[MR] SCA Census..

[Anne]

oops...sent privately when I wanted to post to the Merry Rose...

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Anne <orionsdaughter at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Society may not be able to control a members finances but it sure as
> hel can control the behavior of its members towards each other.
> Members who take thier stupid jealousy into the real world and in the real
> world cost people jobs and freedom over made up and imagined slights and
> real jealousy..  The problem lays in that when one takes it to the Kingdom
> Seneschal you hear, "well its a personal problem" and they do not want to
> get involved.. Nor do people who have a long and well known history of
> chasing people out of a barony or out of the SCA entirely have to face the
> repurcussions of thier behavior...they are just allowed to continue one and
> nothing is done to put a stop to them.
> I thought, when I joined the Society that while we were recreating the
> Middle Ages we were doing it better than they did...
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> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Patty <patoodle at aol.com> wrote:
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>>  I too am wondering about this rumor that the BoD was hesitant to release
>> this. I *do* think it took a while to analyze the data, especially since
>> members of the SCA Census team were doing it on a volunteer basis, and I'm
>> sure that most if not all of them have their own mundane jobs to do for pay.
>>
>>
>> I know we're all going to focus on the "bad experiences with people in the
>> SCA" finding, but I noticed that the top two answers to "What led to the
>> decrease(s) in your activity level in the SCA?" (page 27 of the 61-page
>> slideshow) are two factors that our Society ultimately CANNOT control: lack
>> of time and lack of money.
>>
>> If young adults have to stay in postsecondary school longer (see the
>> recent New York Times article, "The Master's Is the New Bachelor's") and
>> then if they have way too many financial obligations afterward (if they even
>> have a job), how are they supposed to throw themselves into our game? If
>> they work long hours, spend a total of two and a half hours out of their day
>> on the road just commuting, where does that leave time for SCA activities?
>>
>> Just some things to think about before we all start accusing each other of
>> being the source of "bad experiences with people in the SCA."
>>
>> Also, I was intrigued to find out that Atlantia is the fourth largest
>> Kingdom in the Known World. Go us! :-)
>>
>> In service,
>> Patricia of Trakai
>> (who joined the SCA 7.5 years ago)
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