Loyola U. professor: Keeping a well stocked and neat kitchen pantry is racist

[Anti Federalist]

Loyola U. Prof: Neatly Organized Pantries Are Rooted in Racism, Sexism

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/...racism-sexism/

ALANA MASTRANGELO 17 Mar 2023

A Loyola University professor is claiming that organized pantries are rooted in “racist and sexist social structures,” and that the new so-called “pantry porn” trend, in which people show off their “neatly aligned glass spice jars tagged with printed white labels” and “wicker baskets filled with packages of pasta, crackers and snacks,” has become a status symbol for white women.

Associate professor Jenna Drenten wrote an op-ed for the website, the Conversation, in which she reacted to what she calls “pantry porn,” a phenomenon where “obsessively organized kitchens” have become “a new status symbol” on social media.

“I’ve noticed an uptick in glamorized, stylized and fully stocked pantries on TikTok and Instagram, giving rise to a content genre I dub ‘pantry porn,'” Drenten wrote.

“What lies beneath the surface of this anti-messiness, pro-niceness stance is a history of classist, racist and sexist social structures,” the professor added.

Drenten went on to say that “Influencers who produce pantry porn are predominantly white women who demonstrate what it looks like to maintain a ‘nice’ home by creating a new status symbol: the perfectly organized, fully stocked pantry.”

The professor also suggested that while minimalist concepts mean less is more, “the new minimalism means more is more, as long as the more is not messy.”

“Consumers don’t need less, they need more: more containers, more labels, more storage space,” she said.

Drenten also claimed that “pantry porn” sets “the aspirational standard for becoming an ideal mom, ideal wife and ideal woman.”

“Pantry porn, as a status symbol, relies on the promise of making daily domestic work easier. But if women are largely responsible for the work required to maintain the perfectly organized pantry, it’s critical to ask: easier for whom?” Drenten concluded.

[Anti Federalist]

The relevant paragraphs from her article:

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. In my research, influencers who produce pantry porn are predominantly white women who demonstrate what it looks like to maintain a “nice” home by creating a new status symbol: the perfectly organized, fully stocked pantry.

There's nothing "vague" about it.

As society deteriorates and devo continues, slovenly habits become more and more common.

But there is nothing vague about it:

Nice neighborhood:



NOT nice neighborhood:

[Snowball]

It was a nice neighborhood when the whites lived there.

Why is that?

hmm

[Anti Federalist]

Nice pantry:



NOT nice pantry

[oyarde]

It is true , I am blatantly sexist . I have a well stcked pantry and the lady of the house is in charge of it . I do my part once dinner is ready . No associate profs are needed here. They bring nothing to the table.

[Brian4Liberty]

The new persecuted, oppressed, victim class: slobs.

[Occam's Banana]

Loyola U. Prof: Neatly Organized Pantries Are Rooted in Racism, Sexism

Is there any topic that you can't somehow twist into a racial issue?

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[TheCount]

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I agree with you, AF and this woman are equally fixated on race and obviously see literally everything in their lives as somehow derived from racial conflict.


Side note, this is an incredibly stupid take for another reason: like everything else on social media, it's mostly fake. You know what's the easiest way to keep a perfect pantry? Never use it. These women are probably the ones doing the least cooking, domestic work, etc., not the most.

There's a phenomenon of garage porn that's exactly the same, shiny stainless steel and unmarred painted floors and all that. None of those guys are swapping out a transmission in their garages.

[69360]

We just kinda jam everything in the cabinets. Ain't nobody got time fo dat. Guess we are woke now.

[Anti Federalist]

I agree with you, AF and this woman are equally fixated on race and obviously see literally everything in their lives as somehow derived from racial conflict.

Horse$#@!.

Pulling the fire alarm when the house is on fire is not a "fixation".

[Okie RP fan]

Do all of you see their pattern?


Anything with ORDER (one definition of order provided below):

"a condition in which each thing is properly disposed with reference to other things and to its purpose; methodical or harmonious arrangement:"

Or put another way, STRUCTURE: "anything composed of parts arranged together in some way; an organization."

...must be tore down.

From dictionary . com


From a Christian perspective, this may be demonic as these forces try to de-render order and structure for humans and watch the chaos unfold (like what is currently happening). This is a direct affront to God's structured word and laws...

From another perspective, this is trying to eradicate anything and everything within the existing super structure of society. This is what happens when we... let the inmates run the prison; the crazies run the asylum; the bullied nerds (I'm not condoning bullying) in positions of power as they seek revenge for their 4 years of torment in high school, the children teach the class, etc.

I think all of those are apt analogies for this upside downing of Western society we're seeing.

I'm sure China is a part (a part...) of it as they seek to supplant the U.S./West as lone hegemon and this may be part of their hidden warfare.

[TheCount]

Horse$#@!.

Pulling the fire alarm when the house is on fire is not a "fixation".

[Anti Federalist]

Snarky Gene Wilder gif

Meh, I imagine there is something important to you in the world as well, that I could mock you about, if you were brave enough to admit it publicly.

Carry on.

[acptulsa]

Meh, I imagine there is something important to you in the world as well, that I could mock you about...

Snark. He's a connoseur of snark.

[Pauls' Revere]

“I’ve noticed an uptick in glamorized, stylized and fully stocked pantries on TikTok and Instagram, giving rise to a content genre I dub ‘pantry porn,'” Drenten wrote.

I have better things to do with my time professor.

[69360]

“I’ve noticed an uptick in glamorized, stylized and fully stocked pantries on TikTok and Instagram, giving rise to a content genre I dub ‘pantry porn,'” Drenten wrote.

I have better things to do with my time professor.

He was searching for "panties" and it autocorrected to "pantries"

[Anti Globalist]

Pretty sure keeping a well stocked and neat kitchen pantry is something a responsible adult does.

[Snowball]

[Anti Federalist]

Pretty sure keeping a well stocked and neat kitchen pantry is something a responsible adult does.

Planning for the future, with logical thought to determine future needs is racist, comrade.

[Occam's Banana]

I agree with you, AF and this woman are equally fixated on race and obviously see literally everything in their lives as somehow derived from racial conflict.

Side note, this is an incredibly stupid take for another reason: like everything else on social media, it's mostly fake. You know what's the easiest way to keep a perfect pantry? Never use it. These women are probably the ones doing the least cooking, domestic work, etc., not the most.

There's a phenomenon of garage porn that's exactly the same, shiny stainless steel and unmarred painted floors and all that. None of those guys are swapping out a transmission in their garages.

I'm inclined to agree with your side note - but even then, such observations apply at most only to those pantry or garage enthusiasts and their ilk who (disingenuously) promote and present themselves publicly as such, and not to those who quietly keep such enthusiasms privately to themselves (a distinction which I am sure would make no difference at all to the Loyola professor, assuming she could even be bothered to make it).

As for "AF and this woman": whatever you may think of AF, he has no political and/or institutional power with which to indulge his "fixat[ions]", and no significant prospects of gaining such power. That is not the case for "this woman" and far too many others like her.

Sneer and snark at stories such as this all you like, but as @RJB succinctly noted in another thread, there will be consequences - and the fixations of "this woman" et al. will be far more consequential than any that random Internet forum posters (such as AF, or you, or I) might dwell upon.

[Occam's Banana]

As for "AF and this woman": whatever you may think of AF, he has no political and/or institutional power with which to indulge his "fixat[ions]", and no significant prospects of gaining such power. That is not the case for "this woman" and far too many others like her.

Sneer and snark at stories such as this all you like, but as @RJB succinctly noted in another thread, there will be consequences - and the fixations of "this woman" et al. will be far more consequential than any that random Internet forum posters (such as AF, or you, or I) might dwell upon.

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These are future lawyers, judges, and politicians who will write laws, decide how they will be enforced and who they will be used against.

In regard to RJB's remark, note especially the last three tweets in the following thread. (Such anecdotes may be amusing today. Tomorrow, though? Maybe not so much ...)

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https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/st...91176513544220


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[A Son of Liberty]

When everything is racist, nothing is racist.

These stories basically bore me at this point. And that's nothing against you, AF. It's just laughable. Imagine - pantries are racist!1!!!1! Somewhere out there, a Brady is jumping a shark...

[Anti Federalist]

When everything is racist, nothing is racist.

These stories basically bore me at this point. And that's nothing against you, AF. It's just laughable. Imagine - pantries are racist!1!!!1! Somewhere out there, a Brady is jumping a shark...

They bore me as well.

But always keep in mind, it's not about "racism" it's about the Marxist mind $#@!...the daily war on objective reality and truth.

[A Son of Liberty]

They bore me as well.

But always keep in mind, it's not about "racism" it's about the Marxist mind $#@!...the daily war on objective reality and truth.

Agreed, which is why accounts like @TheCount are such a joke.

Me, personally? I just wish the bullets would start flying before I get too old...

[Philhelm]

NOT nice neighborhood:

It's the dystopian future, but without all of the cool cyberpunk vibes.

[Brian4Liberty]

Do all of you see their pattern?


Anything with ORDER (one definition of order provided below):

"a condition in which each thing is properly disposed with reference to other things and to its purpose; methodical or harmonious arrangement:"

Or put another way, STRUCTURE: "anything composed of parts arranged together in some way; an organization."

...must be tore down.

From dictionary . com
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I'm sure China is a part (a part...) of it as they seek to supplant the U.S./West as lone hegemon and this may be part of their hidden warfare.

Tear it down. Straight from the Marxist handbook. And China is the role model for their end game. DNC=CCP.

[Brian4Liberty]

Keeping a well stocked and neat kitchen pantry is racist.
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Sigh, if that is the case, I wish my wife was racist...

[Snowball]

Everything is white ... could her racism possibly be more obvious?

[Brian4Liberty]

[Anti Federalist]

Tear it down. Straight from the Marxist handbook. And China is the role model for their end game. DNC=CCP.

Page by page, right out of Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.

Some random examples follow, italics indicate Mao's quote

This is why art is now $#@!:

In the world today all culture, all literature and art belong to definite classes
and are geared to definite political lines. There is in fact no such thing as art
for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or
independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole
proletarian revolutionary cause; they are, as Lenin said, cogs and wheels in
the whole revolutionary machine.

Substitute "class" with "race" or "ethnicity".

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history,
such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. To interpret history
from this viewpoint is historical materialism; standing in opposition to this
viewpoint is historical idealism.

Yes, you are the target of the Struggle Session, and, ultimately, the mass grave.

In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the
whites in the United States it is only the reactionary ruling circles who
oppress the black people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers,
revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the
overwhelming majority of the white people.

And you are an enemy of the new regime.

Our state is a people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and
based on the worker-peasant alliance. What is this dictatorship for? Its first
function is to suppress the reactionary classes and elements and those
exploiters in our country who resist the socialist revolution, to suppress those
who try to wreck our socialist construction, or in other words, to resolve the
internal contradictions between ourselves and the enemy. For instance, to
arrest, try and sentence certain counter-revolutionaries, and to deprive
landlords and bureaucrat-capitalists of their right to vote and their freedom of
speech for a specified period of time - all this comes within the scope of our
dictatorship. To maintain public order and safeguard the interests of the
people, it is likewise necessary to exercise dictatorship over embezzlers,
swindlers, arsonists, murderers, criminal gangs and other scoundrels who
seriously disrupt public order. The second function of this dictatorship is to
protect our country from subversion and possible aggression by external
enemies. In that event, it is the task of this dictatorship to resolve the external
contradiction between ourselves and the enemy. The aim of this dictatorship
is to protect all our people so that they can devote themselves to peaceful
labour and build China into a socialist country with a modern industry,
agriculture, science and culture.

Why the system wants you disarmed.

Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the
barrel of a gun."

Here's what the Marxist media organs mean, when they keep bleating the word "democracy".

Education in democracy must be carried on within the Party so that members
can understand the meaning of democratic life, the meaning of the
relationship between democracy and centralism, and the way in which
democratic centralism should be put into practice. Only in this way can we
really extend democracy within the Party and at the same time avoid ultrademocracy and the laissez-faire which destroys discipline.

I could go on and on...read it for yourself.

https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/mao/...o_Tse-tung.pdf

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