People Often Dehumanize Them
The girls are very vocal about the way they feel about how other people treat them, especially Carmen. They’ve expressed contempt for people who don’t see them as fully-fledged people in their own right. They aren’t satisfied with people treating them as interesting specimen, and rightly so! Lupita and Carmen are two distinct people who happen to share some body parts.
But, unfortunately, they don’t always get treated as such. Carmen once complained that people would ask questions about how their lives work but won’t refer to them by name. Instead, people will sometimes say “the other head” instead of Lupita! How disrespectful! And they both agree they’ve been fetishized since they were nine years old by people curious about having sex with two people at once.