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Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online

🧵 To all people who are read as female by their environment: If you are looking for a completely reliable camouflage for activities where no one should suspect that you are using your brain – embroider pretty pictures! Crochet granny squares!

Yesterday, I had a debate about mining and long lasting petroleum contamination with some very intelligent people, which I then cut short. The 70+ men treated me like I was stupid, and even laughed patronisingly at my arguments while I crocheted. "Oh yes,

Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online

🧵 there are always old people in villages who reject all progress" one said at my address.
I knew this in theory, but it suddenly dawned on me how much I am now seen as a nice old lady who crochets and probably looks back on a life full of grannies.
I hate myself when I have to show them that they're not talking to a mindless crochet hook. Just one sentence about my years of journalistic research about petroleum history. Suddenly, that deep breath, the realisation that I am not a

Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online

🧵 crochet hook, but a sharp needle. Or a pair of scissors that cuts the debate short.

I am so very tired of this! 🤢
But maybe I should take that as my cue: embroider cute flowers and prick away such guys. Crochet granny squares and cut things up. 😈

I do love #craftivism. I didn't know that my age urges me to do it. Even #grannies can be politics!

#crafts #embroidery #crochet #handicrafts #granny