Two amusing threads:
The first, in which some simple advice is offered in
sca, followed quickly by drama of the highest, and finest, order. Alas, the original reply is gone, but it amounted to, "This is yet another example of the condescending, rude and insincere CLASSIST attitudes in the SCA," calling upon all those who fit that description to wear a favor emblazoned with a tampon (including the obligatory picture of one).Some agreed - in fact, I think all of us in the SCA can agree that Authenticity Nazis are, indeed, condescending, rude and insincere. However, heaped upon this particular post was wholly unwarranted (which, of course, the person who replied now denies they were implying at all), and the vast majority of people are calling this person on their own condescension, rudeness and insincerity. Hilarity ensues - over 600 replies and counting!
The second thread was a follow-up post in
sca_snark about the first thread.I haven't seen this much SCA drama since Pennsic! :)
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As for the drama and the people who bring it on, one of these days I'm going to do a fascinating study that'll likely get me kicked out of the SCA. I still have my theories based on my own experience.
Also the amount of replies are not all to that individual. there was a lot of strange hate there. people just came out of various corners raging about this and that.
personally i think what the SCA really needs is a dose of history about the society. hell did you know we used to have elves in the society. Lord of the rings was acceptable reference at one time.
things change yes but not always for the better or worse. in this case i am still deciding. Something i would like to see go the way of the idea that dinosaurs were cold blooded and drug thier tails is the who conversing openly about period and non period. it is not period to say it is not period. indeed many of the cultures represented would never have anything to do with each other. and some of the things i saw posted as not period are PERFECTLY period but perhaps not for that individual. like ring belts. they were very early and later came back as a fashion but what people seem to forget is there is no pre period. i have heard that from a seeming hundred laurels. Also the colour pink being brought up. HOLY HELL that one was stomped to death ages ago. I cannot remember the name of the lady but she showed almost 30 period ways to get it and a ton of reference for it. yet there are still a hundred million period nazis that say it is not period.
the main difference between the nazis and the just authenticity mavens is that nazis scream for people to conform to thier ideal of what is period (usually focused solely on thier period and persona and often very uneducated about it) and that the Authenticity maven will nicely teach what is period. though again they oft times are focused on one period.
heck what was out of fashion in one place in europe might have been the hieght of fashion in another. and still more peasant folks would have had hand me down everything many many decades out of fashion. if not even older.
That is all. carry on.
How about Busybodies?
besides if some of these people in this historic recreation hobby had thier way they would indeed round up offenders and have them removed from the hobby at the least and injured or otherwise removed from reality at the most. this kind of violent opinion often inspires thoughts of nazis as they were not exactly known for thier tolerance either.
also nazis while still in existance today are very much a part of history and well they may not period but their methods were. well except gassing. OH GODS THANK YOU THE CATHOLICS NEVER FOUND SUCH WEAPONS! i can only imagine how much damage they would have done on crusades if they had!
ok thats it Authenticy Inquisitors!
sorry the internet has made you think all people must be such trolls if they say things. but then i guess you can be excused for not understanding the actions of such people in the SCA such as causing injury to people by ripping off glued on ears and such actions. or cornering some little girl and making people have to rescue the crying child because some Authenticity Inquisitor is screaming at her that pink is not period when it is. Or having them try to make it that even people that paid to be in the event would be forbidden to enter if they were not period entirely.
Also suggesting that a group of people that invaded another's land and killing them is exclusive to one group is kinda limited. many many nations have commited grand atrocities against others through history.
Really. :)
I also agree that the SCA has changed, and I, too, appreciate the diversity it's added to the group, so I'm more than willing to overlook the pink or the ring belts or the eyeglasses or the healthy shoes or whatever IF THEY ARE ALSO MAKING AN ATTEMPT by not drinking out of Coke cans or hiding their iPods or not wearing jeans and so on.
and i think i hit on the name for them since some take exception to it.
Authenticity Inquisitors! (though horribly late for my period and the wrong country) i think it could work. though i still think they need tampons as a device
of course the most unperiod thing is mentioning it is not period
man sitting with a can of pepsi when along comes a Authenticity Inquisitor and says that it is not period
without batting an eye the person responded with "Of course not! that would be disgusting!"
there's a drama,
and another SCAdian drama,
nasty drama,
Nazi drama,
drama, drama,
fuck.