"wow i like that sweater you’re knitting" "IT’S NOT A SWEATER IT’S A BRO COZY CAN’T YOU SEE I’M A MAN??"

Do you guys no how much shit a man would get from men AND women for straight up knitting something? Hell. They made that a joke in the movie: Demolition Man. For fuck’s sake. A guy can’t do something like that without losing a lot of respect, he doesn’t have a fucking choice, that is just how society will perceive him. His masculinity isn’t fragile because he makes it that way. It is fragile because that is how society sees his masculinity. If guys didn’t have to care what other people thought of them, and if there were no repercussions for knitting, they probably would knit more. But there are repercussions for that. Fuck. I was afraid of having a sewing kit in my dorm room because I KNEW people would mock me for it. Someone that looks like a guy and isn’t out as gay can’t own that kind of shit without being the laughing stock of everyone around them, unless they get rid of all of that fucking gender enforcing thoughts that have been ingrained in them since birth.

Thank you.

The exact thing you describe happened to a friend of mine at college a few weeks ago. We were on lunch break and he was sitting knitting while basically everyone else had their phones out playing candy crush or whatever. Anyway a couple of people stared at him, one of the younger girls asked him what he was doing (she is 17 and apparently has never seen anyone knitting before and didn’t know what it was - astounding I know!) and someone outright stated ‘knitting isn’t very manly you know’. And then later on a couple of people came to me (because they know I am friends with him) and asked me if he is gay - purely on the basis that he was knitting and that isn’t ‘masculine’ and that therefore he must be gay - because obviously they are ignorant enough to think that if a bloke does something that’s not traditionally masculine then he must automatically be gay. Idiots. I of course chastised them in my normal manner and left them with no doubt of my opinion :)