My[32/F] mom[62/F] seems male identified. How can I cope?

I noticed that she tends to defend problematic men. She gets angry when I complain about men sexually harassing and objectifying me. They do things like follow me and yell at me to make me uncomfortable and she acts like I should be grateful they find me attractive.

When it comes to my younger brother assaulting me in the past, she puts more emphasis on the things that I did to provoke him to anger. She now thinks that siblings hating each other and fighting is so normal since domestic violence against women is normalised in Nigeria. Heck even my younger brother bragged about how I’m the only woman he enjoyed physically assaulting out of anger and she never called him out on it (my other brother called him out on it though). She probably believes that just because our father used to beat her that I should tolerate bad behaviour from men as well. I’m Nigerian and the women in this country seem to hate women.

Posted Aug 7, 2025, 12:57 AM UTC

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