Sophie's Sentiments

     Often times, I wish I could respond deadpan to the difficult customers at my work. But I cannot. Instead, I have to put on my customer service voice: cheerful and polite.      When an "issue" (that often times would not actually be an issue to most people) or a complaint arises I usually say something along the lines of, "I'm so sorry to hear that," when really, in my head I'm thinking a bunch of, let's say, different things.      For example, if a customer complains about long wait times, I wish I could respond and say, "Would you like your chicken to be raw?" Because of course they don't want their chicken to be raw. And it's an unreasonable complaint because there's no way to speed up the cooking process.     I could say to the customer, "I don't want you to be waiting for your food any longer either because I'm tired of you giving me mean glares through the kitchen doors while I work." But, of course, I ...

     Oedipus Rex  conveyed a multitude of thought-provoking themes and lessons that are still relevant today. However, a topic that’s not elaborated on as clearly as the others, is Oedipus's biases. The poem Myth by Muriel Rukeyser shows different areas of bias that aren’t explicitly stated in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles.       In “Myth” by Muriel Rukeyser, the line that struck me the most powerful was, “you answered, Man. You didn’t say anything about woman.” This simple line given by the sphinx shows Oedipus’s ignorance in a straight-forward manner because he dismissed women and only considered men within his response. This might seem like a slight, careless mistake to some, but for me, this shows a deep bias within Oedipus that’s not fully developed within the play of  Oedipus Rex . A “mistake” like this would not be made in the good conscious of someone aware of their biases. He claims that everyone knows saying “Man” encompasses both ...