Comments on: Picking A Knit

By: Katherine

Katherine — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I’m a patriarchy-blamer who lurks on your blog and also knits. I think the correlation is purely coincidental: most knitters are women, and most patriarchy-blamers are women, therefore there is some overlap. Love the blog, by the way.

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I don’t knit, but I think that whatever the cause, the link between knitting and patriarchy blaming may be quite old. Think Madame DuFarge.

Fictional, you say? Are you sure about that?

By: judy

judy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

i am a long-time knitter and patriarchy blamer, too. i found your blog link on a knitting blog (i think it was, ‘and she knits, too’). there are a few knitting blogs with side topics of politics, etc.
radical knitters, maybe?

By: Mandos

Mandos — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I like the fact that you like puns. I like puns too. Puns are the highest form of humour.

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I can knit, but only because I had a grandmother who was a fabulous practitioner of said art. I remember at high school that one of our art classes included a video about Kaffe Fassett, a dudely and esteemed knitter. It seemed par for the bloody course that as soon as a man took up knitting it become highly esteemed, and he was lauded for his design skills and his appreciation of colour and texture.

I always imagined that the feminist knitters were reappropriating a traditionally female art-form resigned to musty “craft” status because of its propensity to be carried out by vagina-bearers. Also, all that sitting around together knitting and chatting is quite sisterly. Like Ruth Six-Feet-Under’s knitting group.

By: rhondda

rhondda — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I always think of the woman in A Tale of Two Cities who knitted through the revolution in France.

By: Noelle

Noelle — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I think Katherine nailed it.

By: Twisty

Twisty — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Mandos Mandos Mandos. I am going to write a script that will automatically append “Mandos Mandos Mandos” whenever I reply to one of your comments.

Anyway, I didn’t know they had puns in Canada!

By: Twisty

Twisty — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

most knitters are women, and most patriarchy-blamers are women, therefore there is some overlap

I won’t argue with your basic assertion, but there has to be more to it. By your reasoning, this blog should likewise be teeming with stewardesses, nurses, and ballerinas.

By: Darsana

Darsana — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Same as Judy, I found you through a knitter’s site–and I’m grateful for a patriachy-blaming blog to read while I knit away!