Things my older brother has done over the course of my life:
1. Said the n-word (we are all thoroughly white) quietly because he believes if you say it quietly, it's "funny," or it's a quote then it's okay.
2. Embarrassed me in front of an entire group of people I was trying to be friends with because he misunderstood something I said. (We went to a Hans Zimmer concert (This was before I knew he was a tranphobe. I no longer listen to his music) and he mistook me repeating that Dark Phoenix—their favorite score to play—was their favorite movie).
3. Claimed that Christianity has a monopoly on good morals and that there should be individual schools for each race and religion.
4. Claimed that the patriarchy wasn't real after me and my sister mentioned that the Barbie movie was good.
5. Claimed feminism is full of radical misandrists who want men to be below them.
6. Got in an argument with me reasoning that Drag Queens shouldn't read to kids because they "tell kids to mutilate their bodies."
7. Supported Charlie Kirk and wore a cross after he died.
8. Is an film elitist.
9. Building off the last point, throughout a trip to visit another brother and his wife, he repeatedly tried to convince me that I couldn't say that my favorite movies were good because they, "Have no plot and they flopped at the box office."
9.b This led to many arguments including one where I told him to shut up and he told me, "Never to say that again."
9.c When I eventually told him to shut up again (At our Grandmother's Birthday (After I excitedly told our grandmother that she would get two candles on her cake because that's all she had (He sarcastically said, "Oh boy, two candles."))) he put the lid on the cake and would not let me give our Grandmother a slice until I apologized.
9.d I did not apologize because he was being a man child at the ripe age of 25 and he had to take a walk afterwards. (Mind you, I got scolded for his outburst.)
9.e Continuing the trip to visit other brother and wife: He then insisted that we watch his favorite movies the entire time and acted like a child when I pointed out that Gladiator is a retelling of Hamlet.
9.f We went to see the live action How to Train Your Dragon movie. He could not stop the running commentary on how Astrid's actress couldn't act and was an all around nuisance for the entire movie.
10. Walked out of his best friend showing us her favorite movie because he found it ridiculous.
11. Called me disgusting for being a monsterfucker.
11.b Claimed I would join a Satanic cult and marry someone who looked like the devil.
12. Called me mentally ill for finding fictional characters attractive (I asked my other other brother who the most attracive person was in his favorite anime).
13. Criticized me and called me mentally ill for being excited about Date Everything coming out and wanting to play it with my other other brother.
14. Keeps trying to help in situations that he should know don't involve him.
15. Before Mamdani became mayor of New York, he was convinced that if he got elected he would impose Sharia Law.
16. Walked around during the Covid pandemic because he thought it was stupid and that he wasn't going to get sick (he worked in a pharmacy).
16.b Hugged my Grandparents while they had Covid and then came home to the rest of us.
17. Said the only things he looks for in movies is crude humor and gore.
18. Is one of those people who hates race-swapping in movies and TV.
18.b He hated that Rachel Zegler was playing Snow White and complained constantly when Halle Bailey was cast as Ariel.
There's more, but I can't remember it right now.
