[Sca-cooks] OP/OT: Wanted: Opinions on Controversial Florilegium article

[rattkitten]

Ok I am going to reply publicly as well...
Stefan KEEP THIS FILE IN NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!
Not yelling that was importance....
I am a parent of a 7 year old and he will be reading this....
Please tell me what idiots I personally should email and tell them to 
fuck off for protesting/harassing this poor girl and her family. 

I go to an event that is not as much acreage as Pennsic but has 5 times 
the people at it...  this article could very well be about that...  
(Don't trust Klingon Ale)  As an adult we cannot give advice to kids 
about Adult situations better than another Kid Could.  The Royals that 
are threatening these folks should be banned... If the adults in her 
area can't face the truth.... screw them!!!!!!!!!  Our Mundane Society 
is full of scary people... what kind of blinders are you wearing that 
you think some of those scary people haven't picked up our hobby? 

You keep that file in for another reason as well.... the SCA has turned 
over to the police child molesters, rapists, and even the sad dumbs 
asses that happened to be in the wrong place at the worst time... it is 
about time we hear from the victims so that they can give advice to 
future generations....

Any adult that is Bitching about THAT article because it portrays the 
SCA in a negative manner... should check the Banned List...
Corporate or BOD should be all over this in a positive manner!!!!!!

I am sorry for being so vehement but damn when a kid gets punished for 
speaking the TRUTH!!!!  It PISSES ME OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was yelling.... ;P  lol

Next thing ya know someone will be spreading the rumor that we are a 
group of guys that like to beat each other with sticks...
Oh Wait....

Nichola

Sharon Palmer wrote:
>> Should I remove it because it puts our Society in a bad light? Or 
>> leave it as a useful article for the teenagers in the SCA?
>>
>> The author was under pressure from her local group and then her 
>> Royalty to remove the article and have threatened her father, a Peer, 
>> with loss of his Peerage. I probably will remove the article because 
>> of her request.
>>
>> I am unlikely to grant the request of a Royal just because they are a 
>> Royal. On the otherhand, I am willing to be convinced that I was 
>> wrong to have ever considered adding this article to the Florilegium.
>>
>> I don't think this is appropriate discussion for this list, so please 
>> email me with your comments, pro or con.
>
> I'm a parent of a 17 year old daughter, who has been mistaken as over 
> 18 since she was 12.
>
> Obviously the author was a teenager in the SCA herself, and has had to 
> deal with these things.  I don't think there is anything false in the 
> article, but I think it could perhaps use a paragraph or two saying 
> that it might not always be this way, but here is how to handle things 
> if you run into the situation.  It seems like the advice is aimed to 
> bigger events, and perhaps especially to Pennsic. When there are 
> 12,000 people on site, even if only a small percent of them get drunk, 
> thats a lot of drunk people
>
> How horrible that the first part about politics gets played out 
> against her.  I'd send her own advice back to her:
>
> "if you are sincere about yourself and all you do, you will shine 
> brighter. It may take a little more work, but you will feel greater 
> about it in the end."
>
> Ranvaig
> _______________________________________________
> Sca-cooks mailing list
> Sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/sca-cooks-ansteorra.org
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com 
> Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.49/2295 - Release Date: 08/10/09 18:19:00
>
>