[MR] Asian Personas

[M'lady Foxy]

 As said lets let this drop.. apologies have been made and the peace pipe smoked ...can we please get back to learning about each rather then fighting each other?

 Steven I'm only sarcastic when you don't do your chores around the house lol

--- On Mon, 9/21/09, Steven Chang <moondragn at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Steven Chang <moondragn at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [MR] Asian Personas
> To: "Bambi TBNL" <hippy_dippy_dancer at yahoo.com>
> Cc: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Date: Monday, September 21, 2009, 2:40 PM
> Bambi, again, nobody was criticizing
> anyone about their persona. This
> discussion came about because I off-handedly mentioned that
> I dunno if
> I could ever play a persona that is part of my Chinese
> Heritage. It
> had nothing to do with Racism or anything else remotely
> close to that
> for that matter.
> 
> It seems to be a common theme on the Merry Rose, people
> assuming the
> worse from other people's comments. There was no disrespect
> or racism
> here. I know foxy, she's not a sarcastic person (not much
> anyway)
> 
> I'm sorry I was indirectly responsible for this thread.
> Please lets
> just drop it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Donal Maclauren.
> 
> 
> On 9/21/09, Bambi TBNL <hippy_dippy_dancer at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Sigh.
> > 24 yeasrs ago I was sitting in a little dark corner
> reading the Merry Rose
> > off of UUNET and being totally intimidated because a
> conversation just ike
> > this one was raging over the "blue eyed samuri"
> running around pennsic. As a
> > black woman who had done civil waar and got really
> tired of having to defend
> > my self for not wearing burlap and ashes, I would not
> concider jumping from
> > one frying pan into another fire.
> > It took me another 3 years to attend my first event
> and I was waiting for
> > someone to say something because I wor German Renn my
> second event.
> > Everybody was very welcoming...the dress wasnt half
> bad either..but I kept
> > waitng for the other shoe to drop.The dress has since
> gone on to dress other
> > women in the SCA as my waistline has gone on to grow
> out of it. I have
> > learned a lot..including some really miserable stories
> about people who were
> > dreadfully hurt by someone saying basically..how dare
> you represent
> > something you couldnt possibly be....
> > It is the Society for Creative Anachronisms...
> >  not       Society for
> Commenting Acrimoniously.
> > No one has ever been that  way to me ,personally
> ,but it made me believe
> > that I would be unwelcome because if I did do middle
> eastern or
> > northafrican...I would then have been ostrisized
> because it wasnt european.
> > It wasnt true, but just reading this stuff trying to
> get the nerve to be
> > part of this organization can be very discouraging.
> > Which is why I suppose, when I went to my first
> Pennsic,XVIIII, there were
> > 6000 attendees and only 4 other women of color, and we
> regularly all got
> > called Isabella, who didnt attend that year!
> > The Creative part should be obvious but sometimes it
> isnt.
> > After 20 years in the SCA, I cant believe this caca
> even comes up
> > anymore....I thought it had been outgrown.
> >
> >
> >
> > Bambi (To be named ater) TBNL
> >
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