Word: subway
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...Finley tells the story of a man who is about to rape a woman on the subway, but is enraged to find out that she is menstruating. Kidney beans represent the menstruation. In “Mr. Hirsch,” she used melted ice cream to symbolize the mess involved when a little girl is forced to perform oral sex on her neighbor. And in “Yams Up My Granny’s Ass,” a piece that many outraged critics fixated upon, she rubbed canned yams all over her backside in order to illustrate...
...cannot say the same for a Subway sandwich, of course, which is supposed to be the same regardless of who makes it. That’s the whole point. Precise preordained amounts of bread, turkey, cheese, tomatoes and mayonnaise. It does not matter who makes the sandwich, it always turns out the same and while one earning seven dollars an hours makes some semblance of a living, she in essence makes nothing else. There is no self-expression, self-creation or individuality—just a paycheck, just a job, the suffocation of self...
...that’s the grand difference between you and me and a Subway employee. We conceive of ourselves so differently that it’s hard to imagine how she conceives of herself at all. I’m sure that she does, in some way, but I can’t seem to understand it; I just can’t get past the sandwich...
...many people in our position is that freed from the need to take a job because of the paycheck, we often do so anyway. Instead of seven dollars an hour it’s seventy grand a year, but the principle is still the same, materialism reigns. Where the Subway employee needs, we want and though society has a tendency to exalt our position, individuality falls prey to both equally. The greatest opportunity afforded by our privileged position is the chance to invert the pernicious relationship that subsumes the self to money. But instead of seizing this opportunity we often...
...think about what John Dewey had to say and you think that he was trying to save the Subway employee. And then you think about it a little more, and realize that maybe he was trying to save...