Dear Sadie,

Having read Sara Mosle's takedown of Etsy.com on Slate's "double x,", I have to profess myself quite surprised with the specious conclusions drawn by the author. [Megan translation: For fuck's sake, Sadie, did you read this shit on double x about Esty?]

Dear Megan,

I have to agree. But what I also found problematic was the implicit condescension of the argument; there's a definite sense that these educated women of means are wasting their time, and that the work they do, if not renumerative, can't possibly be fulfilling in any other sense. [Sadie translation: I got this awesome spyglass necklace at an Etsy craft fair over the weekend.]

at no point does Mosle touch on the buyers on Etsy, which might well track with the gendered selling against which Mosle inveighs — or not, in which case, it turns the entire concept of Etsy being a ghetto-izing influence on its head. [Megan translation: Did she look up the meaning of the word "ghetto?" Do any other research?]