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Thursday, January 21, 2010

How to Propagate a Stereotype (1968 Edition)

1. Design a charming floral block in crochet.

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2. Make it the dominant motif in your pattern for a bedspread.

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3. Publish it with instructions sized only for a single bed.

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4. Style the photograph to look like Room 148 at Shady Acres Community Home for the Terminally Lonely and Criminally Aged.

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5. Name it after a religious movement most associated in the public imagination with never, ever having sex.

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6. Wonder why the rising "Me" generation is not flocking to purchase your yarn.

Why?