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WePow, Thanks for the clarification. I was getting worried about you. I'm sure glad it is not as bad as I was imagining.
Human society does have a long history of males often being thought more important than females. It sounds like that was your experience as a daughter, and that's too bad, especially since we can't re-do our childhoods.
Often, though, it is individuals with more dominant personalities who seem to take precedence. When you feel you are being minimized as a person, don't forget to consider other reasons why someone might do that. There are a lot of other reasons why some individuals get more than their share of attention. (economic status, physical beauty, dominant personality, persistence, social status, ability to intimidate, manipulativeness, etc. etc.) I do understand that the way in which we were hurt as children is probably what we go on to be most alert for and sensitive to.
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