a.k.a. mexicanthrope

Thumb - Pointer - Middle

Pointer - Middle -Ring

Something else?/Nuance

My toes/Results

I see so many people start with their pointer finger and that's so hard for me to do???? Nuance is of course like if you're missing fingers or there's some other common way I missed!

I swear more in my native language

I swear more in a language I learned later

I swear about an equal amount in all languages I speak.

I don't swear

Monolingual button.

(Asking this because I basically never swear in my first language but swear a lot in English)

There are only 2 types of stitches. All others are variations on these types

You count as you knit. 136. You count your stitches again to be sure. 136. One more time to be extra sure. 142. You count again -

You do the heel turn perfectly. The gusset is a mess though

You are knitting in the round with many small, pointy needles. You stab yourself

You are knitting in the round with the normal amount of needles. You stab yourself

There are only 2 types of stitches

None of the actors shown knitting are knitting correctly

None of the products shown are actually knitted

Actually does modern Hollywood know what knitting is?

You see a cute pattern. It is crochet

You have a great idea and check Ravelry to find a pattern. There is none. You must make the pattern

There are only 2 types of stitches

"Can you make me x?"

"My (relative) used to knit!"

"What are you, an old lady?"

The tiny baby blanket used a mile of yarn

You are knitting. Your active yarn is wet. You have a cat. The cat is cute and innocent of all crimes

There are only 2 types of stitches

You have a yarn bag. You get a second yarn bag. You get a third yarn bag. All of your bags now have yarn in them

You have yarn at your superstore. That yarn feels Bad

You have a room full of yarn. You start a new project. You do not have The Yarn needed

- "the term is gendered" (it's not, and feminine equivalents were sometimes created specifically for the purpose)

- "they didn't actually do things as knights" (who didn't? The Hatchet women fought the Moors. A few other Orders had women as masters of arms. Both martial and formal examples)

...and a few other reasons that come down to "I don't like imagining my manly men in steel had women in their ranks, girls have cooties".

And the reason I say this is because recently, Wikipedia updated their page on "Knight", specifically adding a section about women with the title of knighthood, and what function they performed. And I know: "Wikipedia is not an academic source"--but every academic institution will accept the sources and articles used to back up wikipages, which confirm what has been said.

I saw this and needed to answer.

The gendered versions of 'knight' come from Romance languages, and literally just change the word to fit the gender of the subject (within a binary). So it isn't like English, where a female knight has always been a 'Dame', but, using Spain as an example, the word for Knight in Spanish is 'Cabellero'. This is the default masculine.

The feminine word for Knight? 'Cabellera'.

Similarly in French: "Chevalier" becomes "Chevaliére".

In Italian, "Cavaliere" becomes "Cavaliera".

Outside of Romance languages, "knight" is just a title for a social rank, so even the English Dame is by default a knight by rank, but may not have the title (although not impossible).

Just a note about translations and ... well, patriarchal bullshit.

When you say "Hatchet women fought the Moors" I was like "hey, that seems to be part of my local history, how have I never heard about it?", and when I googled it ... I actually have heard about it, it's the Orden del Hacha from Catalonia (Orde de l'Atxa in the original Catalan). But ... there's something odd going on. Why the fuck in English they have translated like "Order or the hatchet"? You know, in Spanish and Catalan there's no really a difference between "Axe" and "Hatchet": There's a single word for them, "Hacha/Atxa". But in English, there's a difference. A Hatchet is a hand axe, pretty much the smallest one you can think of:

So It's pretty remarkable that whoever translated the name of the order to english first decided to use "Hatchet" and not "Axe". I'm pretty sure if this was a order of men warriors the name would have been pretty different. Specially when THIS was their coat of arms:

Sooooo close! And yet so far.

The spanish word for knight is "caballero" as in caballo = horse plus the suffix -ero which is person who. So like man who horses. And as such, a woman who horses would be "caballera".

"Cabellera" means "head of hair". "Cabello" means hair. Not horse.

Yes

No

Not my phone, but another electronic device

Not my phone/an electronic device, but something else

It’s actually “laying down,” not “lying down”