Peer Fear (was: Re: Peerage Stuff Re: Why I Hate Fencin
Jeanne C. Stapleton
jstaplet at adm.law.du.edu
Wed Dec 18 12:55:50 PST 1996
> I used to be pretty nervous around peers and nobility. However, bit
> by bit most of my friends BECAME peers and nobility, so I'm getting
> over it! :) I had a five year layout in the SCA due to mundanities,
> and when I came back, many of my old friends had become peers,
> especially laurels. I kinda get a kick out of seeing some of their
> stuff and saying, "Geeze, I taught her how to do that!"
>
This became the case with me, as well. anyone else move through
the SCA with the "graduating class" method? In the set at the
college
where I first became really active (although I was already a member),
we had the person who got the first peerage and the person who's
probably gotten the last peerage (although never say never!); I was
the first (and only thus far) to achieve a Crown; we had about seven
people become kingdom officers at one time or another.
For a while, it seemed that whenever I'd leave an area, a whole wave
of my friends would receive peerages. This was definitely not a case
of sucking up on either side; everyone likes to feel that their
freinds are the best, the cleverest, the most effective (or else why
would we be friends with them?). Well, in my case, I really feel
there's justification for this attitude! :-) I've made friends with
little clusters of people who weren't peers when I first knew them,
but got there.
> Now, I only get nervous around peers/nobility that I don't know, and
> that's more a fear of strangers than the fact that they are peers.
> (I think).
>
Could be. I wonder at the number of shy people in the sCa. I'm not
really shy myself, so it's always a difficult phenomenon to
understand
why people come to a group activity when people make them...what?
Nervous? Scared? Suspicious? Uncomfortable?
Countess Berengaria de Montfort de Carcassonne, OP
Barony of Caerthe
Kingdom of the Outlands
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