Professor Denounces Problematic Pantry Porn

The Smithsonian Institution has revealed that self-reliance, cohesive nuclear families, “objective, rational linear thinking,” hard work, personal responsibility, and delayed gratification are white supremacist. We can now add to that list keeping a tidy pantry.

Barks Jenna Drenten, an associate professor at Loyola University Chicago:

As someone who studies digital consumer culture, 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.”

These presentable pantries are a cause for concern:

Storing spices in coordinated glass jars and color coordinating dozens of sprinkles containers may seem trivial. But tidiness is tangled up with status, and messiness is loaded with assumptions about personal responsibility and respectability.

Personal responsibility and respectability are ominous terms, from the woke viewpoint.

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.

Classist, racist, and sexist: the trifecta of political unorthodoxy. When utopia has been achieved, the FBI will conduct door-to-door pantry checks to make sure no extremists commit oppression by keeping an orderly pantry.

On a tip from Barry A.

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