When Bitches Gather
Kathrine Jebsen Moore explores the high-passion minefield of intersectional knitting:
She was even accused of being a neo-Nazi because she enjoys drinking Guinness.
It’s the tale of a yarn enthusiast who mentions her excitement about the prospect of visiting India, a life-long dream. And who is promptly scolded by the woke knitting community – a thing that exists, apparently – for being a “coloniser,” for harming “non-white people,” and for being “racist.” A struggle session ensues.
For many readers, the world of knitting activism may be unfamiliar terrain; but the dynamics on display will, I think, be quite familiar.
Update, via the comments:
Having read the piece, TimT and others note, “This is awful behaviour.”
Well, yes. The pieties of the woke-lings are nakedly ill-intended. It’s a malevolent little drama. But then, being woke is the latest excuse for archetypal mean girl behaviour, which may explain why “social justice” posturing attracts so many women. It’s the fashionable, statusful way to be an utter bitch. Though instead of picking on someone for having unfashionable shoes or the wrong kind of bag, they’ve seized on someone’s enthusiasm, their moment of joy, and done their damnedest to sour it.
As we’ve seen many times, woke psychology is not what it pretends. Not even close.
Update 2:
Paula adds, “I read the Quillette article and all the original post and still can’t see anything offensive. What are these people on?”
Viewed objectively, there isn’t anything to be offended by. Ms Templer describes her excitement and says that for her, a young woman with little experience of global travel, the opportunity to fly halfway around the planet is “like being offered a seat on a flight to Mars.” That’s it.
But for those inclined to recreational grievance-seeking, that’s the appeal. The less basis there is for indignation, the more pleasurable the scolding becomes. It’s a twisted power dynamic, a form of gaslighting. And for a certain kind of person, making someone anxious and confused, and then making them prostrate themselves in public – when there’s no reason to do so – is the sweetest triumph.
It’s a game for budding sociopaths.
Update 3:
And via Darleen, of course there’s more.
Daniel, you’ve misread the article.
No, I haven’t.
Camilla, of the Reparations Hour, is the sacked employee who started the witch hunt.
Yes. And the owners hired her. The article indicates a number of red flags on Camilla’s part that should have given the owners pause long before it reached the point of sacking, yet they continured to promote her.
As I said, they knowingly hired an SJW wokeling into a position of middle management. That shouldn’t be a business-ending mistake, but increasingly it is, and as the Bosun’s Mate pointed out the owners are not entirely innocent of participating in such behaviour themselves.
“I noticed that this same business was quite ready, willing, able, and did play that same virtue-signaling game (opting not to do a large amount of business with) another Portland small business that came within the crosshairs of the perpetually offended coterie of malcontents.”
Boatswain’s Mate, I think I saw the same comment and it’s hard to know what they’re talking about – if they are actually talking about anything. What is the ‘other’ Portland small business referred to and what did Portland rentamobs get offended by?
TimT, the relevant comment is this one. Quote:
“However I remember another similar social justice mob action a couple years ago against a new restaurant that opened up called Saffron Colonial. The SJWs were outraged that the owner was celebrating “colonialism”. They organized a boycott and picketed the restaurant.
Ristretto Roasters was one of the local purveyors that severed ties with Saffron Colonial as a result. They stopped selling Saffron Colonial’s baked goods at their coffee shops.”
That’s it, Alex.
Eventually, la terreur comes for thee, M. Robespierre.
That’s it, Alex.
The words bully and lunch money come to mind.
The words bully and lunch money come to mind.
I’m reminded of the first season (“series” to y’all ovair) episode of The Simpsons titled “Bart the General,” where Bart (with help) has to take on school bully Nelson and his young henchkids. Once Nelson is defeated and subdued, the “follow any leader” henchkids immediately denounce Nelson and, in Nuerenburg-style, claim they were “only following orders.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_General
The “go along to get along” types that play footsie with the committed (and boy, do they need to be) SJW mobster Maolings need to learn, and learn fast, that doing fealty to the ravenous appetites of the mob is no guarantee that they won’t be next because someone in their employ wore a white t-shirt to work one day, wholly unaware that that had been determined 90 minutes ago to be a grievous and heinous act of oppression and colonization and that must be punished without regard to cost or mercy.
That shouldn’t be a business-ending mistake, but increasingly it is,…
The “go along to get along” types that play footsie with the committed (and boy, do they need to be) SJW mobster Maolings need to learn, and learn fast, that doing fealty to the ravenous appetites of the mob is no guarantee that they won’t be next because someone in their employ wore a white t-shirt to work one day, wholly unaware that that had been determined 90 minutes ago to be a grievous and heinous act of oppression and colonization and that must be punished without regard to cost or mercy.
So paying the Danegeld doesn’t rid one of the Dane?! Who’da thunk it?