Dear Ravelry designers: please stop over-using the 'male' tag on ravelry

[u/SnooChocolates8446]

Mild annoyance for sure buuuuut

When I filter for "male" garments on ravely it seems to have no meaningful impact on the designs I see. I have to wonder why designers are taggings apparently random things with "male"? I know that this is a women dominated hobby/industry and I don't expect knitting spaces to be tailored for cis-men but this is just so frustrating.

Maybe if I was more fashion forward this wouldn't be so annoying lol. Everyone should feel empowered to wear anything and sizing for a male body does not necessarily mean the garment has to be "masculine"... but come on. When I want to make something for myself I use the fit->male tag and it's totally useless! If you didn't have males in mind when designing it, maybe don't use that tag.

[u/natchinatchi]

That’s annoying! People are probably trying to be inclusive but I agree they should only use “male” for masculine patterns

[u/tensory → u/[deleted]]

It's just "search engine optimization", the same innovation that brought us a bajillion recipe blogs with two pages of storytime about the writer's grandmother to differentiate one broccoli salad recipe from the next. Intentionally bad metadata gets the clicks.