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This is why I despise Ravelry. They’d be the first to proclaim they’re “feminists”, too.
These people are pathetic.
It’s a damn shame because it’s an excellent idea for a website but I can’t bring myself to make an account because of this, and even otherwise a MAN should not be running a site for what is historically a woman’s craft. The glass elevator makes me sick and I do not support men in fiber arts or any other historically women’s art form. FOH scrotes
THIS. The men that are on there (designers and knitters) are absolutely fawned over by many women, too, and they’re first to barge into spaces and self-promote. They make me sick.
Actually, Casey's wife was running the site. He was helping in the background and handled the tech stuff. I loved the site until he transitioned and started going off on people.