My brother has a ten year old son and a four year old girl. ALL of the bullshit we are well aware of (that society at large does not seem to get) is on display already. I can literally see it forming every day from the very beginning.

My ten year old nephew is very straightforward. Mostly honest. Tries his best. Is helpful. Concerned with others. How is he treated? Harshly, with constant criticism and demands placed upon him. And now only is he responsible for himself; he's responsible for his "little sister" because she is so young and vulnerable.

Okay then, so little innocent vulnerable sis? How are things on that side of the fence?

She is a lying, manipulating little devil who fools literally everyone involved (except me, gee what a surprise that the mgtow sees through the female imperative). She is constantly expressing and testing the limits of her power through various lies and faked/exaggerated emotions. She LOVES getting her brother in trouble and expresses obvious joy when it happens. She will literally do shit like hit him and then run crying to her parents saying he hit her. I have stuck up for him many times and am told to "stay out of it" or that I "didn't see the whole thing."

She manipulates the SHIT out of my brother and he constantly gushes about how "cute" she is. Often right in front of my nephew who barely ever gets complimented. My brother and his fiance post pictures of her all of the time on their facebook pages and hardly ever post any of him (I'm not a fan of this anyway but if they are going to do it at least be fair about it).

I have tried many times to tell my brother that she fakes/exaggerates things to control the people around her and he not only does not believe me, he gets insulted that I would even insinuate that his little princess is anything but a sweet little innocent angel. Once, I told him right in front of her that she was fake crying and when he went to her to hold her she STUCK HER TONGUE OUT AT ME OVER HIS SHOULDER!!!!!!!!!! I would have given damn near anything to have had a camera with me at that moment.

My nephew is a good kid who tried his best and actually cares about others and he gets nothing but expectations placed on his shoulders and constant criticism. Or even just being ignored. My niece is a physically adorable succubus who gets damn near anything she wants and gets all of her bad behaviours excused.

Their family is a perfect little microcosm of all that is REALLY going on in society underneath all of the nonsense talk on the surface. Drives me fucking crazy.

I have my nephew over a lot to hang out with my daughter and I make sure I try to give him what he is missing at home. Hopefully this is enough to get him through the bullshit life he has ahead of him living in crazytown where the people around him tell him to keep walking into the razorblade pool because the razorblade pool is actually a bed of sweet flowers that needs him.