As is well-known, teeth are a class marker. The working class is far more likely to have bad teeth. Even the CDC understands this. From “Disparities in Oral Health“:
About 40% of adults with low-income or no private health insurance have untreated cavities. Low-income or uninsured adults are twice as likely to have one to three untreated cavities and 3 times as likely to have four or more untreated cavities as adults with higher incomes or private insurance.
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So the demand to take off your mask “because I want to see your smile” is a demand that you enable yourself to be classified by (social) class, and possibly be deemed not dateworthy, not trustworthy, and definitely not worth being hired. (Of course, this varies by context. In the airline context, I would imagine bad teeth would translate into poor service and a less-than-happy seatmate.) And now the brief interlude with Bourdieu–
Entire article's amazing analysis of this phenomenon. From class, submission to hierarchy, and gender discrimination. Masks fuck up a lot of the disgusting coding class society's been injecting into people for centuries.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/10/let-me-see-your-smile-as-ugly-power-trip-and-classification-struggle.html
Entire article's amazing analysis of this phenomenon. From class, submission to hierarchy, and gender discrimination. Masks fuck up a lot of the disgusting coding class society's been injecting into people for centuries.
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