NY Times does a Positive Pocket Knife Article!

Erm...what? :confused:

Yeah...that's what I was wondering when I saw it. What does zionism have to do with liking or disliking knives? Actually, I'm asking rhetorically as an answer may lead to this thread being closed if it get political.
 
Interesting such a zionistic and left wing rag did a fairly positive article on cutlery; that knife of Mr. Barker's is beautiful.
One does wonder the intention of the author... It almost seems like the writer wanted to make it seem cool while at the same time making those mentioned in the piece look like grown children.
It's almost as if they are trying to present those in the piece as thos trying to hold onto manliness by virtue of having an inanimate object, but manhood is not tied to stuff. Perhaps this is something greater than a NY Times writer can understand.

Perhaps this is something greater than you can understand, but the NYTimes is not a Zionist newspaper. Perhaps you meant ... Jew? Lose that terminology.
 
Yeah...that's what I was wondering when I saw it. What does zionism have to do with liking or disliking knives? Actually, I'm asking rhetorically as an answer may lead to this thread being closed if it get political.

Not to worry. It isn't the thread that would get shut down.
 
Makes me sad to read stories where the men are clearly struggling to find some aspect of traditional manliness to cling onto in today's feminized society.
No wonder skinny hipster guys wanna dress like lumberjacks instead of unisex office workers.
 
Makes me sad to read stories where the men are clearly struggling to find some aspect of traditional manliness to cling onto in today's feminized society.

Did you know that complaint goes back hundreds of years?
Promoting shooting as a way to keep manly virtue alive in the face of urbanization was done in Canada back in the day. :)

Plato probably said something about it too (lack of manliness, not shooting ;)), I wouldn't be surprised to find out. :D
 
So the human race has been getting less manly for hundreds of years??
Seriously tho, that sounds like an awesome thing for Canada to do, as shooting guns is pretty manly.
 
So the human race has been getting less manly for hundreds of years??
Seriously tho, that sounds like an awesome thing for Canada to do, as shooting guns is pretty manly.

I thought it was pretty neat too. :)
Read about it in the History of Crime course I was a teaching assistant for.
 
At least hipsters are now good for something. Wonderful article, the more enthusiasts in the hobby the better it is for all. And congrats to everydaycarry for getting a national spotlight.
 
I guess there is a plus side...

If I'm now considered a flamboyant hipster for carrying a knife, that's better than people thinking I'm "some guy with a weapon"...

Exactly right. The target demographic of the NYT is the most likely to have had negative preconceived notions about knife carry in the first place. Better to be seen as a harmless man-baby by those people than a criminal waiting to happen.
 
I think overall the article was positive, even if it was watered down, and a bit patronizing.
 
Gentlemen, I was referring to a political ideology rather frequent in the Times, not intending to stir up strife or make this a political thread. Neither was the use of the word intended in an inflammatory manner.

Esav, no, you mistake what was said. There's more than one type of zionist (for instance, there's a large contingency of Christian zionists. Since matters of theology aren't the topic of the thread here, no sense into getting into that. They are not Jews in the sense you mean; there are also political zionists with no affiliation to Jew or Gentile, bond or free.), and I say this without bias against any particular person, whatever they might believe. I don't care if a man is a zionist or moslem or whatever, but certianly object to the ideology. One could say the same of Cold Steel's president, a self-admitted braggart whose shirt he would give off his back, but many in spite of the advertising buy his products.

Now, moving back to the post, it is interesting that the NY Times would post anything about cutlery at all without some agenda one direction or another. My point is that what was the reason this rag would publish this article unless they had a bias one way or another; this is certianly not the friendliest publication to cutlery.
However, a quasi-positive article did have a beautiful damascus lock back, worthy the read no matter one's thoughts on other matters, wouldn't we agree?

Good day all.
 
Gentlemen, I was referring to a political ideology rather frequent in the Times, not intending to stir up strife or make this a political thread. Neither was the use of the word intended in an inflammatory manner.

Esav, no, you mistake what was said. There's more than one type of zionist (for instance, there's a large contingency of Christian zionists. Since matters of theology aren't the topic of the thread here, no sense into getting into that. They are not Jews in the sense you mean; there are also political zionists with no affiliation to Jew or Gentile, bond or free.), and I say this without bias against any particular person, whatever they might believe. I don't care if a man is a zionist or moslem or whatever, but certianly object to the ideology. One could say the same of Cold Steel's president, a self-admitted braggart whose shirt he would give off his back, but many in spite of the advertising buy his products.

Now, moving back to the post, it is interesting that the NY Times would post anything about cutlery at all without some agenda one direction or another. My point is that what was the reason this rag would publish this article unless they had a bias one way or another; this is certianly not the friendliest publication to cutlery.
However, a quasi-positive article did have a beautiful damascus lock back, worthy the read no matter one's thoughts on other matters, wouldn't we agree?

Good day all.

Given you other posts what you meant was very clear. If I were you I wouldn't try to justify it any further.
 
The Village Voice published an interesting article a few months ago, describing the absurdity of New York City's crackdown on folding knives. Police and prosecutors are using an outdated State restriction on 'gravity knives' -- with a vague, almost all-encompassing interpretation -- to include any knife that can be flicked or flipped open (thumbstuds, holes, axis-locks, ball-bearing locks, weak detents, even an accessible pivot screw: all are fair game for police interpretation of a gravity knife). I know it's old news on BF, but it's another example of mainstream media that takes the side of knife-users.

Police are encouraged to make arrests, and anyone busted with a Spyderco or Benchmade might end up in jail. If they have a criminal record, it's immediately bumped up to a felony... even when the knives are purchased legally in stores that sell them without a problem. That makes it dangerous for New Yorkers to carry almost any pocket-knife, so I also found it weird that the NY Times article only made one brief warning about local laws... but it does have an international readership.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/how-a-50s-era-new-york-knife-law-has-landed-thousands-in-jail-6662589#page-all
 
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