[Sca-cooks] OT politics and respect

[Susan Fox-Davis]

My personal secret to success in the SCA:  outlive the bastards.  Someday
they'll be out and you will remain.

Selene, Caid

Bethra Spicewell wrote:

> Kiriel wrote: "Ultimately whether you are involved in politics or not,
> you end up being given the respect you earn."
>
>   Yes, but how do you earn it, when the power group refuses to
> acknowledge that you exist?
>   One can offer to cook, autocrat, help out, or what have you; only to
> be ignored, told flat out that "..we can handle it" (no thanks, anyhow)
> or to be coddled along, planning and working, only to be told several
> weeks later that "well, so-and-so has [always been in charge] or [been
> working on that] and they've already got it all set up, so..."
>   Local politics being what they can be, it can be impossible to be
> part of a group that's wound too tight, and if it's too far to go to
> play with others, except on a once or twice a year basis, what is one
> to do?