Other Blog Round-Up

I have so many things to tell you all: how we've been snowed in since Sunday; how I'm a terrible mother; the saga of my car door; the rest of Thanksgiving; my review of Greywalker; the state of various knitting projects. But, honestly, I'm tired and not feeling terribly witty, so all you get today is a discussion of things I saw on other blogs.

Teresa over at Making Light started out by linking to a few of Franklin's funny posts, and the discussion soon fragmented into bad crochet patterns, good crochet patterns, knitting needles as weapons, spinning silk, Irish dancing, Vegas showgirls, and the TSA. The upshot of it all is that I think I need to learn nalbinding.

The Yarn Harlot has a funny story that got a lot less funny as I read through the comments. I'm amazed at how much anger is directed at this woman who is clearly ill. Yes, the story was funny. Stephanie knows how to tell 'em. But would people be saying the things they're saying in the comments if the woman had been young and skinny? They're punishing her not only for being mentally unbalanced, but also for having the temerity to announce to the world that she has (gasp!) a body, and doesn't plan to hide it despite being too old/too fat/too far from the norm.

I admit, I've made fun of people; right here on this very blog, even. But I don't think I've done so with the sort of mean-spiritedness that I'm seeing over there in the comments. It seems to me that the woman needs psychiatric help, and the story is far more sad, than funny. Maybe I'm asking too much, but shouldn't knitters be a more tolerant bunch?

*edit* I'm not saying that Stephanie's initial post was cruel; it really had a feel of "here's something strange that happened to me." What got to me was how quickly the comments section turned into a lynch mob.