My favorite place to deliver orders was the Eurodollar pit. I didn't know what a Eurodollar was, but the pit was huge and busy, and it was all men. The men got excited when I walked by, so when I got a bunch of orders from the people on the phones, I delivered them inefficiently so I could walk by the Euro pit and see the men get excited.

The broker I deliver to had three pit clerks. At first, I'd give the order to anyone, but then I knew that just one guy held the pile of orders on paper -- the deck -- and the other two guys watched for hand signals from the people on the phones -- arb.

I walked by the Euro pit on the way to the Swiss pit, and one of the Euro arb guys said, "Hey, you never give me anything anymore."

I said, "That's because you don't hold the deck."

The other Euro arb guy said, "That's not what he's talking about."

I passed by again and the deck guy asked me how I got my legs so strong and tan. I didn't realize my legs were strong and tan.

I flexed my legs as I walked back to the Bache desk, where I stood around until someone called in a new order.

I got a S&P order. "Hey," one of the Euro guys yelled, "that slit sure is high."

I looked at my dress. I was the only person on the floor who wore a dress. Actually, it wasn't a dress but a beach cover up, and it was slit to the top of my thigh; There were strict dressing regulations on the floor, and this was one of the only things I owned that met the requirements.

In the Chicago Mercantile Exchange she learns about power, mainly the sexual power inherent to her figure. She has the ability to excite them, observed from the gazes of the workers and their praises towards her legs, exaggeratedly shaped by her clothes. Nevertheless, she did not utilize her dresses to impress, she was asked to use them because the policy of the enterprise was strict with the dressing code, one that converts women into objects through phallocentric requirements. The dress as the normal clothing for women is still compulsory, in opposition to the pants (traditionally associated with dominance and relegated to men, the “superior” gender). In spite of being considerated an object, she finds another kind of power that exert women: the use of her attributes to draw attention on her an obtaining favors.

In this texts there is a mystery to unlock: the way she has obtained a “normal job” right after having almost fallen down with the photography sessions. We might think she has received a recommendation from a man to whom she might have been appealing.

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