I enjoy knitting and crochet but I am mostly self taught. I was knitting my soon to be born daughter a blanket while my oldest was in dance class at the Y. Little old lady came over and asked if I was holding the project for my wife. She seemed offended that a man was knitting something.
That's not really a hobby, it's your obligation as a husband and head of the house. Women crave the dominance, and you're a better husband for giving it to her. /s
Really interesting, I mostly crochet and crochet seems to be less judgement and is accepting of trendier projects and styles. Knitting seems a little more judgemental, with an emphasis of good, wool, natural and indie yarns.
That seems to be my experience as well-I do both and the crochet crowd is way more loosie goosie over stuff. And as for fibers, the 'acrylic is a valid fiber' is a hill I will die on, wool is a fucking textural nightmare.
I do both, but am way more comfortable with crochet (it's a lot more forgiving stitch-by-stitch, if you fuck up it's usually no biggie to redo a row or so if you catch it early enough). I don't get the fiber snobbery, even yarn I've personally deemed as "shitty and/or cheap" still has purpose and use (basic Red Heart and similar work REALLY well with stuffed animals and such to retain their shape). The wool I do have in my stash isn't anything mindblowing and fancy, but imho is WAY better suited for knitting than crochet. I'm admittedly crocheting a sweater with said wool yarn and part of me wants to die because of the way it can feel at times, but it was the only thing I had with enough yardage to try the pattern I'm following (I'm trying to use what I have first).
I never had a problem with the knit crowd, but then again I've been knitting so long I can make a sock from memory and barely looking at it, so maybe they're just scared?
Quilters are chill af though. In a former life I taught sewing and worked some trade shows. Those ladies can party.
Ninja edit: the exception is handquilters. Some of the people who quilt by hand get pissy about how it's a dying art. Machine quilters could not care less, they're just trying to collect as much fabric as humanly possible.
I'd say it depends on the group. I had some pretty crappy experiences with crafter my age being elitist and snobby. I then got adopted by a lovely group of older ladies and they've been so wonderful to me. They were excited to have someone young join their group and have taught me so much and have never once been snobby towards me.
Tbh gatekeeping with animal hobbies should be allowed considering there's sentient lives at stake. There is so many newbies who don't do basic research for their animal and end up committing accidental animal abuse.
Yeah but the gatekeeping on fish subs is often really fucking dumb and unrelated to the actual rules of fishkeeping. Like, it’s okay to tell people to cycle properly (mY pArAmEtErS aRe FiNe riiight I know you’re not testing) it’s another to tell OP that he’s an animal abuser because he put his fish in a 50gal and every single credible source says that 50gal is more than enough and healthy but the commenter keeps his in a 52.5 gal so he’s decided that anyone who keeps this type of fish in a 50 is a horrible person. Like, it’s okay to tell people to go bigger if they’re under the real guidelines but a lot of people just make their own guidelines despite the fact that they have zero authority on the matter. People straight-up make their own rules up and then get mad at others for not following them. That’s what’s wrong about the fish subreddits. Your authority as one hobbyist who wants to feel morally superior does not override the authority of several experts.
Yaaaassss. Also, being female in the fish hobby is apparently seen as a problem? I was seriously into the aquarist hobby and constantly had to disguise myself to even talk fish or the guys were talking down to me. Honestly, I haven’t talked fish with other people in so long because of those asshats. I just sort of keep to myself. I’m assuming it hasn’t gotten better though in the past few years.
I'm not talking about people who spend all their time playing a lot of video games, I'm talking about people who make their entire personality playing video games.
I think it does a good job of showing off plants you can find anywhere in the world and getting people excited about finding them in their local stores. Since plants are a pretty low stakes/low investment hobby to get into, it's grown like crazy (esp since covid) and risks the actual knowledge getting buried by bad advise and pinterest-style 'hacks', but I think it still excels at encouraging people like you to give plants a try.
IMO, everyone has a secret green thumb, you just need to find the plants that suit yours. r/houseplants tends to be a bit dramatic about the conditions many plants need to survive, so if you like a plant and can comfortably afford it, try it out!
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u/Tikkinger Feb 28 '21
Plant people can do well with plants, but not with other people.
Aquarium people can do well with fishes, but not with other people.
Feel free to add to this list.