Who deserves to be heard?

The treatment of women in the story is something that jumped out at me, with Larry’s death being treated as something that was bound to happen at some point due to her profession and how poorly almost all the characters treat Anahi. They are both seen as lesser and the story shows it plainly when Anahi is forced to kiss the feet of Almada for 100 pesos. With this act we can see how this character treats both women and those he sees as lesser than him, in this case Anahi is both.She is also immediately dismissed by the police and the other journalist as not even a madwoman, just an idiot denying her any agency in her speech.She is dismissed due to her circumstances and her gender, as is Larry. We do not know anything about Larry even though the story is centred on her death, a common occurrence when women are murdered. The story is focused on her death and does not need to mention anything to do with her life, we do not even know her last name. She is not treated as a victim but as someone who deserved her fate and the time and resources that would be spent on her case would go to better use somewhere else, to someone more “worthy” of their case being solved.

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