I am not sure it's fair to imply the statement "I am a maker" is equivalent to "I am only a maker; it is the whole of my identity" any more than the same would

I am not sure it's fair to imply the statement "I am a maker" is equivalent to "I am only a maker; it is the whole of my identity" any more than the same would be true for "I am a dancer" or "I am a cyclist". Even for people for whom it is very important, I am not sure it amounts to some sort of rejection of care or support for others (isn't part of the romance of the maker movement that people support each other, rather than relying on whatever is handed down from corporations?) Certainly one obvious criticism of identifying making things as a masculine activity in modern society is that the problem is excluding women and girls from these activities, starting early in the educational process, and reinforcing it with films, books, etc. that downplay making in favor of caring. In essence, this article cements that traditional division, by saying 'making is male, caring is female' which doesn't seem like a promising route to increase either encouraging more caring from men and boys, or more making from women and girls. As to whether we "need to make more things" at all, we clearly do and always will - not just for the sake of making them, but because we need clothes, homes, tools, etc. and those, I would suggest, can always be made better.