IIRC, way way back at the beginning of the whole "cancel culture" thing, before covid was even a twinkle in a bureaucrat's eye, one of the first internet communities to get a lot of press for booting out members for specious political reasons was... an online knitting forum.
I wonder if it has to do with the sort of people who get into that, vs. other crafts? Or at least, who get into the "taking classes and posting on internet forums" side of the craft, as opposed to just doing it?
As a sometime practitioner of crochet and embroidery (but not knitting-- counted grid-patterns are so *boring*), maybe that's my internal bias talking ;)
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Re: What is it with the knitting community!!?
Date: 2022-11-16 06:49 pm (UTC)I wonder if it has to do with the sort of people who get into that, vs. other crafts? Or at least, who get into the "taking classes and posting on internet forums" side of the craft, as opposed to just doing it?
As a sometime practitioner of crochet and embroidery (but not knitting-- counted grid-patterns are so *boring*), maybe that's my internal bias talking ;)