Loyola professor claims organized pantries are rooted in ‘racist and sexist’ social structures
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A Loyola University professor claims that videos of predominantly White women showing off their pantries is rooted in a history of classism, racism and sexism.
While minimalist designs used to represent an anti-consumption mindset of using less and buying less, the "new minimalism," according to Drenten, means "more is more," so long as it is not dirty or cluttered. Drenten claims society believes disorganization calls into a question a person's responsibility and respectability. (iStock) Vintage illustration of a fashionable housewife standing in front of her new pink kitchen, 1957. Screen print. (Photo by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images) Mother cracking an egg into bowl with her daughter in kitchen. Woman and little girl preparing food in kitchen. (iStock) Nikolas Lanum is an associate editor for Fox News Digital.
Historically, Drenten says that tidiness is intertwined with status and a person’s messiness often breeds assumptions about a person’s capacity to be responsible and respectable.