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This designer knits sweaters for Marvel superheroes:
madgastronomer:
madgastronomer:
knitpool:
How do I get this guy’s job? :)
This bugged me the first time I saw this, but now it REALLY bugs me.
Women knitters outnumber men knitters like 99 to 1. (OK, maybe an exaggeration, but at least 40 or 50 to 1.) There are TONS of geeky women knitters out there. Why did Marvel hire a dude to knit for them over all the incredible women out there? Even for an activity that’s stereotypically feminine, they hire a man.
And then I actually went and read it, and I saw this:
“I’m a big ‘Project Runway’ fan, so for me it’s about that unconventional challenge,” Bennett says. “You know, give me some plastic bags and let me knit something out of it.”
Dammit, dude, THAT’S ALREADY AN ENTIRE FUCKING THING. It’s called PLARN (plastic yarn). People cut up plastic grocery bags and turn them into yarn and knit or crochet stuff with it. Reusable grocery bags (which is awesomely meta), bedrolls and sleeping mats, all-weather things, hats, purses, shoes, pretty clothes, Christmas tree angels, Easter baskets… This is not radical. There are hundreds of hours of YouTube videos on this shit. Here, have a Pinterest board.
STOP PRETENDING TO BE A GODDAMN MAVERICK OUTSIDE-THE-BOX THINKER FOR DOING SHIT TONS OF OTHER PEOPLE ALREADY DO.
And Marvel, goddamn it, go find a TRULY radical knitter to do awesome superhero shit. Shit. You don’t even know what truly awesome knitting looks like.
Oh, goddammit. Now I’ve looked at the sweaters. They will fit precisely one (1) shape of man (but at least comes in five sizes), and will look horrible on anyone who is NOT ALREADY shaped like a carrot/Dorito/triangle-food-of-choice. They’re not particularly interesting, although they do use very nice yarn and patterns that actually require significant skill (stranded colorwork, cable knits, designing the patterns to begin with). And they start at $1,095.00. And go up to $1,495.00.
Let’s say that again. They start at Eleven. Hundred. Dollars. For something that, yes, takes skill to make, and yes, the creator should be compensated appropriately for the time and skill that went into it. But how many women do you think could get away with charging that much for something many grannies can make? (Not because what grannies do is automatically easy! Because we devalue what they do.)
This is SO MUCH white male fucking privilege.
I am SO FUCKING PISSED.
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This designer knits sweaters for Marvel superheroes:
madgastronomer:
madgastronomer:
knitpool:
How do I get this guy’s job? :)
This bugged me the first time I saw this, but now it REALLY bugs me.
Women knitters outnumber men knitters like 99 to 1. (OK, maybe an exaggeration, but at least 40 or 50 to 1.) There are TONS of geeky women knitters out there. Why did Marvel hire a dude to knit for them over all the incredible women out there? Even for an activity that’s stereotypically feminine, they hire a man.
And then I actually went and read it, and I saw this:
“I’m a big ‘Project Runway’ fan, so for me it’s about that unconventional challenge,” Bennett says. “You know, give me some plastic bags and let me knit something out of it.”
Dammit, dude, THAT’S ALREADY AN ENTIRE FUCKING THING. It’s called PLARN (plastic yarn). People cut up plastic grocery bags and turn them into yarn and knit or crochet stuff with it. Reusable grocery bags (which is awesomely meta), bedrolls and sleeping mats, all-weather things, hats, purses, shoes, pretty clothes, Christmas tree angels, Easter baskets… This is not radical. There are hundreds of hours of YouTube videos on this shit. Here, have a Pinterest board.
STOP PRETENDING TO BE A GODDAMN MAVERICK OUTSIDE-THE-BOX THINKER FOR DOING SHIT TONS OF OTHER PEOPLE ALREADY DO.
And Marvel, goddamn it, go find a TRULY radical knitter to do awesome superhero shit. Shit. You don’t even know what truly awesome knitting looks like.
Oh, goddammit. Now I’ve looked at the sweaters. They will fit precisely one (1) shape of man (but at least comes in five sizes), and will look horrible on anyone who is NOT ALREADY shaped like a carrot/Dorito/triangle-food-of-choice. They’re not particularly interesting, although they do use very nice yarn and patterns that actually require significant skill (stranded colorwork, cable knits, designing the patterns to begin with). And they start at $1,095.00. And go up to $1,495.00.
Let’s say that again. They start at Eleven. Hundred. Dollars. For something that, yes, takes skill to make, and yes, the creator should be compensated appropriately for the time and skill that went into it. But how many women do you think could get away with charging that much for something many grannies can make? (Not because what grannies do is automatically easy! Because we devalue what they do.)
This is SO MUCH white male fucking privilege.
I am SO FUCKING PISSED.
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