My Life as Mom's Living Warning
Are you saying that you only gave birth to Elmer to punish him and force us to obey you?
Mom froze. She couldn't believe that her own daughter would actually dare to slap her.
"I… I gave birth to Elmer because…"
Mom once told me that she had had a hard time in her own family growing up, because her family was sexist and often made things hard for her as a female. I felt sorry for her and tried to comfort her, but as it turned out, Mom took out all of her anger on me instead.
She thought that women were far superior to men. When I was little, I proudly showed her my exam papers with full marks, but she just scoffed coldly and said, "What's there to be proud of when the exam is so damn element