[Ansteorra] Telling someone that what they are doing is notperiod

[Elizabeth Ellis]

Well how rude was that!  I've got to tell you though, just because somebody gets a peerage does not mean they are automatically cured of being a social misfit. When stuff like this happens, just chalk it up to the infiltrating power of the goofball factor. I do hope your lady will take this into account and eventually come back.
   
  I've had a very small number of people be rude to me over the years over the issue of what's period and what's not.  Relative to this thread, one of the funnier times was when a woman I'd never met insisted on playing period when I tried to be nice and introduce us to each other.  When I asked her about herself, if she was enjoying the event, etc. etc., she was huffily rude because I was asking her directly, and not her persona.  I think I turned around and walked off at that point.  
   
  And as to people's views of what is and isn't period, I offer the following:  A couple of years ago I got into it with a laurel from another kingdom when we were judging together at an out of kingdom event.  She was indignant that she'd been asked to judge something that she thought was "pre-period".  Shish.  If she'd ever bothered to read the Handbook she'd have known that there is no early period cut off.  Of course, she also insisted that the late cutoff was 1650 instead of 1600.  My point here is to not take it too hard when someone dumps on you.  Instead, take it as a challenge to go find out more about the topic so that you can inform both yourself and them (especially if they are the ones that turn out to be wrong <g>).
   
  Mistress Corrinne
   
  
There is a member of the peerage that would hunt my lady up and "tell" her 
crochet is not period and she should not do it at events. Now she dosen't 
she dose not go to events at all, and I go to far fewer.
have fun play nice.