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An excellent example of how valuable the petticoating of the boys in the family can be for promoting the maturation of their sisters into strong and independent young women. I'm a bit surprised that in the case you mention that the sister was not given punishment power until age 17 (if I understood correctly). I have found that given sisters the power to discipline their brothers from a young age can be beneficial in the process of raising both the girls and the boys to be the kinds of individuals you want them to be. In fact, I've found very powerful effects of a younger sister (as young as seven or eight) having punishment power over an older brother to work wonders in helping to eliminate any hints of toxic boyishness from the brother while helping the girl develop her own feelings of strength and superiority.
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02-11-2021, 10:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-11-2021, 10:27 PM by Girlygirl.)
We have read of such accounts on here many times and I’m sure both siblings come to learn their respective places very well in such a dynamic. It is also apparent though that due to a range of beliefs and aims from the parents that exactly what treatment and/or benefit each sibling receives can be something of a lottery.Â
In my household the exact opposite was true where my sister was concerned and she was subject to petticoating about as often as I was myself, which kept her from going off the rails at the time (as seemed destined to be the case) and whilst still more nuanced than she might otherwise have been she is still very much unmistakably a tomboy. The fact that even today mother still expects my sister to ‘dress up’ when visiting her would seem to indicate that her view of tomboyism differs somewhat from the majority on this forum.
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How exquisitely humiliating for the boys to be disciplined by their sister, Miss Kirsten.
My little sister never disciplined me, but I was disciplined in front of her, and I can vouch for how utterly humiliating it is to have to wear frilly knickers and childish dresses, while she lounges around in jeans or shorts.
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My sister was petticoated just as much as I was and loathed it probably more so. That said, we were occasionally disciplined individually and being the only person in the house dressed in female attire when the other two female members of the household were wearing casuals did bring my predicament home somewhat.
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Girlygirl, may I ask how your sister was petticoated? Was it being compelled to wear juvenile girls' clothes?
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Thank you. I understand now. I just never thought of making a girl dress like a girl as being a punishment.
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I can vouch for the fact that girls don’t always like to be dressed as girls!
When I was being petticoat punished as a child my mother started to buy similar dresses for me and Lucy, my younger sister. Before too long Lucy would complain “I don’t WANT to wear the same as him. He wears dresses and I want to wear jeans!â€
It was excruciatingly humiliating being made to wear a dress while my little sister was allowed jeans.