Some celebrities stink...literally. The anti-bathing crowd is trending again and you can smell it coming from a mile away. It reeks in here and we have celebrities to thank for it. A list celebrities like Ashton Kutcher and Jake Gyllenhal have shamelessly promoted the anti-bathing gospel, during a deadly pandemic no less. Live and let smell, they have shouted from their celebrity mountain tops, spreading nonsense notions that humans "naturally clean themselves" and that children do not need to bathe until they stink. This insanity is leftover from the hippie movement of course, where thousands of young people rebelled about the vile male patriarchal oppression of cleanliness. Many hippies, not all, prided themselves on living a more natural life and that often meant not using soap with "chemicals". The all natural approach to life was born during the hippie movement. This naive idea that we should abandon everything labeled "traditional" (everyone has a different meaning for the term "traditional" by the way, which makes the word kind of meaningless) like marriage, having kids or living in houses, often leads to uncleanliness or at least the glorification of lifestyles that, without much hard work and a lot of money, can very much end up promoting improper hygiene practices. Many hippies wanted to use drugs that were "natural" and "from the earth" for example. So they ended up choosing LSD over their prescriptions and the results to this were not so great. Of course it is very easy, when you have a lot of money, to promote these crackpot theories, to pretend that the laws of proper health do not apply to you, that you can sit around smoking cigarettes and dropping acid all day without ever showering. This idea that we should question and challenge every single social norm dates back to this counter cultural revolution, this idea that you can change the world by denying yourself even basic luxuries like soap and shampoo. I am ashamed to admit that not bathing is still big here in California. It reminds people of the 60s I guess; ah yes, the 1960s, a simpler time, a smellier time where white people ignored their problems by escaping into the woods to have sweaty sex with each other during a flu outbreak. The celebrities of today are trying to recreate the counter culture movement from the 1960s, but they are far more in it for the profit than the groovy experiences. Did you know, for example, that not bathing has been proven to rapidly spread bacteria, cause yeast infections and can cause athlete's foot? I wonder why our celebrity friends, who just so happen to also promote various skin and anti-bacterial products, would instruct us to harm ourselves in this manner. It is almost as if they think so little of us that they believe we are stupid enough to get all kinds of skin infections and blemishes (yes, both are caused by not bathing; by the way, the acne that adults get because of not bathing is not simply acne, but legions in the face or torso caused by, you guessed it, bacterial infections), and, unfortunately, that have been correct about our level of gullibility thus far. Many people reject bathing now because of these overfed buffoons. I am happy to report that this is mostly a rich white kid phenomenon and that it has yet to spread into communities of color. And why would it? Our parents raise us not to stink because they know they luxury of rolling out of bed in the morning and heading to work smelling like rotten onions is specifically reserved for white people. I mean it too. I remember this one guy I acted with; he absolutely reeked! The boss wouldn't say anything to him about it either until a bunch of people complained. There is something about being rich and white in America. It does weird things to your brain. It makes you think that germs don't exist, that rooting around in the dirt is cool as long as your heart is in the right place. Soon white people will stink like the laws Congress passes.