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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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Is Professor Jenna Drenten saying black people are nasty slobs?
My nextdoor neighbors are black, and their house is far neater than ours.
The message needs to go out that this is what Democrats really think of black people.
Yeah, I’ve seen the commercials on TV................
Dirty cause I can’t get your paycheck with my lawyer.
We’re the Bossies.
Bossies at work
Bossies at school
Bossies at college
Bossies at sports
Bossies in court
Bossies online
Bossies in the pantry
Your dirty. Pick up your socks.
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The pile tells the tale.
“My fraternity house was the least racist place on earth.”
Made me really laugh out loud! Thanks.
we are lucky at my house, as we are in between those two (as are most people, I would bet).
in the permissive morality, experimental lifestyles, and alternative lifestyles, all virtues and standards are classist, racist and sexist social structures
Showing up to work on time, or even showing up at all, is racist.
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Looking for or even using the word “work” is prohibited.
We're closer to the latter than the former, but everything in the pantry is in its factory packaging.
I can't imagine the person (male or female, person of color, or person of no color) with enough time on their hands to break down all that food and repackage it in clear containers, filling each one juuuuust so.
Not to mention the Amazon bill just buying all of those assorted jars, canisters, and baskets.
I feel the same exact way now.
Nothing I can do will make them satisfied I’m not a racist, just being a business owner working 70 hrs/week makes me a racist now.
Might as well embrace it and stand tall I guess.
The NAGA voters like to keep things messy, like their cities.
Peppy Le Pew flips tail
“Professors” are racist. I don’t know one who isn’t.
Something smells bad about that.
Well, if the fact that I don’t want to sit around in shit my whole life somehow makes me a “White Supremacist”, so be it. No sense trying to appease that, which can NEVER be appeased. It’s just a fool’s game
But I bet they know where everything is in the messy pantry.
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