Not happy with the unseemly
At the moment I am crocheting the "Unseamly Sweater" from the Happy Hooker crochet book (which I have previously mentioned on this blog). In the past I have just thought that the author, Debbie Stoller, chose unfortunate and somewhat ridiculous names for her pattern books, which all the same contained great patterns. But recently, in searching the web to see if there were any errata for the Unseamly Sweater pattern, which are supposed to be out there somewhere, I actually discovered that the author holds a Ph.D from Yale University in the psychology of women and is "co-founder, co-owner, and editor-in-chief of the third wave feminist, popular culture magazine Bust" according to Wikipedia. So I had a quick look and the Bust magazine is such a piece of rubbish as I didn't know existed and featured some extremely disturbing material pertaining to abortion. Similarly, in the process of my 'internet research' from Stoller's website, I was sent to other sites that sold all manner of pernicious material. So, I now have rather more serious objections to Debbie Stoller and her deliberately lewd craft pattern books (and at the same time I am puzzled by the connection between feminism and the choice of marketing language that would seem totally degrading to women).