One of the women interviewed explains that she was picked up once with her pimp: she was arrested he walked free. In a recent article, it reported that a group of women who were sexually exploited as teenagers were looking to have their prostitution convictions wiped because they see their records as "catalogue of abuse". Prostitution is illegal in the United States and attempts to unionize and decriminalize the sex trade has fallen flat in America, as opposed to other countries. Women who choose to participate in this exchange of sex for money are punished. The mother gives the son life, maintains his life, but this guy is a parasite operating under assumptive power of being the eldest son in a fatherless family. "It is for him my mother wants to go on living, so he can go on eating, so he can have a roof over his head, so he can still hear someone call him my his name" (81). He is under the protection of his mother who covers his debts when she can, to the detriment of her other children. Her brother doesn't find it difficult, but only because he never suffers any consequences for his actions. Some men find it difficult to be patriarchs" (ix).
"In return for all the goodies men receive from the patriarchy, they are required to dominate women, to exploit and oppress us, using violence if necessary in order to keep the patriarchy intact. In her text, she explains that if males and females are equal, then the pressure to be the patriarch is lifted from the males. The great bell hooks claims this is the very reason why Feminism is for EveryBody. I ask, why are they for you? He says, Because that's how it is." (85). "Reminds him the big pieces of meat are for him, and he mustn't forget it. One evening while the children are eating dinner, the eldest brother watches the other two eat, and warns the other brother to not eat so much. However, another read would be that her anger is rooted in his greedy assumption of his role as head of their family, gobbling the spoils, but not accepting any responsibility. I used to think her anger was rooted in childhood sexual abuse, and I feel like the evidence is still there. But I still feel like the abuse she suffered and the hatred she feels toward him is rooted in more than his typical "dickish" behavior: he squanders the family fortunes, he steals, he attempted to rape their mother's maid. She blames her older brother for the death of her other brother (who she calls her younger brother, which is confusing because he is two years older than her.
"the child-killer of the night, of the night of the hunter". She fantasizes about killing him, and refers to him as "the killer" in many instances. My guess has always been the older brother.
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