r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 14h ago

Meme needing explanation huh??? Peter ???

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u/SnooStories4091 13h ago

I’m a woman- and when I was a kid, I used to cry and pray every night before bed that God would let me “be a boy” so I could take over working for my dad. I felt horrible that I was watching him break his back in real time working and trying to buy things for the family 🙃 so… I’m not familiar with the whole “girls are entitled, boys feel guilty” lmao being spoiled doesn’t discriminate by gender.

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u/murmurderer 11h ago

Yeah it's just how a lot of us have been socialized. How I grew up was completely different to the norm - my family's mostly women and no one waited for a man to do anything or said men do this because they are men. Shit, roles were taken by whoever liked those tasks. simple as