Color me pink!
Mar. 11th, 2007 07:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyAnd that's not just because I forgot to wear a hat today.
There's a new guy on the Tousando who's been asking for all sorts of information. In one of his armoring posts he had mentioned he'd recently lost 100 pounds! When someone dubbed him a hero for this impressive accomplishment, he aw shucks'ed and said he'd done it to be all he can for his lady and daughter. At which point I said he was MY hero. (Well, next to Glenn who dropped everything to get us a new water heater toute suite!)
So then he calls me HIS hero - for telling him how to tie his hakama. Happening to have a bookmark on Japanese guy clothes does not constitute heroism in any roll of honor I've ever heard of, but it was very sweet of him to have said so.
There's a new guy on the Tousando who's been asking for all sorts of information. In one of his armoring posts he had mentioned he'd recently lost 100 pounds! When someone dubbed him a hero for this impressive accomplishment, he aw shucks'ed and said he'd done it to be all he can for his lady and daughter. At which point I said he was MY hero. (Well, next to Glenn who dropped everything to get us a new water heater toute suite!)
So then he calls me HIS hero - for telling him how to tie his hakama. Happening to have a bookmark on Japanese guy clothes does not constitute heroism in any roll of honor I've ever heard of, but it was very sweet of him to have said so.
See why I love my Nihonjin brothers and sisters? They rock. (Well, there is that one who is so blockheadedly myopic one has the urge to grab her by the scruff, shake and cry "FOCUS!" I am assured she is a lot better in person so I must cut slack.) They say "please" and "thank you" and routinely address each other with honorifics because to be Japanese - even if it's only in our heads - is to be polite, respectful, honorable.
I think it's precisely because it's harder to have an Asian persona in the SCA. Like the man in the brown armor says, it requires fortitude. One has to want it badly enough to do it at all, and want it REALLY badly to do it any sort of justice. Then there's the fact that we are few and far flung. We have to network, we have to cooperate and share information because we may not have anyone local to do that with. You should see the happy frenzy that ensues when somebody - anybody - posts "I'm traveling to your event in X!" Or "Who's going to Estrella?" Or Gulf Wars or Pennsic or whatever.
I think it's precisely because it's harder to have an Asian persona in the SCA. Like the man in the brown armor says, it requires fortitude. One has to want it badly enough to do it at all, and want it REALLY badly to do it any sort of justice. Then there's the fact that we are few and far flung. We have to network, we have to cooperate and share information because we may not have anyone local to do that with. You should see the happy frenzy that ensues when somebody - anybody - posts "I'm traveling to your event in X!" Or "Who's going to Estrella?" Or Gulf Wars or Pennsic or whatever.
