cleavage

Nothing says “fresh start” like a little shoulder boulder cleavage, which Mark Zuckerberg seemed to agree with.

The homeowner-renter divide was the survey’s most significant social cleavage in attitudes toward the construction of affordable housing, rent control and universal basic income, mattering more than differences in race, income and education.

So, when we talk about class politics, analysts on the left are quick to point to trends in income and voting, which seemingly deny the existence of a class cleavage.

It was a racy variation on a schoolboy’s shorts, with suspenders rising between the cleavage.

“There are toxic cleavages and an incipient social fragmentation that can easily turn into instability.”