It's really hard to teach anybody anything when you're coming from a position of resentment. I think that's why it's so difficult for me to communicate to the women in my family the frustration I feel at the helpless behavior they embrace because they were born (and identify as) female.

"Oh, when Dan comes over he can fix it."

"The couch is too heavy, when Josh gets here him and your father can move it."

It pisses me off, and in getting pissed off I become the worst kind of obnoxious, empassioned "teacher."

I'm making them deaf and I'm not sure what to do about it