Cleanliness has historically been used as a cultural gatekeeping mechanism to reinforce status distinctions based on a vague understanding of “niceness”: nice people, with nice yards, in nice houses, make for nice neighborhoods.
What lies beneath the surface of this anti-messiness, pro-niceness stance is a history of classist, racist and sexist social structures.
This is from a COLLEGE PROFESSOR-LEVEL stupid.
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Just her excuse for keeping a messy house.
Few groups are as utterly stupid as "professors".
When I was a kid (the 80s) it was common to hear from black mothers that "being clean doesn't cost anything."
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