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...software consultant Wu recalls how he was once walking to work - he held down five part-time jobs to afford his graduate-school tuition - and was stopped three times in 15 minutes by police demanding to see his alien registration card. During one stint when Wu toiled as a janitor, his Japanese boss took the Chinese workers aside and admonished them against stealing from the offices they were cleaning, a warning never uttered to the Japanese staff...
...consent? Does it matter that her options are so limited? As MacKinnon pointed out, social science has documented that the vast majority of prostitutes suffered sexual abuse in childhood or adolescence, and are also desperately poor. The Crimson Staff compares the prostitute to the “janitor or factory worker.” The latter two are not routinely raped as part of their job, and then told they consented...
...argument, that poor women only go into porn because they are coerced, could just as well apply to poor people who choose other “demeaning” jobs. Dismissing the decision of a porn actress as a sign of oppression, while respecting that of the janitor or factory worker, hardly demonstrates respect for the will and subjectivity of the individual women. Despite our disagreement with MacKinnon’s views, however, we welcome discussion on the causes and effects of pornography. As she points out, the issue is too rarely considered outside the auspices of Women, Gender...
...Michael Clayton (Clooney) is a "fixer": a lawyer whose savvy and connections can get his firm's clients out of tight spots. They call him a miracle worker, but he says he's just a janitor, cleaning up other people's messes. But Clayton has no one to fix his own troubles: a heavy debt exacerbated by an addiction to gambling - and, lately, to losing. Born into a working-class Irish-American family that also weighs on him, Michael was a policeman before joining the firm. The question the film asks: Is he, at heart, a cop who collars...
...Vladimir Melnikov, janitor, handyman and an occasional driver...