I’m 18 and I had ignored the sexiest behavior of my dad’s side of the family. I had never really experienced sexism until I was 10. Being Mexican American my family speaks mostly Spanish when together. We are having a family dinner when my grandma and mom are doing all the work in the kitchen and my male family members are sitting. I’m sitting with the when my grandpa said “why aren’t you helping in the kitchen” I said there was nothing I needed to do. He responded with ” your a girl, you should stay in the kitchen anyways”. I got upset and left. Hours later when dinner is finally done my grandma calls all of the girls into the kitchen and said ” sírvanle a los hombres comida” which means serve the men food. Serve… Serve. My cousins didn’t bat an eye but I grabbed a plate served my self and sat down with the men. They all stared at me, I looked at my cousins and said grab your food and sit down too. My grandpa when on to say where their food was and I said in the kitchen like everyone else’s. They made a whole deal of how they should have gotten food first, I said you have feet and arms that are not broken. I SERVE only myself and so do they(my cousins)
