John sent me a link to this Guardian essay on how “alternative knitters” are killing feminism and the punk movement. He also somehow ties it into WWKIP Day (as if the concept has anything to do with rebellion or alternative culture). The writer also proudly repeats his oh-so-witty observation that “the concept of radical knitting is as absurd as radical dusting or radical toilet cleaning,” and he predicts that he’ll get frothing hate mail from “knitting Nazis.” Quite frankly, I just can’t work up the rage to bother. It’s hard to get angry over what is so transparently a troll. So knitters of the world, please don’t take the bait. This is obviously a sad, humorless little man who deserves neither our ire, attention, or lovely homemade knit goods.

Although… if my knitting *did* in somehow contribute to the disappearance from silly “punk rawk” kids and floppy-haired emo teens from the streets of world, I wouldn’t complain. KNITTERS FOR THE WIN.