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white_hart) wrote2018-08-05 01:19 pm
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People are terrible
Seen on the Internet in the last 24 hours:
1. On a blog post introducing a new knitting design: “I love this pattern, but I wish you’d designed it for a different weight of yarn as I don’t have enough fingering weight.”
2. On the same post, in response to the blogger mentioning a recent change in her appearance, multiple people assuming pregnancy and one person saying “congratulations, but please don’t flood us with baby knitting patterns now”. (I assumed radical hairstyle change, which turns out to be the actual case. Fortunately the blogger is childfree by choice.)
(ETA: and now someone has commented on the post with the new hair asking if she donated her long hair to Locks of Love. Why would a U.K.-based blogger be donating her hair to a US charity, ffs?)
3. On a post using a word that means different things in different versions of English, a number of people from the country of the poster’s birth (but not the one they currently reside in) popping up in comments to make snippy remarks about how Word means X in their country, but if the poster meant Y...
Some days I think the human race deserves its inevitable doom, though I wish I didn’t have to be part of it.
1. On a blog post introducing a new knitting design: “I love this pattern, but I wish you’d designed it for a different weight of yarn as I don’t have enough fingering weight.”
2. On the same post, in response to the blogger mentioning a recent change in her appearance, multiple people assuming pregnancy and one person saying “congratulations, but please don’t flood us with baby knitting patterns now”. (I assumed radical hairstyle change, which turns out to be the actual case. Fortunately the blogger is childfree by choice.)
(ETA: and now someone has commented on the post with the new hair asking if she donated her long hair to Locks of Love. Why would a U.K.-based blogger be donating her hair to a US charity, ffs?)
3. On a post using a word that means different things in different versions of English, a number of people from the country of the poster’s birth (but not the one they currently reside in) popping up in comments to make snippy remarks about how Word means X in their country, but if the poster meant Y...
Some days I think the human race deserves its inevitable doom, though I wish I didn’t have to be part of it.
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I find it weird both that that’s what people assumed, and how much the assumers are doubling down on their right to make assumptions about people and act on them without thinking about how that will affect the people they’re assuming about.
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People! I got quite a lot of vocal misgendering on my way back from the monastery. Saturday night drunks and Reception children lack social filters. And internet commenters, it would seem.
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I don't remember mine ever being long enough to plait and wrap round my head, and at its longest it came about halfway between my shoulder and my elbow, so I assumed longer than that, maybe elbow-length? Which seems pretty long to me but mine has been short for 14 years and was bobbed for years before that so my perception is probably skewed.
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