Another knitting story link

Knitting...what can't it do? In Indiana a new group is using the needlecraft as an option for the unemployed to deal with stress.

What I find most interesting in the story is that the learner pictured and interviewed is a man, yet his gender is unremarked upon in the story. I think almost every story I've seen that mentions men knitting explains away why someone with XY chromosomes would do something traditionally associated with women. Here it doesn't even merit a raised eyebrow or qualifying statement.

That's progress, right?