[Sca-cooks] muslim/islamic courts

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

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> > Last years summer Prince and Princess did a court at our big summer event
> > in period style (she's ME, he's 1st Crusade German) and there were two
> > courts, a men's and a women's. Big flat dais, lots of rugs, hangings,
> > pillows. Leyla did her research pretty thoroughly (she'd better have,
> > she'd just been laureled for ME costume and research) so I imagine at
> > least some of it was dead-on accurate. IIRC Leyla is Bedouin.
> >
> > She also encouraged people to attend in drag, and we did have a handful of
> > women in kilts at the men's court and a few men in full ME dress and face
> > veils at women's court. I was a proper lady and hid in the back behind the
> > trees, with my face covered. ;-)
> >
> > Incidentally, it caused great controversy in the Principality. My husband
> > boycotted court entirely, as did many others.
> >
> >
>
> Why did they do that? It sounds like a fun idea...
>
> Generys

Because it was wrong to have two courts segregated by gender,
apparently, and would set horrible precedents. People reacted as if TSH
were encouraging bestiality on stage. Welcome to the northern
Plains/Midwest, where everything must be equal all the time for everyone,
lest someone be offended. You can just imagine the problems we have with
the concepts of royalty, peerage, etc.... ;-)

Margaret