We see shit as filthy and unsanitary, and in the past, the disposal of it was used as a way to show class status and create a separation between the classes. Having a clean and sanitary home made you better than those who didn’t, and cleanliness was seen as being closer to God. In the present, if we see an area of a town with visible waste it would often be attributed to people not having a lot of money. People would then go on to think of it as the “bad” part of town, and it would then be associated with crime, and in turn, people of color and marginalized groups. This goes back to what we read in Gerling’s writing, where it discusses how people of higher class status and social status were the first to have access to sanitation resources like plumbing, sewage, toilets, etc, which made the wealthier areas of towns and cities cleaner, and seen as better.