Had to un-friend a knitter on Facebook

I am hoping to one day make my living in the fiber world. So I am always studying other people's work, reading their blogs and trying to learn all that I can. I admire the work of Annie Modesitt, read her blog, and "friended" her on Facebook and Twitter. (I have since discontinued Twitter, I don't like it). I soon learned, however, that in order to read her posts about her latest project, which is taking medieval pieces and re-interpreting them as knitted items, I was going to have to wade through a whole lot of liberal socialist crap that doesn't even make sense half the time. I perservered, ignored the posts that made me want to scream and just played nice. But then, she offended me beyond tolerance when she posted the so-called "survey" that 77% of Oklahoma high school graduates did not know who the first president was, and I could no longer be silent. But I was nice. I suggested politely that I wasn't sure that that was a real survey, and if it was, then possibly they only polled the one problem school district that we have that has a 50% dropout rate. I really said it like that, very nice. SHE DELETED MY POST!

I looked her up on Twitter, thinking that if she lived in California I would suggest that she wouldn't like being compared to Jay Leno's "Jaywalking" morons just because she lived in California, then discovered that her location is Tehran! Iran! She doesn't even live in this country, yet I'm wading through all her stupid opinions of how this country should be to get to the meager knitting content. I started to post something on her wall to that effect, then realized that she isn't interested in anyone's opinion but her own, and she also isn't interested in facts. I know she gloats over the number of followers that she has on Twitter, so I struck back in the only dignified way that I could. I "unfriended" her, on Twitter, on Facebook, and on Ravelry. I'm sure my one insignificant stat will not even be a blip on her radar, but I feel better.

I still like her knitting work, but she should keep her offensive political opinions to herself.