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PassingFair

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9. My older brother was a die-hard liberal democrat and a woman hater.
Tue Dec 10, 2013, 03:22 PM
Dec 2013

I think I might have has something to do with it.

As one of the younger siblings, he felt that his position as "first born male"
conferred special powers and was always upset and affronted when I
wouldn't do what he demanded.

He ALWAYS had anger issues and ended up dying of a heart attack at the
age of 52.

I never "cut him off". He was sometimes easy to talk to and he had his
good moments, but there were times when I could tell he was spoiling for
an argument. The one spot where he KNEW he could get my temper flaring
was his misogyny. So when he started calling women "bleeders" or "whores",
I would just hang up on him. If he did it in my presence, I would just walk away.

Amazingly, he would later contact me and act like it never happened.
He never apologized, he just pretended that the conversations had never occurred.

Funny thing is, his two children were both daughters!

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