[Sca-cooks] Overdocumentation

[Samrah]

Bronwynmgn at aol.com wrote:
>A request I've been making on many lists:
Please don't refer to people who like to do things authentically (or at least 
more authenticially than you), even if they are mean about it and make you 
feel like an idiot because you don't do it their way, ....

Dear Mistress, 

There are few who like to do things more authentically than me.  There are even fewer who make me feel like an idiot.  There are many who are a good deal meaner.  (The only exceptionis when I find an someone attacking a "newbie".  Then, perhaps dealing with a mama grizzley bear might be easier ;o) 

>After all, the newest newbie has usually been warned about "period nazis" long >before they've ever met anyone who tries to do things really authentically

Your point about the term "nazi" is probably well taken.  I will endeavor to come up with a more suitable term for judgmental authenticity buffs with bad dispositions, and invite everyone on the list to help.  Perhaps if there weren't so many "meanies" about verbally assaulting our "young ones", such warnings would become unnecessary.

While I was apprenticed, my Mistress taught me a very important lesson.  There is never any reason to come away from an encounter with a Laurel with less than a positive impression.  I think it is something that should apply to all of us, not just members of the peerages.

Early on in the SCA, I travelled with some very authentic people with Viking personas.  So much so that they preferred to use very limited spices--only those native to the region they were studying.  One thing that was pleasantly stressed was that this was how they chose to play the game, not how everyone should, and that everyone should make their best attempt....

I think sometimes we all need to be reminded of this.

Samrah


		
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