I agree. For example, if I were to say that I like to crochet for example, I feel like most people would think this were just like something cute or whatever; but, in some way, this would somehow be demonstrating that women were somehow childish or less intelligent that they are inclined to enjoy activities like crochet.
However, crochet is actually very difficult mathematically. You have a stitch that creates a repeating pattern that requires 8 stitches. So you create a foundation chain in a multiple of eight in order to create the sequence. That's great. Simple enough because 8 times 8 is 64, so you need 64 stitches to create the pattern where you will not end up with remaining stitches that will hang out and look odd.
But, what if you want to combine that stitch pattern with a stitch pattern that needs 11 foundation stitches to create the pattern. How many multiples of 8 would need so that if you combined the two stitches together into one project, it will be even. Let's say you do this and you make a blanket that is 66 by 90 inches and you want to create a border. The stitch count for the border requires 3 foundation stitches to create the repeating pattern. How many foundation stitches do you need in order to create a border around the perimeter of the blanket?
Most fiber arts like knitting and crochet has been like this for hundreds and hundreds of years. Clothes are more difficult because you have change stitch counts and reduce in places to shape the garment to the body. However, it is often seen as simple and requiring little intelligence because it is done by women.
Historically, is there any real difference between a seamstress and a carpenter except one is done by a woman and the other is done by a man. Attitudes like this remain in society and I hear them every time someone tries to make the argument that women should enter fields that are compensated more as though that were the problem. That is not the problem. The problem is that the work that women has always done is still considered to require less intelligence than the work a man is required to do.
Some men have extremes views on this. When I was younger, my father used to tell me that everything women did like cooking or cleaning or sewing, when men did do the same work, they always did a better job. He would say that men would even make better chef's, housekeepers, and seamstresses than women as though working were only a way to entertain the simple mind of a woman. Maybe this is why I am the way I am and feel a little rebellious toward the idea that I have to do something different than women have classically done in order to be recognized and respected fairly for my work.