A Tale of The Two Brothers (W & H)
Imagine a wealthy family that runs a big bussiness that they’re all involved in. They all know each other’s dirty laundry. Some of them are decent, some, not so much.
The younger brother gets along with his older brother and sister in-law just fine, but then, he’s not around them all the time. He doesn’t notice that somewhere along the line, his older brother decides to take after Dear Old Dad and cheat on his wife, something both brothers long belived has caused their mother great suffering.
One dy the younger brother comes home to introduce his new love to the family. The older brother, unhappy with his own marriage, and cheating, things he’s doing the right thing to dismiss the new girlfreind and advise his younger brother to wait. Considering that the older brother had spent most of his twenties “waiting”, and the younger brother was now well beyond taht age, and more mature, and the advise was coming from an adulterer, it did not sit well with the younger brother.
The younger brother introduce his fiancee to his family and their life. Unlike the last three women to marry into the family, all of whom were young and vastly inexperienced, this women is all grown up. She is a self-made success, well-educated, very disciplined, strong work ethic, sophisticated and biracial. Because it’s not her first rodeo, when she meet her new family it takes her about 5 minutes to realize that her new sister in-law is not happy camper, and her new brother in-law is running around. And once the younger brother sees what’s going on, well, there’s no unseeing it. This is the source of the anger between the two brothers. The cheater feels he has the Right to cheat, just like dad and granpa. Someday he’ll run everything, so he’s entitled, and the wife just have to take it. The younger brother is appalled that his sister in-law, who he genuinely likes, is being treated this way. It’s a betrayal of his mother.
His sister in-law, angry and embarrassed at what her husband is doing and the fact her brother in-law and his fiancee know it, does not appreciate or want symphaty from the feminist that just showed up on the scence. She will do almost anything to keep her position as a futer family matriarch secure, including putting a happy face on infidelity, and she doen’t want symphaty from the black actrees.
On the top of that, at the first family holiday dinner, the fiancee is immediatly greeted by a family bigot literally wearing her racism on her chest in the form of a huge broach of a black slave — at a Christmas dinner. Since our feminist fiancee is no fool, it is not lost on her that no one in the family objects to this blatant racism. At the same dinner, the family pedophile takes an intense and open dislike to her, because, oh i don’t know, maybe because she really is a feminist and he’s a creepy pedophile. The fiancee can’t be fool by the fake kiss and smile. She talk about the global charity she has been made before she meet the younger brother. It’s passionete the leader of the family, at that time. Something that the sister in-law didn’t like. An envy and jeolusy gets trough her head. The fiancee also talk about how important a woman to be independent, fight for the womens right, and againts racism. It’s shocked the member of the family. And that is what no one but the couple really understands — that she really is a dedicated feminist. And the racism and misogyny on display in her new family is impossible to ignore. The sister in-law made her choice to side with the family, no matter what, including raising her children to accept the pedophile uncle at all family occasions, which is how children are groomed to accept it, by normalizing it in their own family, all because she wants the pay-off.
Fast forward to the couple married and expecting a baby. Where will the biracial feminist mother decide to raise her mixed race children? Around open racists? Around adulterers? Around pedophile enablers? Around misogyny? The older brother and sister in-law have accepted that as the price they must pay to get what they want. And they will raise their sons to think that’s how men are, and their daughter to believe they deserve to be treated badly by men like that.
The feminist and her husband realizing the extreme dysfunctionality of the family, decide not to raise their family to believe that is what decent people do, so they move away. And live happily ever after.
