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Just tore into my parents cuz they called to ask how I was doing. How was I doing? What the fuck did they want me to say? My dumbass brother has been a constant headache since I came to India. I’ll be minding my own business and he comes and turns off the light and runs, or snatches my phone, or just nag me until I yell at him to cut it out. He lacks basic empathy and treats me the way he treats his friends, yelling at me and calling me name.
I’ve always been a sensitive person when it came to words, and I’ve cried multiple times about how his words deeply affect me and to not talk to me like I'm one of his friends. I never even understood the concept of being explicitly mean to your friends. Teasing, sure, but hateful words and slurs?
It isn’t something that should be normalized, and I find it hard to talk to people who use hurtful words. It’s not funny, and you don’t get to decide it’s whether you’re joking from the reaction of the people around you.
Like, my brother is constantly halfway saying the n-word. Like, no man, it’s not funny, it’s not cool to even pretend to say the word, and it isn’t funny to ragebait/gaslight me into believing that you weren’t gonna say the word. It’s hurtful of an entire group of people, and I really don’t believe you when you say someone gave you the “n-pass”. Like, no? Tf?? Why would even WANT to say that word? We aren’t even black?? Our blood-roots are as Indian as possible.
Anyway, my parents are also so enabling. They tell me to not do anything to my brother if he disturbs me and to tell them instead, and when I do, they don’t do shit. And then get mad at me when I do something.