Back in the '80s, I would sometimes refer to myself as an 'anarco-feminist', and had feminists get very angry at me. As for me calling me a wimp, I just laugh at them as no one who knows me would say any thing like that other than as a joke. When I was a child, I would hear other boys saying things like "girls are dumb and weak", to which I would reply, "Oh, so you've not met my sisters?" By the time I was a teen, bully's would try to bug me with "you gonna get your sister to beat me up?", as by that time several of my older sisters had gotten reputations for beating up boys, but I never needed their help as my one brother (#3 in line and 9 years older than me) thought me to fight, usually by beating me up! To put it simply, I have never be afraid to demand equality between the sexes, and have a tattoo on my right arm that is a joined male/female symbol with an anarchist 'A' in the circle it's in my photos).
As for growing up in such a large family, like I said, I was mostly raised by my sisters. In age they go oldest boy born 1950, oldest sister, 1951, #3 - brother 1952, #4 - sister 1954, #5 - sister 1955, #6 - sister 1957, #7 - sister 1959, then me , in 1961. # 6 and #7 were the closest to me (Muggsy and Jewels), and when I got out of the Canadian army in 1980, the three of us went to England to meet out Aunts , Uncle, etc., and did a hitch hiking tour of France, Switzerland and Italy. Muggsy (#6) and I are the only ones with no kids, and only one of our other sisters isn't a grandparent. (#5). But it gets better, our father (DOB 1921), who immigrated from England in 1948, left a wife and child back there because he couldn't stand her parents (baptists) and she insisted on living with them. So that makes my mother his wife #2, and he stayed with her until she died suddenly (32 years). Last year my father buried wife #5, and the only one of his wives still alive is the one he left in England!
Any way, I babel. I hope that was a little entertaining.
Cheers!