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A (Knitted) Uterus For Every Congressman!
If the war on women one (male) politician after another taking the podium to explain why Women Shalt Not Have Access to Birth Control because Sex Ought Only To Be Had For the Purposes of Procreation is irking, enraging and generally disgusting you, heres a way to take those angry feelings and put them to good creative, crafty use. How about knitting a uterus? Or crocheting one, if youd rather?
Government Free VJJ is, in the words of Jezebel, a project with the aim of having ladies knit or crochet lovely versions of uteruses (plus cervixes and vulvas) and mail them to their representatives, so that those who have not been endowed with such female organs can have their very own in red or hot pink or paler hues. You can use one of these patterns or make up your own; make sure to fill out this form so the project can keep track of which politician is getting which hand-knit female organs.
Some may say this Snatchel Project is all a waste of yarn that could be used for making sweet little baby booties or some such. But the womens work of making things with fibers knitting, crocheting, spinning, weaving, sewing has a long history as a way for women to express themselves and get a powerful message across.
Penelope tricked her many suitors not to press her to marry as long as she was weaving a shroud for Laeetes, father of her long-away husband, Odysseus; she wove the shroud by day and unwound it at night until her craftiness was revealed.
A little craftiness can say a lot more than you might think
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/a-knitted-uterus-for-every-congressman.html#ixzz1poCF0HIe
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)but I can't get the link to open. Can you help me out??
dmr
(28,351 posts)If not you'll need to download one. Here's some to chose from: https://www.google.com/search?q=pdf+reader&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US fficial&client=firefox-a
I just use Adobe.
Hope this helps.
niyad
(113,714 posts)dmr
(28,351 posts)else I had open. That's what you get when you have too much open. You end up looking like an idiot.
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)the intertubes last night here. They were not downloading at all, but did today. I am laughing my butt off at the pictures! Can't wait to get started. I hooted at "tammy tampon", "sammy sperm", and "sally sanitary napkin".
HOOTING HERE!! Thanks for the patterns.
niyad
(113,714 posts)dmr
(28,351 posts)at the thought of Dave Camp getting a womb or two!
I'm in. I have some very pretty colors in which to choose, too.
This one cracks me up. I just might do something similar or even find a teardrop to this heartbreaking & idiotic & dangerous bullcrap.
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=217760.msg2342830#msg2342830
Hell, I might even paper mache one for 'one of the teabagging guys' in the House. I'll hold a raffle in my kitchen to see who'll win it.
I might be laughing, but I'm mad as hell.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)niyad
(113,714 posts)"laughter through tears is my favourite emotion" (dolly parton's character in "steel magnolias"
I would change it to "laughter through red-hot anger. . ."
niyad
(113,714 posts)lots of fabric, too, in some pretty colours, and lots of lace. . .
too bad a latch hook piece would take a bit longer. . .