This question was posed by Peter on his blog and although we briefly discussed this in class, no definite conclusion had been come to. Some people expressed their view that because "Stitch Bitch" was about all writers that it was created for all writers. I think that this is quite far from the truth. I don't think that it would be out of bounds to say that this essay was written with a complex verbiage and syntax. Even as a collegiate student I had a hard time deciphering what this article meant. Considering that 20% of the United States population is under the age of 14 (and I believe that we have already established that these people are writers; they text, they facebook, they communicate) "Stitch Bitch" could not be understood by this demographic. Furthermore, 30% of students will drop out of the american education system before they even earn a high school degree and the proportion of the United States population who will graduate from college is less than 33%. Generally, I don't think that this article could be understood by anyone without a college education, and maybe not even then. For this reason I just don't see how it is possible for "Stitch Bitch" to be created for reading by all writers.
With that being said, the original question comes back into play. Who is it meant for? I would say that this essay was meant to be used in a college English classroom to discuss writing. It is written by a professor originally as a lecture and now we find ourselves reading it in our own writing class as a means for discussing how we write. I don't think that "Stitch Bitch" is meant for anyone more than people receiving an education.
http://quietcolor.com/media/mp3/2009_10/help-im-alive.mp3
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