How can I accomplish getting a peaceful home with my siblings, mom, etc?

My mom greatly favors my younger brother over me...how can I get her to treat us equally?

• I know this is long but please read it. I am 16 and my younger brother is 13, and my mom always blatantly favorites him. She gives him allowance, $20 every other month, but not me, and when I ask her why, she says "your brother works for this: he gets good grades, he keeps his room clean, you can't even be bothered to hang up your towel in the morning!" I try just as hard as my brother in school, but he's in middle school (I got practically straight A's in middle school, exactly the same as him) and I'm in high school which is significantly harder and I still keep all A's and B's. When it comes to cleaning our rooms, I will admit that he is much cleaner than I am, but I have method to my madness, and I still clean my room at least once every few weeks. When it comes to chores, they are never exactly equal, for example I am supposed to clean our shared bathroom and do the dishes, and although we are supposed to share responsibility for our three dogs, I am the one who makes sure they have food and water and takes them out to go to the bathroom. My brother doesn't ever really take on household responsibilities except for keeping his room clean, and other than that he just sits in his room playing the Xbox or PS3 (he has both, both gifts from my mom) on his TV (we had a spare TV sitting in the garage--guess who it went to?) and swearing quite loudly, but of course my mom overlooks the fact that he swears constantly and when I say any single swear word I get punished. Anyways, last week I mentioned to my mom that I wanted to get a TV so that I could play my Nintendo 64 and Gamecube (the gamecube was a birthday gift from my dad around five years ago, and I had to buy the N64 myself, my parents are divorced by the way), both of which are currently sitting unused because I'm not allowed to keep them plugged into the TV in the living room because my mom and stepdad have to be able to watch TV down there. The main reason I wanted the TV is so that I could plug in the Xbox, for which my brother oh so generously said "you can have it as long as I don't want to use it," and buy Skyrim. She reluctantly agreed to take me to Best Buy to look (because my brother also needed more RAM for his laptop), and after we got there she said that we would look at Costco later because they have cheaper prices. Now is probably a good time to mention that when my brother got the extra TV several years ago, my mom rationalized it by saying that if she ever bought a new TV for one of us, I could have it. So today my mom took my brother and I out shopping because my brother needed new bedding, and she said we could go to Costco to look at TVs while we were out. When we got there, my mom started looking at the TVs and saying to my brother "I think this one would work best in your room because...etc etc etc" and I was basically like "WHAT??" I mentioned to her that she told me we were going to get me a television and I reminded her of the promise she made to me when she gave my brother the spare, to which she responded that she never made me that promise and that my brother had more use for a new TV than I did, so I could have his old one. I'd had about enough at this point and I started to cry at which point my mom called me a spoiled brat which of course made me cry harder. When my mom later called over a salesperson to talk about pricing she told him that she needed a cheaper one because "apparently my daughter wants one now, too." She talked about getting a huge one for my brother and a smaller one for me, and when I told her that that wasn't fair she told me that life isn't fair and to stop crying and being such a brat. Eventually, she said that she'd have to go home and come back because she didn't have time to deal with the s*** I was giving her and she needed to get home and make dinner. I know I probably am sounding like a spoiled brat for all this fuss over a television, but in all honestly I could care less about the TV; I care more about the fact that my mom is very obviously favoring my younger brother over me. In fact, in the car on the way home, my mother told me to stop pouting and that she didn't feel like buying me anything acting like this, and that my brother really deserved a flat screen because he's a GOOD boy, and he TRIES in school, and he's RESPONSIBLE, on and on and on. When I got home I immediately went to my room and started crying even harder and really I just wanted my mom to come in and ask me what was wrong so that I could tell her to stop picking favorites but when she came in all she said was "if you don't stop acting like this you're not allowed to come down for dinner." I just really want my mom to treat me the same way she treats my brother, or at least to treat him the way she treats me. I'd rather neither of us get special treatment than just him. Is the

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  Theres no real way u can its a natural thing she favors him more...just as ur father favors u more...