Dirt is Matter Out of Place.  This was a definition created by Mary Douglas and it basically claims that what we see as dirty is what does not belong.  We expound on the benefits of nature and being one with nature but nature is far dirtier than most people’s kitchen but no one tells you to get to the kitchen for some clean, fresh air. Clean is usually associated with positive thoughts and dirty negative.  Other than perverts there are very few people who thrill at being told something is dirty or filthy and even in their cases they wouldn’t brag about it to their moms.  And of course this means the opposite of dirty, if ti is things out of place, is things in their place.  Order is what we praise and order is what we crave.  It has been said most people are more interested in order than they are justice.  This gets back to my dirty perverts thing, we have an ingrained desire for repression because we are taught that people should repress their desires.  I am not just making this up on my own, I am basically paraphrasing Gilles Gelueze.  What all this has to do with Nicki Minaj is the minor twitter scuffle last week.  The problem with associating order with all the positive, cleanliness, godliness, purity and something being out of place with dirt, with evil, with debasement is that it enforces and order that is not always just and punishes those who buck against it.  Nicki seems to have come out on top but I have certainly heard murmurings about her whining or sour grapes or the usual, “Ugg, I am so tired of hearing about it”.  It all boils down to people don’t like her not staying in her place.  Even those who might see our social structure as injust still crave the same order as everyone else and become annoyed for reasons they don’t understand when someone bucks the order.  Those that benefit from order are often the most annoyed because they see it as an attack on them.  They are staying in their place and now you are saying you want to be in that place?  Extrapolate from that what you will.  I won’t go further because I assume I have bored everyone and I am not particularly qualified to discuss race relations and I tend to ramble.  I am glad Nicki Minaj’s point seems to have been heard if not entirely embraced.  It is why I am posting her.  Kind of.  I mean it happened a week ago but I was thinking about it.  I like her.  So she is here.  Today I want to fuck Nicki Minaj.