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I'm Crocheting A Protest To Mail To The USOC

OK, so I flung my response out there into the blogosphere as well, following up on what Laurie's already well-written, making my point to help represent crocheters in this and link back to CLF. The funnel must be working, 'cuz my stats show a lot of clicks. You can read my take on things here - I'm afraid I wasn't super nice and I'd like to point out, knitting once was an Olympic event: http://aberrantcrochet.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/its-jocks-vs-the-ge.... Stupidness. But I also see that lemonade could come from lemons. And I think it's double awesome Laurie that your post got picked up nationally like that. Crochet - represent!

My main thing now is I do plan to crochet something to mail to the USOC. Just like broccoli sent to the White House. They've disparaged hand-makers, not just with this letter, but through former stunts as well. So I personally feel like making a statement in a more direct way. I was trying to decide between shipping them a granny square or a crochet bacon strip. I was leaning bacon, just 'cuz. Anyone else?

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CroPro Comment by Julia Chambers on June 21, 2012 at 6:56pm: And now posted to Blog Her as well. ;D

CroPro Comment by Julia Chambers on June 21, 2012 at 7:01pm: sigh....Another followup "apology": ""As a follow-up to our previous statement on this subject, we would again like to apologize to the members of the Ravelry community. While we stand by our obligation to protect the marks and terms associated with the Olympic and Paralympic Movements in the United States, we sincerely regret the use of insensitive terms in relation to the actions of a group that was clearly not intending to denigrate or disrespect the Olympic Movement. We hope you’ll accept this apology and continue to support the Olympic Games."

Do these people not know how to use the English language? Because all they just said is that they know we didn't intend to, but they aren't saying we didn't. :P