FLAKE ALERT: Loyola Professor Claims ‘Cleanliness’ Is ‘Racist’; ‘Pantry porn is classist, racist and sexist’: Chicago professor slams social media trend of showing off perfectly organized pantries and blames likes of Kardashian-Jenner family for pushing ‘modern-day status symbol’

Nolte: Loyola Professor Claims ‘Cleanliness’ Is ‘Racist’:

A Loyola University associate professor is telling people that living a clean life is racist.

Her agenda is blatantly obvious, toxic, and, yes, racist:

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.

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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.

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.” https://t.co/lefyN12Te2

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) March 17, 2023

As the story’s writer Jonathan Turley points out, “There was a time when cleanliness was viewed as ‘next to godliness.’ That clearly has changed. It is now apparently next to white supremacy.”

But why?

Why would someone float the absurd idea that “cleanliness” is racist?

Why would anyone suggest that a virtue such as “cleanliness” exposes the clean person or the person promoting cleanliness as a racist? —>READ MORE HERE

‘Pantry porn is classist, racist and sexist’: Chicago professor slams social media trend of showing off perfectly organized pantries and blames likes of Kardashian-Jenner family for pushing ‘modern-day status symbol’:

The recent social media trend of showing off spacious, bright, clean and perfectly organized pantries is rooted in racist, classist and sexist social structures, according to a professor from Chicago.

Associate Professor of Marketing Jenna Drenten said she took note of a recent uptick in what she branded ‘pantry porn’ – when women show off their fully stocked, methodically styled home supply closets.

In particular, Drenten singles out ultra-influencer celebrities like the Kardashians for proliferating the trend as they show their millions of followers their pristine storage rooms.

The Kardashians, however, are merely bolstering design elements, according to Drenten, that have long been intertwined with status.

While beautiful, neat, airy kitchens and homes have long been associated with wealth and status, dirty and unkept kitchens and houses have indicated that their owners are not responsible enough and do not have the means to take care of them.

Furthermore, women, it is implied, will be the ones taking care of the elaborate pantries and the things that are cooked with their abundance of ingredients – tying them, in a way that the modern woman perhaps rejects, to the domestic sphere. —>READ MORE HERE

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