This week, a professor at Loyola University in Chicago claimed that organized pantries in people’s homes are rooted in “racism and sexism.”
Dr. Jenna Drenten, an associate professor of marketing at Loyola University, made the remarks in a piece for the Conversation, where she slammed the trend of people posting videos of their styled, organized pantries on the platform TikTok
According to Drenton, maintaining a clean, organized home equates to “sexist” and “racist” behavior, because most people who post “pantry porn” are white women (via the Conversation):
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.
Perhaps it’s not surprising that pantry porn found its foothold during the COVID-19 pandemic, when shortages in the supply chain surged. Keeping stuff on hand became a symbol of resilience for those with the money and space to do so. This allure of strategic stockpiling is evident in other collector subcultures like doomsday preppers and extreme couponers.
And, Drenton pointed out that it reinforces sexist stereotypes that keeping the pantry organized is a “woman’s job:”
Pay no attention jenna drenten, she’s just starving for her 15 minutes of fame. Ignore her and she will go away.
GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!
where do these people come from?
The greed and ego of human beings is beyond belief. Some will do and say ANYTHING for money…
Come on people, give me a break. Things are getting utterly ridiculous. Where did common sense go?
The whole point of all this weirdness is to make you feel off balance- that :gee, maybe there IS something wrong about me…” What you are seeing is unrelenting Maoism. Everything bad being called WHITE is just like Mao calling everything “old” and the Society calling everything bad- Kulak. This isn’t about you- this is about your kids. They will grow up being told that they are bad, racist, greedy capitalists- so they will go home and report YOU. Stop laughing and start buying ammo. NOW.
She has as much cognative material as Bye-done.