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TheKnittaSeptember 24, 2023
This is why I despise Ravelry. They’d be the first to proclaim they’re “feminists”, too.
These people are pathetic.
proudcatladySeptember 25, 2023
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
TheKnittaSeptember 25, 2023
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.
marciekrSeptember 25, 2023
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.
You may be asking yourself if I was making a subtle jab at Just-Kidding-Rowling with these. Honestly, I didn’t think it was that subtle, but here we are. My original concept for these was actually a sweater that said “Just try to burn this witch”. But when I was telling someone about it they got really weird and asked if I’m still into JK’s work after everything and I was so confused. It turns out she started making slogan merch that said “This witch won’t burn” after she was cancelled and I was LIVID. That slogan slaps and it’s absolute bullshit that she gets to use it! I haven’t kept up with any of her stuff, so I didn’t know about it, but the one thing I know for sure is she didn’t write the slogan because it’s actually very good. 24 hours later I rage designed these socks.
Yeah, right
JKR didn’t think of it, you totally did
Someone who fell for, and has conformed to, the most stupidest mass delusion since, well, the other witch trials
Sorry, but we know which side of the accusing finger you’d be on
“young girls began experiencing fits of screaming, strange bodily contortions, and murmuring incoherent sounds”
Sounds like any one of the TRAs at Let Women Speak
misandreeeSeptember 24, 2023
To be fair, JKR didn't write it or produce the merch, it was a Wild Womyn Workshop design that she liked (and bought?) and tweeted about.
I wouldn't expect handmaidens to fact-check what their fellow gendercultists tell them are trufax before working themselves up into an indignant hipster "I liked it before the Queen of TERFs did!!!"-type of tizzy though, lmao.
Re-enacterfSeptember 25, 2023
The saying goes back a while, doesn't it?
misandreeeSeptember 25, 2023
Probably! I have vague recollections of feminists using it when I was younger, but I don't have a clue as to the originator or when it was first used. As far as I'm aware that's the first time it was used by JKR and put on merch, though. :)
[Deleted]September 24, 2023
the woman who wrote the most successful book series of all time, who is (or was i guess) one of the most respected authors on the planet, was unable to come up with a slogan??
jesus
jadegreenSeptember 25, 2023
The new craze is to say Harry Potter was truly poorly written all along 🙄
There are definitely criticism, that can be vaguely wrapped up into it being frustrating as a fantasy novel but the prose itself is top tier, not just for children's lit but for lit in general
warblerSeptember 24, 2023
They can't even get their messaging right. So they're in favour of witch hunts, as long as the right people are targeted? Idiotic. But I'm feeling inspired to knit some radfem socks.
PickettyWitchSeptember 24, 2023
Oh, the irony--witches are TERFs, my dear! Or at least the serious ones are. Such a shame to see knitting talents wasted on this.
HelenaHandbasketSeptember 24, 2023
I miss Ravelry.....back when it was focused on knitting, and not being handmaidens......
SomeoneElseSeptember 24, 2023
Sorry, but they’re the same thing. It’s always just a word to hide that you hate women.
I’m a knitter and whoever created this should be ashamed.
pegasusknightSeptember 24, 2023
Such a waste of talent.
sciurus [OP]September 24, 2023
For sure - they have a lot of great patterns, which I will not be purchasing now.
We seriously need to get some GC friendly business list going…I know there’s TERFs or just sane women (and men) out there who knit just as well or better!
RusticTroglodyteSeptember 28, 2023
Right?? They're very good. I'm a crocheter and I cannot even imagine what would go into making intricate socks like this. They look like they're from the store, they're that good
MafdetSeptember 24, 2023
Oh yes, much fighting the patriarchy when knitting socks with burn terfs on it.
proudcatladySeptember 25, 2023
Oh god why did it have to be such a stunning design???
I’m planning to try to get in a knitting club after an upcoming location change. Hopefully it’s filled with based older women instead of the cringe knitters of my generation
SomeoneElseSeptember 25, 2023
…I’m looking at it and thinking I could alter it. I do knit. I could change the words.
Do you want to try with me?
RusticTroglodyteSeptember 28, 2023
I would love to see this. How do you even begin to make something like this??
proudcatladySeptember 25, 2023
If you come up with the pattern I’d happily make some in solidarity! I’m rather new to Fair Isle and socks (only done one of each so far) so altering the pattern is a little beyond me at this point.
sciurus [OP]September 24, 2023
Lovely blog post from the designer: https://archive.ph/1BSRd
[Deleted]September 24, 2023
I quit my knitting club after they started a knit along to make... packers.
It's like everyone around me is going crazy. Can't we just make blankets for the local animal shelter like in the good old days?
That is child sexual abuse. I'm a mandated reporter, like a lot of women via health care, teaching, scouts, religious training (Sunday School, Hewbrew School, etc.) and it would be my legal responsibility to turn in someone who was creating sexual objects for use near a child's genitals.
I cannot imagine those would be sanitary.
Oh FFS I didn't even think of that!!! Sick!
I’m shuddering just imagining it. I’ve sweated in sweaters I’ve knitted and it takes a LONG shower to feel clean after that. Can’t imagine it drenched in the nether regions
That is BONKERS!!!
Or the 'knitted knockers' for breast cancer survivors, or teddy bears for children in Africa, or hats for preemies in the NICU, or any one of the long-running, well-established, sane knitting charity projects. How can someone spend hours knitting a fake penis and testes for a woman to shove in her pants and not think "maybe this is a bad idea"??
Oh my god, I found several crochet patterns for packers and I was like "are you serious"