disturbing knits
it is disturbing.
i don’t know what to say.
(pause)
...
(recover)
“hello, i see that you’re knitting. what are you making?”
bored with scarves, i was looking for something different to knit. a hat, or another bunny or something. now i found bunnies and i found hats. but you know what else i found along the way? all sorts of weird s***, that’s what. pardon my language, but that's what it is.
knit breast prostheses. okay, if you’ve had a mastectomy, maybe that’s not so weird. actually that makes sense. okay. but knit condom pouches ("for when you're on-the-go"), vibrator cosies, and "willy-warmers"? useful or weird? can’t decide. oh, wait, actually yes i can: weird. knit (and crocheted, being very careful about typos now) male and female external genitalia? whatever. weird.
what took the cake was the knit uterus and fallopian tubes.
why? why, why, why?
please don’t answer.
that’s what i get for looking for patterns on the internet, i guess.
people are bizarre.
now a prude i may be, but it’s not the subject matter that bothers me. i am a physician, after all. it’s the fact that someone thought to design and knit all these things. i mean, what the heck? i’m much more comfortable with the real things than these weirdo knit versions.
wait, that came out sounding all wrong.
nevermind. there’s no fixing any of this.
“hello, i see that you’re knitting. what are you making?”
posted by CamoBunny @ 11:52 AM
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2 Comments:
I was always under the impression that knitters were just a strange group to begin with. I know that's not necessarily true, it just seemed to me for a time, that the practice was antiquated and perpetuated only by girly types who wanted a less prosaic girly hobby than, say, photography. Like every other human habit, though, it started with the most pragmatic of intentions I'm sure, to make hats and scarves and whatnot, articles of clothing. But, humans become dissatisfied with routine and find new ways to create using the same tools. What practical purpose does a 4" knit bunny serve? While there may be no practical purpose, it certainly serves more than adequately as a heartfelt token of friendship (thanks again, btw). As for willy warmers and uteruses(is that the right plural?), I imagine knitters do it because they can and because we all crave new experiences, forcing us to remove ourselves from what may be habitual. Eventually, all novelty wears off. I'm sure the designers of the willy warmers have already moved on to bigger and stranger projects. I think the same way about the individuals who decided they'd play a saw with a bow, make porn with Barbie and Ken dolls, build monster trucks, go base jumping, build cities out of Legos, castles out of sand and mashed potatoes. We are able to further forge a connection between ourselves and what is around us when we find unique ways of using the same thing, creating reflections of ourselves and our kind in our work. In that sense, maybe you knitters aren't so weird.
Just bored.
here's the thing. like other crafts that have their roots in pragmatism, knitting is an art. and an art medium, i guess. just like you can do all sorts of things with paint and clay, you can do all sorts of things with yarn.
evidently knitting began as a men's craft. because its products could be sold, it was a men's field until cheaper ways of making clothing came along. when was no longer a way of making a living, it became a women's thing.
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