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Lately, I've been teaching people how to repair their clothing! At least one guy has come to the conclusion that hand sewing is actually punk af, because knowing how to fix your shit is Sticking It To The Man.
'Thread Repair' is definitely less grandma-esque than 'sewing' or 'needle and stitch'.
Some youtuber somewhere is probably recording an introduction,
'Welcome to my thread repair lab. This is where we pull, push, and stretch fabric to the limit....'
It writes itself! Theres a whole youtube channel in this!
The need to de-centre women from traditionally female technologies, crafts and occupations in order to appeal and cater to men's interests, is kinda upsetting though.
I'm really torn on it because on one hand, if calling it Thread Repair could get more people (especially men) to participate, that's a good thing! I also just like the sound of thread repair XD On the other hand... maybe men should learn to be interested in things that aren't personally catered to their tiny baby feelings. Get over it and fix your damn socks.
I dunno. I'm also eternally torn between "men created toxic masculinity and they need to fix it themselves, not expect women to do it for them" and "men need the women in their lives to help them escape toxic masculinity because we're outside it (for the most part) and everyone needs help sometimes"
Yeah, interesting for me that you picked up the masculinity still.
In that comment I actually considered that because I had written something like 'inject masculinity' into it. But as I wrote, I thought its not just young men, but women as well, much like yourself. So I tried to de-masculine it and make it about dropping the old person connotations.
I suppose I's not very successful in that. I think its the faux quote at the end that just reads so much like every male teenfluencer ever. 😆
Yeah, fuck all the female dominated histories of all the various textile cultures around the world, someone on the internet told me it was men who probably did it first, and women obviously just copied them! So if men want to get into textiles again now they have every right to push out any reminder of women ever being involved!
Just to be clear, the above paragraph is sarcasm. Exasperated but unsurprised, sarcasm.
On the other hand, the SciShow episode about knitting was so upsettingly wrong that Hank Green took it down, so I'm not particularly inclined to trust him on this topic. He angered the entire fiber art community by talking about how nobody understood knitting until scientists looked at it, which is actually pretty sexist.
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Good for them for realizing the truth, because It *IS* punk af.
And also awesome.