Men who "didn't think it would be this hard"
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Obviously this does not apply to all, or even most men in the sewing community! But I've noticed, particularly in more technical sewing communities, a lot of shock (mostly coming from men) about how difficult sewing is. Just recently on the pattern drafting subreddit there was a post about how a guy who wanted to start his own brand was really surprised and frustrated by how hard pattern drafting was. I bought a sewing machine on FB marketplace from a different guy who ALSO wanted to start his own clothing brand and similarly just 'couldn't figure out how to use it' and didn't expect it to be so hard.
I've been sewing my whole life, and it comes across as really bizarre (and maybe inadvertently kind of misogynistic?) to expect drafting clothes patterns, tailoring, or even just using a sewing machine and working with different fabrics and techniques to be something you could pick up relatively quickly. There's nothing wrong with being new and struggling with something!! But the hubris kind of comes across as devaluing the labor of craft/sewing/creating clothing.