Let's go play on the gender gym | The McGill Tribune

Let's go play on the gender gym
The McGill Tribune - September 26 2006

I remember what a taunt it used to be to be told that you throw like a girl. A girl obviously can't throw very well. Of course we all now realize that, as a girl, it should be a compliment to be told that you throw like a girl. How terribly anti-feminist to think otherwise, right?

Along with this reasoning came a wave of other reclamations-a process of recoding all that is deemed "women's' work" as nothing less than superb.

And so a murmur of clicking started to spread across the country, as knitting needles frenzied at Stitch 'n' Bitch parties. Women took up knitting as a return to their roots and enjoyed the attendant fuzzy feeling they got from knowing that, woven into their woolies, was their own personal form of feminism. While I hope never to knit a line in my life, I understand the feminist agenda. [more]