[Sca-cooks] Out of the food topic altogether rantAuthenticitypolice

[Micheal]

 Exactly my point thank you.
 Da
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Stanifer" <jugglethis at yahoo.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Out of the food topic altogether 
rantAuthenticitypolice


>
> --- Lisa <silvina at allegiance.tv> wrote:
>
> .  In my experience, most people who are called
>> Authenticity police are actually individuals who are just extremely 
>> excited
>> about their subject and don't always think about how something sounds 
>> before
>> they say it.
>
> I wish my experience was similar to yours.  In my own experience, 
> 'Authenticity Police' seem to be
> working from a 'holier-than-thou' mindest, which I find despicable, and 
> which is why the term has
> gained a negative connotation.
>
> I take criticism very well, if it is constructive AND backed up with 
> explanation and action.  What
> I do NOT take well is someone standing over me wearing a pair of 
> sunglasses, and ridiculing my use
> of Doc Martins on the battlefield.  And don't try to CYA by giving me some 
> clap-trap about how you
> *have* to wear them because the Tetracyclene you are taking for your 
> Cystic Acne makes you
> sensitive to sunlight.  That just makes things worse.  It's almost as bad 
> as someone on this list
> trying to justify the use of Corn Starch in a recipe, because they are 
> alergic to wheat gluten,
> but still looking down their nose at someone else because they used lemon 
> juice instead of verjus.
>
> If you camp in a nylon tent, you've got no room to criticize anyone, for 
> anything, at any time.
> The same holds true if you wear any piece of garb, no matter how small, 
> which was not made of
> period fabrics, in a period manner.  It really does not matter *how* the 
> person speaks to you in
> this case... it's a matter of *if* the person speaks to you.  People who 
> live in glass houses
> should not throw stones.
>
> Now, if someone has their own ducks in a row, and wishes to offer up 
> advice to me on a particular
> subject, then I *may* listen to them.  If they are 100% authentic in every 
> aspect of their SCA
> life, then I *will* listen to them, and thank them for taking the time to 
> offer their insights.
>
> Everyone else can keep their distance.
>
> William de Grandfort
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> =====
> Through teeth of sharks, the Autumn barks.....and Winter squarely bites 
> me.
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