Whaaat? Women are KNITTING? IN PUBS?
'Cause the all caps really helps.
When this Daily Mail article popped up on the Twitterverse, I was immediately suspicious. After all, it is the Daily Mail.
One sentence in and I almost stopped. A Sex and the City reference? Someone definitely didn't do their research on this one.
By paragraph three, I was ready to throw something. That was before the horrid picture even came into view.
Though I'm not a representative of the Stitch and Bitch group mentioned in the article, I am a member. So I thought I'd point out:
1. We don't just knit in pubs. We knit everywhere. Tube, park, museum, bus, cafe, bakery...
2. We aren't just women. Men knit too, peeps.
3. We don't just knit. We crochet and spin, dye and yarnstorm.
4. The word sisterhood makes us gag.
5. Middle class? Here I thought we didn't have any class.
6. There is no mention of cake in this article. We don't want knitting with cocktails. We want knitting with cocktails, tea, cake, and chattiness.
You would think that a reporter writing about a group (which charges no membership or attendance fees) might show up to a meeting before writing such an article. Or perhaps contact several knitters or the organisers for a lovely quote. Alas, no. Research is not the forte of modern journalists, it would seem. But that's a whole other story.
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