Prepare to laugh. Sex & Culture and Green Beings are teaming up again at Anne of Carversville.

The day began with a smile, reading that Sharon Stone said that Meryl Streep looks like ‘an unmade bed.’ Stone professed that she meant no offense, but the remark sounded like Iman saying saying the First Lady Michelle Obama isn’t beautiful - in a true beauty sort of way.

Iman, too, explained that the remark was actually a compliment. We women have the strangest ways of reinforcing each other’s confidence. Back to Sharon and Meryl.

Saying that Meryl Streep looks like an ‘unmade bed’ led the London Times to contrast the rarer ‘unmade bed’ woman with the ‘pristine pillow’ one. Surely, you see were this story is going. Which camp are you in?

Thinking about ‘unmade bed’ women and ‘pristine pillow’ ones was all I needed to be off and running, because I love the Blanche Dubois vision of the ‘unmade bed’ heroine who towers above the rest of us mere mortals.

Make no mistake. I run a tidy ship but I could relate to this story. By the time I finished with Unmade Beds | Pristine Pillows: Which Woman Are You? I even added Ivana Trump looking pretty ‘unmade bed’ in her underwear and Sharon Stone — the ‘pristine pillow’ bare-breasted on Paris Match to celebrate her 50th birthday.

There are advantages of moving ‘sexy’ to its own channel, to keep Old Ladies Rebellion civilized.

Here’s the clincher, and I had to post it here, because we all know that women are serious about their housework.  The BBC reports that untidy beds may keep us healthy.

I repeat, an unmade bed may be a sign of decadence, sloth and too much champagne last night, but it may also be our first line of dense against the 1.5 million bed bugs (and legions more) that want to camp out with us each night.

The bugs, which are less than a millimetre long, feed on scales of human skin and produce allergens which are easily inhaled during sleep.I know — forget how much antibacterial soap we use. Dust mites love a warm, moist atmosphere, especially a tidy bed that hasn’t had an opportunity to dry out during the day.