Funny story about a girl irritating by her brother “ruining Thanksgiving” with his obsession with the philosopher Foucault

Loving this of an older sister sick to death of her younger brother and how he’s using his new found love of philosophy to break the social rules at home.

I am weirdly in love with this story of a 16 year old who just discovered Foucault as told by his clearly very irritated sister pic.twitter.com/Vpl1D53rn8

— mythical space queer (@femmina) November 23, 2017

Me [19 F] with my brother [16M] of 16 years and my parents 50s M/F, how to keep teen
angst from ruining Thanksgiving

I’m 19F, my brother is 16M and my mom and dad are 50s m/f.

I’ve been home from college since last weekend and I already feel like I’m gonna go crazy. My little brother (I’ll call him Jordan) is 16, and he’s the only one of us (me, my older brother Skyler, and him) to get into egotistical teen rebellion stuff so I guess my parents just don’t know how to handle it. Like when he was 14, Jordan decided to dye his hair blue, then last year it was all about this punk band he and his friends had.

Lately his thing is he won’t shut up about some philosopher guy. Literally on Monday night, my mom asked how school was and he just goes “isn‘t it funny how schools resemble factories which resemble prisons?” and I’m like huh and Jordan just goes “Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, 1975″ and I’m still like huh? And my mom just changes the subject. This is like normal for him, but he uses this philosopher guy to justify EVERYTHING and I mean breaking all of my parent’s rules that we ALL GREW UP WITH. Like neither me or my older brother were allowed to have an opposite sex friend in our room with the door closed, and Jordan has the same rule. But Sunday night, Jordan has his girlfriend over with the door closed and when mom and dad knocked and told him he had to keep the door open, and instead of just following the damn rules Jordan’s girlfriend starts going on about how the assumption that they aren’t trusted alone together is part of the bourgeois impulse to discuss sex like it’s a fragile and important treasure.

Somehow this means that Jordan and his girlfriend can hang out with the door closed now because nobody wants to argue with this crap. Which was fine but I don’t want him ruining Thanksgiving with this crap, because in addition to all the other dumb stuff Jordan has this thing against doctors, and our oldest brother Skyler (26M) is flying in TODAY after finishing his first psychiatry rotation.

My mom doesn’t know how to handle this or something and my dad acts like this is hilarious. Dad always encourage Jordan’s interests and even bought him some book about how capitalism makes you crazy so it’s basically on me to keep my brother from ruining Thanksgiving with these dumb arguments.

TLDR

brother is using some philosopher guy to justify breaking family rules and argues constantly. I just want to have a nice Thanksgiving with my family and need tips on helping me and my mom keep my little brother in line.

“I love how she tries to frame it as her being good and just saving the family grief but then turns out her dad is fine w it and she’s obv just annoyed he’s allowed girls over lol” writes @Tnichss.

Source: Twitter/@femmina