A great big thanks to Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the Yarn Harlot, for pointing this out to her readers in her blog. Here However, it makes me question why I need to read about the words “rape” and “victim” being banned in a courtroom in Nebraska on a knitting blog (not that knitting blogs are nonesense, [...]
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Oh Those Words
Posted in News, Philosophy on July 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Recreating the Feminist Mystique One Stitch at a Time
Posted in Knitting, Philosophy on July 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve become a knitter. I brought my knitting to the class I teach one day. As one of my students walks in, he looks at me and says, “You know how to knit? Dude, you’re old.” Sigh, yeah, probably. However, his image of a knitter is probably either a Donna Reed-type housewife or a grandmother. [...]