Run And Tell That (Alec Satin, Ravelry, and Why I Can’t Stop Giggling)
There are two things (minimum) you don’t step to if you want to survive in the fiber arts world:
- Another fiber artist’s tools without permission.
- Ravelry.
If you choose not to click yet you guessed that a cis (imma guess) het white guy felt the need to step to the largest fiber arts website on earth to admonish them posting a tiny rainbow flag with the scroll over text “We love you.” Give yourself a gold star.
If you further guessed that said guy doesn’t appear to understand what words mean given that he thinks that respecting and valuing the lives of other humans somehow equates to “losing” and that respecting and valuing the lives of other humans is both “divisive” and “offensive,” give yourself two gold stars. Or like, a gold start and some rum. Whatever is a good extra treat for you.
If, finally, you guessed that his justification for all of this was his understanding of his holy book, you’ve probably been dealing with people like him for a while.
For real, now is a perfectly fine time to reach for the rum.
He also claimed that adding a tiny rainbow was somehow “defacing,” the logo.
This, by the way, is what he’s freaking out about…
HIS REACTION IS PURE COMEDY GOLD PEOPLE!
And you know what the best part is? I don’t even have to drag him.
Because as I mentioned previously, he broke one of the very few rules of the fiber arts community. Other people are going to do that for me. And it is going to be so good, so petty, so whip smart, and unforgiving, I may never stop giggling.
And that’s good because I am busy mourning nearly 50 dead members of my community and hugging my girlfriend and trying to function as a Black, bi, femme, person in a world that hates me for a not small number of reasons, not one of which includes anything I did wrong other than being born.
I’m glad to see other people do the work. I’m proud to be a part of a community that will not accept that kind of bullshit in their name. I’m also sad, that this conversation even needs to happen.
Because 49 people died and over 50 more were wounded and this guy, this fucking guy had to make it about his fucking feelings and not about their lives and the fact that they had and continue to have, value.
That’s the core of this.
Some cis, het, Christian dude got all up in his feeling because the Ravelry Powers That Be reacted to an attack on human beings with compassion and basic human decency.
Somehow that is a problem for Mr. Satin.
Christianity. I think he’s doing it wrong.
What a Witch 
❤
Thank you.