How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral
May 9, 2022 10:13 AM Subscribe
This post was deleted for the following reason: Transphobic content in website -- loup
Wooooooooooooooooooooow.
That entire website is just a steaming pile of thinly disguised transphobia with several added dashes of homophobia and sexism and by dashes I mean like they just hid those particular giant turds a little better than their not at all hidden transphobia.
posted by FritoKAL at 10:24 AM on May 9, 2022 [5 favorites]
That entire website is just a steaming pile of thinly disguised transphobia with several added dashes of homophobia and sexism and by dashes I mean like they just hid those particular giant turds a little better than their not at all hidden transphobia.
posted by FritoKAL at 10:24 AM on May 9, 2022 [5 favorites]
"People are being too hard on Richard Dawkins" was not the piss I expected in my cereal this morning but thanks/no thanks BBC.
posted by Tesseractive at 10:28 AM on May 9, 2022
posted by Tesseractive at 10:28 AM on May 9, 2022
There's plenty of racism too. I'm not even an instagram knitter but my mom is so I've paid attention to what's going on. The author uses the word "realityland" to say that's where he is in relation to black knitter and yarn manufacturers standing up to racism. The author uses the term "strident ani-racists" as a bad thing. Idk wtf this is but it's very incorrect and bad.
posted by shmurley at 10:30 AM on May 9, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by shmurley at 10:30 AM on May 9, 2022 [3 favorites]
Obviously my skimming of the article is missing something. I see blogs, vlogs, Instagram mentioned, but I don't see any particular website singled out. theodolite, FritoKAL, what website is this you are talking about that I apparently missed? Maybe it is the Instagram site (I don't do Instagram).
posted by eye of newt at 10:30 AM on May 9, 2022
posted by eye of newt at 10:30 AM on May 9, 2022
Awful reactionary article from an awful reactionary site. Boo, hiss, flag.
posted by Horkus at 10:31 AM on May 9, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by Horkus at 10:31 AM on May 9, 2022 [3 favorites]
Eye of newt, the entire unherd website is a turd. If you click through, you can see a number of articles on how gender confusion is destroying feminism.
posted by FritoKAL at 10:31 AM on May 9, 2022
posted by FritoKAL at 10:31 AM on May 9, 2022
Oh, you are talking about the article website itself. I understand now.
posted by eye of newt at 10:33 AM on May 9, 2022
posted by eye of newt at 10:33 AM on May 9, 2022
I kind of knew where this was going, despite the weak attempt at both-sidesing towards the beginning, so when I got to the part where he used James Lindsay as a reference, I was unsurprised, and ready to check out anyway.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 10:34 AM on May 9, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 10:34 AM on May 9, 2022 [1 favorite]
Regards unherd.com - now that you bring it up I recall that my Brexit-y Mum kept bringing it up last time she visited, sigh, so yeah... the link was just from hacker news, figured the MeFites would have some good takes on the article itself though which just discusses the Radio 4 piece.
posted by zeoslap at 10:40 AM on May 9, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by zeoslap at 10:40 AM on May 9, 2022 [1 favorite]
Was anyone ever worried the BBC wasn't Conservative enough?
posted by parmanparman at 10:46 AM on May 9, 2022
posted by parmanparman at 10:46 AM on May 9, 2022
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posted by theodolite at 10:17 AM on May 9, 2022 [8 favorites]