Cooking has become a moral issue, according to the authors of a book published this month. In Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won’t Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It, the sociologists argue the pressure our society puts on women and mothers to cook doesn’t fit with the realities of busy schedules and small kitchens.

The scene of mother laying out a meal as the kids scramble to the table is also kind of racist and sexist; it’s an “image of white middle class families” that “doesn’t make room for other types of people,” according to the authors.