[Ansteorra] SCA associations (was RE: Group status changes)

[L T]

Sir Rhodri once did a class at a Round Table on how to use SCA positions to boost your resume.

I wonder if we could talk him into doing that again.

LDeerSlayer

--- On Thu, 7/17/08, Manners, Tabitha <tabitha.manners at okstate.edu> wrote:

> From: Manners, Tabitha <tabitha.manners at okstate.edu>
> Subject: [Ansteorra] SCA associations (was RE:  Group status changes)
> To: "mungentuya at yahoo.com" <mungentuya at yahoo.com>, "Kingdom of Ansteorra -  SCA,  Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 8:33 AM
> This raises a question, are you clarifying that SCA stands
> for Society for Creative Anachronism or are you just
> talking about the SCA.  It has actually gone done on the
> search relevance lists recently, but SCA is also used
> commonly to refer to the Satanic Church of America and this
> may be where some of these problems and mis-associations
> stem from.  Combine that with talk of Beltane and Samhain
> and it is easy for uninformed groups to get them confused
> or combine the two in their mind.
> 
> Liliana
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ansteorra-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org
> [mailto:ansteorra-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of
> Mungentuya TirMedoin
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:44 AM
> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Group status changes
> 
>  <I have also had people say stuff to me when wearing
> garb, not the usual
> "are you in a play?" but things like calling me a
> Satan worshipper. Heck, I
> even had to deal with that attitude from my family too, for
> quite sometime.
> It is something that we have to deal with out here. We
> fight a lot of
> different biases, because as said below, we seem to be less
> urban and more
> rural.>
> 
> I've been working on a resume and I was told to leave
> SCA and all SCA activities out of my resume and interview
> because of of the satanic worshipper stigma that somehow
> attached itself to the group.
> 
> My area (Temple/Belton, or the western area of Tir Medoin)
> also has a Christian university that has strong influence
> in Belton, and I've run into the problems of people
> thinking that since we (the SCA) don't promote any
> religion, we're automatically satanic. Though I've
> helped some understand, most can't understand the
> SCA's not promoting religion and have the same
> misconception as the 'no prayer in schools'
> situation.  You can still DO it, but it's not done in a
> way that makes people who don't want to feel like they
> HAVE to.  At least that's what I'm interpreting
> from SCA policy and what I've seen at the events
> I've been to.
> 
> Also, has anyone else had to deal with people who thought
> the SCA was a terrorist group?  I've been in that
> situation twice and have been lucky enough to be able to
> explain things and help the person understand that
> we're not here to take the White House one stick at a
> time.   Has anyone else run into this?
> 
> Mungentuya
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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