Posted on 03/17/2023 12:27:03 PM PDT by Red Badger
There was a time when cleanliness was viewed as “next to godliness.” That clearly has changed. It is now apparently next to white supremacy. While it would be impossible to discuss all of the wacky scholarship being published today, Loyola (Chicago) Professor Jenna Drenten is a standout with a new theory that “cleanliness” is a “cultural gatekeeping mechanism” with “racist,” “sexist” and “classist” roots. It turns out that the sweet spice rack that your kid brought back from shop is actually a stratified, structural vehicle for white supremacy and male dominance . . . unless you keep it messy. Otherwise, you are pushing racist, sexist “pantry porn.”
Professor Drenten has struck out at a social media trend of posting videos showing off different ways to organize pantries. Where many see neatness, Drenten sees racism and sexism. She notes that these video creators, “predominantly white women,” have created “a new status symbol” to replace the old one of “nice houses,” “nice yards” and “nice neighborhoods.” She wrote: Cleanliness has historically been used as a cultural gatekeeping mechanism to reinforce status distinctions based on a vague understanding of “niceness”: nice people, with nice yards, in nice houses, make for nice neighborhoods.
What lies beneath the surface of this anti-messiness, pro-niceness stance is a history of classist, racist and sexist social structures.
She warns others not to fall for “pantry porn”:
Magazines like Good Housekeeping were once the brokers of idealized domestic work. Now online pantry porn sets the aspirational standard for becoming an ideal mom, ideal wife and ideal woman. This grew out of a shift toward an intensive mothering ideology that equates being a good mom with time-intensive, labor-intensive, financially expensive care work.
Pantry maintenance is a new area of racism and sexism for Professor Drenten. Before she went after domestic Bull Connors, she blew the whistle on video gaming with papers on “Video Gaming as a Gendered Pursuit” and “More Gamer, Less Girl: Gendered Boundaries, Tokenism, and the Cultural Persistence of Masculine Dominance.”
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If it’s racist to think that blacks can’t keep a clean kitchen ... you might be a Democrat.
In the interest of full disclosure, if this woman owns or has an interest in a restaurant, she should let us know.
I wouldn’t even want to eat at her house.
My fraternity house was the least racist place on earth.
If you see racism everywhere except inside yourself, you’re most likely a demonrat.
White Liberals are the most racist towards blacks of all. They encourage blacks to continue behaviors that keep them at the lower rungs of society, just so that White Liberals can come on their “White Horse” as their “saviors”.
Malcolm X was 100% dead on when he said that the White Liberal was the greatest enemy of black people.
There are pictures of Kim Kardashians well organized pantry...Who knew she was a racist????
It seems everything I do is racist and makes me a white supremacist. I’m decided a while back that I’m going to embrace that instead of fighting. Sucks to be you if you are black, brown, or yellow.
Something black dems seem to have forgotten...
In all seriousness, I think most of us fail to appreciate how much Jesus changed the game regarding race. He came to a world where your race/tribe determined virtually everything about you, including your religion. Jesus threw that line of thinking into the trash when He said He came for both the Jews and the Gentiles. Then after His resurrection His early disciples and apostles, who themselves were Jews, went virtually everywhere to Jews and Gentiles. Thomas took the gospel to India. Paul into Europe. Mark into Egypt and Africa. Christianity was the first major religion to not give a darn about race.
When the Dims make everything about race they're trying to undo one of the major benefits Jesus brought to the world.
Jenna is pretty much saying that nonwhites are messy and dirty.
How racist!
Bathing, showering as well as participating in swim clubs are racist and sexist whitey pastimes.
Water is bad for you. Using it to wash your body encourages pollution. Soap is banned.
Showing up to work on time, or even showing up at all, is racist.
... considering the subject it figures that Jenna would either be black or a homely white nag.
Maybe there’s a preponderance of white woman making videos about pantry organization because the U.S. still has a preponderance of white women.
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