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gurdymonkeyO my readers of the SCA persuasion, it's that time again. A newcomer to the sca-jml Yahoo Group is not actually a newcomer to the Society, but after an absence of some years he discovers that suddenly the persona choice he made a very long time ago "detracts" from someone's "vision of The Dream," God help us all. I immediately directed him to my private blend of Asshole Repellent.
Another poster chimed in that she was told she would have to give up her Japanese persona and reign as a European if anyone ever fought and won a Crown Tourney in her honor!
East Asian personae date to the early years of the Society. Non-Western-persona members have been valuable and valued contributors to this game for its entire duration. Anyone who says otherwise needs a portcullis dropped on his head. The current king of Northshield, Kitadate-Tenno, has a Japanese persona.
You know what detracts from my vision of this game we play? People who feel the need to shit on other people who are playing within the rules of the game. You wanna trick yourself out in a wool apron and a fur hat, knock yourself out, it's fine by me. You wanna bake a linen pie in your oven and wear it around your neck (I'm looking at you Ms. T!), you go!
You wanna give me the ol' Eurocentric stink-eye for attending my Kingdom's Twelfth Night in the finest attire befitting my persona, pray visualize this: there's seventy yards of it. Fully researched. Hand sewn. Now kindly get out of my way, if you please.
EDIT: Commenters who insist on invoking The Dream (TM) in my journal will be summarily sent to the far side of the portcullis and used for target practice. The Dream (TM) is an idiotic concept that has been used to justify laziniess, wooly thinking, and the aforementioned persona-bigotry. Pray leave it at home.
Another poster chimed in that she was told she would have to give up her Japanese persona and reign as a European if anyone ever fought and won a Crown Tourney in her honor!
East Asian personae date to the early years of the Society. Non-Western-persona members have been valuable and valued contributors to this game for its entire duration. Anyone who says otherwise needs a portcullis dropped on his head. The current king of Northshield, Kitadate-Tenno, has a Japanese persona.
You know what detracts from my vision of this game we play? People who feel the need to shit on other people who are playing within the rules of the game. You wanna trick yourself out in a wool apron and a fur hat, knock yourself out, it's fine by me. You wanna bake a linen pie in your oven and wear it around your neck (I'm looking at you Ms. T!), you go!
You wanna give me the ol' Eurocentric stink-eye for attending my Kingdom's Twelfth Night in the finest attire befitting my persona, pray visualize this: there's seventy yards of it. Fully researched. Hand sewn. Now kindly get out of my way, if you please.
EDIT: Commenters who insist on invoking The Dream (TM) in my journal will be summarily sent to the far side of the portcullis and used for target practice. The Dream (TM) is an idiotic concept that has been used to justify laziniess, wooly thinking, and the aforementioned persona-bigotry. Pray leave it at home.
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Hey, nice Noh mask!
Date: 2009-01-01 01:38 am (UTC)I find the "You're all foreigners to me" approach works whether I'm Saionji confronted by Europeans or Jehanne confronted by Saracens, hairy Northmen, or fashionistas from Elizabeth's court.
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Date: 2009-01-01 06:04 am (UTC)That's an approach that works for me, too (although when confronted with some of the more egregious Pennsicians, I switch to "They must be players--who else would wear raiments like that?").
Re: Hey, nice Noh mask!
Date: 2009-01-01 06:55 am (UTC)can actually be rather enjoyable. The SCA's governing documents say (my summary) that if you play non-European to think of yourself as a guest in a European court. I can have fun with that--talk about how kind everyone has been to a traveller far from home, etc., and go on about how when we get back to Kyoto, we'll have to tell everyone about our adventures and how my poor husband is already stressing because he knows he'll be expected to write tanka about it and he's not a poet.
Re: Hey, nice Noh mask!
Date: 2009-01-01 05:37 pm (UTC)