Comments on: Stick to your knitting http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2006/01/21/stick-to-your-knitting/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:33:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Mark Byron http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2006/01/21/stick-to-your-knitting/#comment-6310 Mark Byron Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:21:25 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/?p=2162#comment-6310 That "stick to your knitting" phrase is in my vocabulary for "stick with your specialty" or "don't stick your nose where it doesn't belong"; it wasn't intended as sexist, but what is intended is never considered, especially if it's someone on the left can take as sexist or racist. I recall one Washington DC official got in trouble using the word "niggardly" to describe an inappropriately small responce to an issue. It has nothing to do with "the n word" but the usual suspects got upset anyway. That “stick to your knitting” phrase is in my vocabulary for “stick with your specialty” or “don’t stick your nose where it doesn’t belong”; it wasn’t intended as sexist, but what is intended is never considered, especially if it’s someone on the left can take as sexist or racist.

I recall one Washington DC official got in trouble using the word “niggardly” to describe an inappropriately small responce to an issue. It has nothing to do with “the n word” but the usual suspects got upset anyway.

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