come_to_think

There is a story about a famous professor of psychology (since he denied it, I will not mention his name here) that he was annoyed by a female student who sat in the front row of his class and knitted. He retaliated by working into one of his lectures a casual mention that knitting was a symbolic form of masturbation. She raised her hand and said "Professor ------, when I masturbate, I masturbate, and when I knit, I knit". She returned to her knitting.