SC - questions/kinda long, sorry
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Fri Jun 16 11:09:13 PDT 2000
At 1:24 PM -0400 6/16/00, Elaine Koogler wrote:
>I've seen this often enough that I caution new folks who are about
>to go to their
>first event about it, tell them to tell the offending individual
>that "....their
>telling you that your garb is not period is not period!"
But telling them that telling you that your garb is not period is not
period is also not period.
The appropriate thing to tell new people, at least ones who like the
idea of being in period and in persona, is that someone telling them
that their garb is not period is not period, hence they, in order to
be period, should ignore it. If they wish, they can ignore it with a
puzzled expression, as if they had just been told that their garb was
gnklflx.
You might also tell them that people who make a point of using
claimed expertise in order to put down other people are quite likely
to be unreliable as sources of information.
To make my point in different words ... . Your advice is to make a
dishonest argument in order to put down people who deserve being put
down. It is a dishonest argument because it implies that being in
persona is just as important a part of playing SCA as wearing period
clothing--and although I believe that, you don't, since if you did
you wouldn't be proposing a put down that can only be made by
breaking persona yourself.
Your real objection is not that the offending individual is imposing
standards of authenticity on others that he doesn't meet himself--you
would, after all, be just as annoyed at him if he waited until the
event was over and then made the rude comment, when doing so didn't
break persona. Your real objection is that he is being rude.
David/Cariadoc
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/
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