Today I was in the grocery store, and I watched the guy in front of me with an almost excited grin whip out his card and slip it into the machine, where he proceeded to go to work on it seeming quite satisfied and engaged.

If a subset, perhaps even the bulk of man is drawing from underlying subconscious phallic symbols, that which penetrates and that which is penetrated, what are women seeing when they too must penetrate? How do they access that role? Is the plastic card a surrogate phallus, do they see themselves as manipulating an abstract entity's (but not their own) phallus, to achieve their ends? When a man wields a club to an extent it merges with him, it becomes part of his body concept, how do women view tool use? Is this how women view the intersex dynamic, that they are augmenting, modulating, and manipulating the man and thus his "phallus" (his basis for and expression of penetration)?

The way the man inserts his card has to do with his state and primarily his self portrayal of his status, it will signal this to others. I imagine sexuality is signaled to cashiers constantly, on many levels, implicitly. I can't say I personally see everything in terms of penetration, but dealing with the vast majority of people, it oftens comes to seem they do. It is that which penetrates, and that which submits to its penetration, in all things. Regardless of if sexuality is truly all permeating, I'm still wondering what women think of inserting the shape into the slot. The rod into the slot. Everyone is composed of both the masculine and the feminine, but to what depth in everyday life does the average person access these different basis?