Lucie

I baby sit my cousins (10 and 7 years old, both boys) every 2 weeks. This time around I wore a top with the batman logo on the front, the 7 year old says “that’s a boys top”, to which I reply “I can wear whatever I want”. Praise the lord Josh (the 10 year old) quickly and loudly agrees and tells his bro, “that’s true! She can!” <3. Unfortunately, Ewan (the 7 year old that before today I would have called a dear relative) then came out with "Don't your friends laugh at you?"
Ouch kid.
Later on, they got their 2 guy friends from down the road to come over for a bit and they all played together on some lego game on the PS4. Well they didn't all get to play – but that's irrelevant to anyone seeing this it's just i'm still reeling from the pitch of the tantrum. Anyhow. At some point one of these little boys was choosing the skin he wanted his lego avatar to have. When he got to the girl one he said 'ew why would I wanna be a girl'.
I still don't know which of the little monsters it was.
Later on their dad came home and drove me back to my house, the 2 boys came along too. In the car, the boys told their dad about how I have to wear a suit to sixth form, and then Ewan (7 yr old) told his dad about some story he heard where in some high school the boys weren't allowed to wear shorts even though it was warm, so the boys wore skirts. The dad said "That's silly isn't it". I might live in Britain, but I think China could have heard my passive-aggressive, so-done-with-today, very-disappointed-in-you-uncle sigh.
Alas, I wish my less-than-woke day really did end there.
Once we got to my house, they all got out of the car to say hi to my parents and brother. We all got talking about what i'd been doing with the boys, which inevitably got onto the topic of PS4 and games. Uncle then engages my brother in a conversation about games on the PS4… My brother doesn't ever correct the fact that the 'family' PS4 has only ever been used by me and my dad. Bro has never played it, but for whatever doesn't correct our uncle and instead just sits there and talks about some games we have that are 'really good'. Again – he's never played them. All in all I got the feeling that bro just didn't want to say to our distant family that he isn't a big gamer for PS4 (he has the xbox) and our uncle didn't acknowledge the PS4 is for me and my dad, despite us talking about some games in the car ride back. I'm still reeling that some of these explicit pro-sexism comments actually happened today, I wasn't expecting it since I thought baby sitting was gonna be a simple break after exam week at sixthform. This was only my 2nd time babysitting though, and as I type this I'm protesting by buying angry feminist books with my babysitting money since i'm pretty upset with myself for not correcting any of this