ANST - Re: Ex-Duke Angus-perceptions of SCA

[j'lynn yeates]

On 20 Jun 98, at 16:41, Raymond Catz wrote:

> I just finished a week of training at the National Advocacy Center in
> South Carolina, and had a disturbing experience there. ....

sighhh ... like any *any* group, especially those that have less "centric" orientation, 
we attract a certain cross-section of society - and like *all* similar cross sections 
there is good, bad, and indifferent in the membership ... unfortunately the nature of the 
organization, being out of the norm so to speak becomes suspect because of the 
negative more than others.  bet that the actual statistics would come out in our favor, 
but still those outside would view the group as a whole base on their bias ... have seen 
same in other groups.   unfortunately it's always too easy to scapegoat the things, 
organizations,  and people that are different from you. 

let's see in this ones case, on an ongoing basis, i get the "SCA" bia's, the "biker" 
bias, the "techno-geek" bias, the "pagan / occult" bias, the "long haired hippy freak 
bia's", "un-married, hetero white male" bias ("he must be gay ...") and beginning 
recently detecting the unwarranted "age" bias (a very well preserved 41 ...),  ... quite 
annoying.  pity that the culture is so focused on applying labels and stuffing people / 
things / organizations into small, quantifiable box's ...

'wolf


... When we hunt, we all function with one mind
... - Boingo, Pedestrian Wolves
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