[Sca-cooks] Authenticity Police: since we're castigating extremists anyway...

[Michael Newton]

Miss Manners answer was to say something to the effect of " Sir/Madam you
question my honor?"

Thorbjorn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peters, Rise J." <rise.peters at spiegelmcd.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 9:06 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Authenticity Police: since we're castigating extremists
anyway...


> I've been in the SCA for 11 years, and for most of that time have been
> wearing wench bodices and layers of point skirts and cotton chemises with
> elastic.  It may be that I'm just too far gone to attract their attention
> (maybe figuring I'm unsalvageable), but nobody has ever said anything
> negative about my clothing since my very first event (Pennsic -- it was
hot
> -- I was walking around in an underdress and a tabard -- I really didn't
> know that it was the equivalent of a slip and an overcoat, I thought I was
> dressed!)
>
> The most offensive behavior along these lines I've ever seen, though, was
at
> an event in Northern Virginia where someone took it on herself to give a
> guest of mine a hard time about the unbleached rope belt he was wearing
with
> his perfectly authentic monk's robe.  She asserted that, standing there in
a
> monk's robe and sandals and a rope belt, he was pretending to be a member
of
> the chivalry.  She refused to let the topic go, and was so offensive that
he
> hasn't been back since.  But that's not "authenticity police", that's ...
> I'm not quite sure what that is, besides bad manners to a guest.
>
> Caitlin Cheannlaidir, OL (but not for costuming...<G>)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Philip & Susan Troy [mailto:troy at asan.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 9:55 AM
> > To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> > Subject: [Sca-cooks] OT Authenticity Police: since we're castigating
> > extremists anyway...
> >
> >
> > Hullo, the list!
> >
> > As long as we're on about religious fanatics and generally those who
> > would impose their beliefs on others, or their beliefs
> > _about_ others on
> > others, I thought it was worth mentioning that yesterday I
> > was handed a
> > photocopy from Saturday's [Westchester?] Journal-News in which a
> > faithful reader of Miss Manners writes to complain about Authenticity
> > Police. Tne writer describes them accurately in concept, but
> > would have
> > us believe they're quite common in all living-history/re-enactment
> > groups. Miss Manners actually makes fairly intelligent suggestions, I
> > think. It's a fairly long article or I would copy it here.
> > Maybe one of
> > our librarians can find it online someplace?
> >
> > It had always been my impression that for the most part, authenticity
> > police are up there with Men In Black, Silent Black Army Helicopters,
> > and people who have had run-ins with Niemann-Marcus's cookie division.
> > In short, you can't find anybody who has actually had the experience,
> > prepared to name the person who lifted their skirts to check the
> > underwear fabric, but everybody knows someone who knows
> > someone who has
> > dealt with authenticity police.
> >
> > Not to necessarily start another huge thread on this, and I'm
> > not really
> > asking for a show of hands, but how real are these people
> > perceived to be?
> >
> > Adamantius
> > --
> > Phil & Susan Troy
> >
> > troy at asan.com
> >
> > "It was so blatant that Roger threw at him.  Clemens gets away with
> > things that get other people thrown out of games.  As long as they
> > let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre, 9/98
> >
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