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Mrs Miller's avatar

This is a great post. I'm with you. Also I cannot stand the word kiddo anymore. It's gone the way of the rainbow.

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That TERF Owl's avatar

Thank you. I agree, "kiddo" sounds creepy to me now. I remember in the Matt Walsh film What Is A Woman? the blue haired pediatric gender doctor kept using it.

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Mrs Miller's avatar

Michelle forcier yes! She ruined the word.

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That TERF Owl's avatar

You're good with names. I usually call her the Chicken Lady. ;)

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Mrs Miller's avatar

Haha! 🐓

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Gerda Ho's avatar

Yes, “Can a chicken cry?” The lady who with a straight face said”Some women have penises “

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Katrina Gulliver's avatar

What's insane is that Knitty patterns are FREE. The designer wasn't even making money off it.

Here's another one - the pattern's up but the designer apologizes. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/diagon-alley-jumper

"NOTE ON JKR and Harry Potter: As this pattern is named after the Harry Potter universe, I have to make it clear that I support trans rights. I do NOT agree with JKRs violent views.

As a result of this I will no longer be taking any inspiration from her work."

What's amusing is that Ravelry user base is heavy on the kind of people who used to put their Harry Potter house in their bio.

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That TERF Owl's avatar

“Her violent views”

These people are unserious. She said nothing like that, meanwhile some psycho just got sentenced to (nothing basically, as it’s the UK), for death threats to her.

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Gerda Ho's avatar

This is really barf inducing! They grovel at the “god of trans “

, trying to outdo each other with their “ kindness “!

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That TERF Owl's avatar

I know Blocked and Reported did a show on insane woke knitting people, and there are so many examples of it. It’s sad, really, because crafting is relaxing and it’s supposed to get your mind off other things (at least when you’re actually knitting). They seem to put a lot of time into policing users for transgressions. I use the site less because of it.

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Katrina Gulliver's avatar

I wrote about it for Reason when they blocked Trump supporters. They are crazy. I still have an account but don’t buy patterns through it.

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Ruby Mancini's avatar

wow! …. a new kind of crazy, no?

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That TERF Owl's avatar

I don't know. It certainly LOOKS crazy! :)

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Katrina Gulliver's avatar

Not new. Ravelry has been full of zealots for a while

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KB Mar's avatar

Crocheter here and yes, I noticed wackiness in some of my groups and have pretty much stepped away. The sane mods shut down the woke idiots quickly but a lot did not. They seemed to embrace their outrage and mob mentality just grew. Absolutely weird

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That TERF Owl's avatar

It is weird.

I crochet, too. More than knitting lately!

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ThinkPieceOfPie's avatar

I looked at the sweater. Unimaginable harm could be caused by it, well, I think unimaginable is the operative word.

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Stephanie Loomis's avatar

And "folx" isn't a word. Utterly ridiculous.

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Stephanie Loomis's avatar

a SWEATER? Good grief.

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AmonPark's avatar

This reminds me of when Knitty used to have good patterns and I used to look forward to a new edition dropping. Now Rav means the really innovative stuff ends up as a paid pattern there.

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Thia's avatar

This stuff goes back to the 90’s, but once you see it you can’t unsee it. Great article!

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That TERF Owl's avatar

I think that's what stuck with me, and why I didn't really know what to think about it at first (hence my file for screenshots called "Who is this helping?"... it seemed to arbitrary and pointless).

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Thia's avatar

Yeah, it is arbitrary and pointless and MEAN! I find these people loathsome bullies. This is an excellent example of what’s wrong with “woke” or whatever we call it.

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Ken Macko's avatar

I guess the problem is that it’s black and white not rainbow.

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That TERF Owl's avatar

Glad you enjoyed!

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