[MR] SCA Census..

[Gwyn]

being one of the 6% who have been in the sca almost 30 years, I concur. As long as we allow people to get away with this behavior, and not speak out for our fellows, bullies will thrive. Chivalry is all about standing up against bullies, even if they are officers or peers. 
“Evil flourishes when good men do nothing.”
~British statesman Edmund Burke


--- On Mon, 7/25/11, Anne <orionsdaughter at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Anne <orionsdaughter at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MR] SCA Census..
To: "Merry Rose" <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Date: Monday, July 25, 2011, 6:55 PM


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...
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Patty <patoodle at aol.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>  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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