high school graduation, and I had to find my own way home. When I said something about it, I was told not be that way and immediately shut myself up and pretended like it hadn't happened. One time, I was away at outdoor school for a week (it's something we used to have here in the States - too long to go into now). When I got home, not only did no one notice I was gone, I got blamed for a towel rack my sister had broken in my absence. One time, my parents were an hour late picking me up from the airport because Satan, I mean my mom, wanted to stop for dinner first.

Wow, didn't mean to rant there. There was more coming, but I managed to shut it off! I guess maybe I'm drawn to this movement for a couple of reasons. One, I know what it's like to live in a crazy place where reality has nothing to do with facts. And two, I know what it's like being told what I am allowed to think and what opinions I am allowed to have, and I resent like hell how feminism does that.

Middle answer for me--closest one.

My sister would start fights and I'd be blamed for it. Also, she was in special education and my parents were always off fighting her battles with the school--they figured I'd be okay since I was in accelerated classes.

Years later my dad admitted that he'd wrongfully blamed me for starting a lot of stuff and he apologized. Of course I forgave him!

This thread is relevant to my childhood. I have a sister who's four-and-a-half years older than I, who was favoured by my dad, and severely favoured by my grandparents. My sister barely ever got smacked, whereas my dad would smack me for fairly small things. One time, I was walking along the landing to go to the toilet in the middle of the night, and as I walked past my sister's bedroom door, she burst out, and started having a go at me for something. Seconds later, my dad burst out of his room, and had a go at us and made me go back to bed, slapping me across the back of the head as I went; my sister, typically, did not get smacked at all, despite the fact that it had been her causing the commotion, and that I had been merely going to the toilet. Just an incident which sticks out in my mind.

As for my grandparents, who their favourite grandchild was could hardly have been more obvious. As kids we would argue and fight a lot, and my grandfather would always separate us or come in to calm things down, and would then always proceed to shout right in my face, barely looking in my sister's direction at all. When my sister was in high school, my grandfather always offered her a lift to school, and for a year while we both attended the school, we both got one. When my sister left school and I was still there, however, he refused to give me a lift, and would always ramble on about fuel prices and the need for exercise, whenever I asked for one. There were even times when I was running late and could really have benefitted from a lift, yet he still would almost always refuse me one. He'd never give me a lift to friends' houses a mile or two away, yet would pick my sister up from a boyfriend's house, which was seven miles away; and this was the man who would cite fuel costs as his main reason for not giving me a lift.

So, yeah, I've experienced female-favouritism first-hand.

I don't wish to appear picky here Rebadow but you don't have a theory, you have a speculation, a hypothosis, which is unformed and doesn't even mention the Null.

A Theory is a comprehensive explanation of a constellation of controlled and exact observations, and is testable through the use of hypothoses, which are usually conducted to try to disprove the theory (hence the need for a null.)

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