I've had it with the media's promotion of cleanliness. These unrealistic images of tidiness in our media are pushing people to become insecure and anxious and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders are at epidemic numbers. Situation comedies, dramas, even shows for children promote these shiny scenes of germ-less organization and model a standard than no normal family can maintain.
This false sanitation of our society has to end. Unthinking teachers are pressing students to wash their hands over and over - even holding less clean children up to public ridicule. We even have medical professionals in on this, spreading fear and threatening to appeal the
Five Second Rule and other traditional values. There is stigmatization of the sloppy and cluttered, and bullying of the rumpled is on the rise.
The standards portrayed in the media are not realistic. The number of people who die from germs on doorknobs has been exaggerated. Most families have a "junk drawer" and 67% of the population in a recent study were found to cough into their hands and not their sleeves 67% of the time. Yet our society is healthier and more robust than ever. We know, from scientific studies, that overuse of antibiotics is creating super-germs and a too clean environment can lead to later allergies in babies.
I call on the media to end these images of perfection and take a stand against Obsessive Compulsive Disorders. Consumers: just say no to media portrayals of homes with no toys on the floor and boycott hyped up cleaning products. Leave hand sanitizers to doctors and politicians and stand up for a world of responsible use of clean images.
This false sanitation of our society has to end. Unthinking teachers are pressing students to wash their hands over and over - even holding less clean children up to public ridicule. We even have medical professionals in on this, spreading fear and threatening to appeal the Five Second Rule and other traditional values. There is stigmatization of the sloppy and cluttered, and bullying of the rumpled is on the rise.
The standards portrayed in the media are not realistic. The number of people who die from germs on doorknobs has been exaggerated. Most families have a "junk drawer" and 67% of the population in a recent study were found to cough into their hands and not their sleeves 67% of the time. Yet our society is healthier and more robust than ever. We know, from scientific studies, that overuse of antibiotics is creating super-germs and a too clean environment can lead to later allergies in babies.
I call on the media to end these images of perfection and take a stand against Obsessive Compulsive Disorders. Consumers: just say no to media portrayals of homes with no toys on the floor and boycott hyped up cleaning products. Leave hand sanitizers to doctors and politicians and stand up for a world of responsible use of clean images.