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Why are Dad's soo unfair?!
Ok so my name is Melinda Grace but everyone calls me 'Gracie'and Im 13. And lately my dad's been really unfair to me and my twin sis Lissa because he let's our older brother Matt do whatever he wants but he doesn't let us do anything and he grounds us all the time. Like how a couple days ago Matt heard me tell Lissa about this boy that I really like. He gave me his phone number and I think he wants me to be his girlfriend. But when matt heard me tell that to lissa he told my dad that I had a boyfriend and I was hanging around boys all the time at school. So dad got all mad and took my phone and started to read the text messages that 'my boyfriend' sent. All the messages said was that he thought I was cute and he wanted to kiss me, they weren't even that bad. But dad started yelling at me sayin how I was too young to be flirting and talking to boys and that I shouldn't even be thinkin about boys. Bbut I wasn't even flirting and what's wrong with talking and thinkin about boys?! So dad kept yellin and I started to walk away and he grabed my arm and keeped yellin at me so I screamed at him to let me go and now he took my fone and my laptop so now I hav to sneak and use Lissa's and I'm grounded 'until furter notice'. Its just soo unfair! Matt has a different girlfriend every week and all dad does is laugh and joke with him saying how matt's jus like dad was when he was he's age but if I even think about havin a boyfriend dad goes nuts! That's not fair! Matt's only 3 years older that's not much of an age difference. Is it bcuz I'm a girl? What do I do to make Dad understand? Isn't he being mean and showing favorism just because Matt is a boy?
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Your brother is a fink. Tell his friends and everyone else that he's a narc and can't be trusted. That ought to cool his jets. If my brother ever pulled that crap on me I would have put him in the hospital.
Okay, now realize that you're 13, first of all. Your father knows that the objective of adolescent males is to bone you so that they can brag about it to their buddies and "put points on the board". You may not have any intention of allowing them to do so, but your dad just can't handle that prospect. He also has a narcissistic thing going on, being afraid that you will become the town tramp if he doesn't keep the screws on you and embarrassing him.
Keep in mind that the media, especially local news, has been pushing fear in a big way the last few years and this has led to many parents helicoptering their kids (controlling their lives to an obsessive extent) out of what is mainly irrational level of fear ginned up in the media.
Now I don't think you did anything wrong here and your dad did not handle this like a mature adult. By the same token, teens have poor impulse control (your brain is still developing at this point and so the little voice that moderates impulse isn't that well refined yet) and aren't good at judging the full array of possible consequences of their actions. Their native insecurity also makes them subject to peer pressure instead of looking at it as they are the only ones who can live their lives and not to allow others to make decisions for you.
So take all these considerations into account and then talk to your dad about it. He has to relax because if he doesn't, he is going to totally undermine his authority through seeming so panicky. He needs to be more of a manager in questions like this instead of a dictator.
In response to that, you have to prove that you are capable of not needing to be shackled by acting responsibly and reasonably. That is the deal parents want with their children. Are you ready to really do it? Because once, and I mean ONE TIME, you show that you can't handle independence it will be snatched away from you. That is the way the world works.
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In a sense I have to agree with hitlerthegoat: There is a double standard between fathers and daughters and fathers and sons. When a boy comes home and tells his dad about his latest conquest dad puffs out his chest and goes "that's my boy".
If he finds out some other boy is trying the same thing with his daughter it's chastity belts and baseball bats.
Your brother can not get pregnant, you can. There is a difference in dealing with a boy who is stupid enough to get a girl pregnant then it is to deal with a girl who gets pregnant. There in lies the problem. You want to see your father go off on your brother; just let your brother get a girl pregnant. Your brother was a Big Man on Camus(BMC) until then, after words he becomes an idiot.
For daughters it is more cut and dry. As long as you keep your daughter chaste, (virgin) there are no problems to deal with. Problem is girls are going to be boy crazy and this drives dads up a wall. Because as boys once themselves they know what boys are going to try.
If we could get away with it fathers would lock their daughters up until they were 40, or at least that is the way we think when they are 13. What you need to do is show your father that you are trust worthy and that while you may be as boy crazy as the next girl, your not stupid.
If you think your father is not aware that you are in someway in some type of contact with this boy, you are kidding yourself. All dad has done and he knows this is made it harder for you. By continuing to contact this boy you are not showing your father you can be trusted.
You need to talk with you father. Explain to him what a teenage social life is for a girl your age is today. You need to tell him you are aware of his concerns and you are not stupid enough to let that happen. As you gain your fathers trust you will gain more freedom. You may never have all the freedom your brother has but you can earn the freedom you wish for, not through rebellion and sneakiness. But through cooperation and trustworthiness.
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hahaha, its not favoritism, just a good old fashioned double standard. why is he being unfair? because he's a guy, and like every other dad faced with the situation, he's probably afraid that some bastard kid will be just as bastardly as he was to girls when he was a kid, to you. his behavior toward your brother suggests that at the same time, that he's still a guy. hell, my dad and I have the same rapport, though its more of a "hey, you'll never guess how this one cheated on me!"(eleven cheating girlfriends in a row has to be some kind of record..). well, either way, you're just going to have to put up with it. because all good fathers are like that, and if you think I wouldn't do the same thing with my daughters, then you're smokin crack.
-Gunner
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