Re: U.B.A.G.

[Virtual Valkyries <valkyries@jagunet.com>]

Poster: Virtual Valkyries <valkyries@jagunet.com>

Good Gentles,
This "conversation" reminds me rather a bit of the recent one on
acknowledgement, for they are essentially about the same thing.  It seems
that we (the SCA) have a problem with setting rules about conduct.  Some
conduct should be allowed and encouraged, some allowed but discouraged, and
some should be forbidden.  Every society has to have its rules of conduct,
both formal and informal.  Without these rules, chaos follows.  And
unfortunately, it does mean that some activities will be frowned at or
prohibited. A group can not be everything to everybody or soon it becomes
nothing to anyone.  Personally, I feel that things like U.B.A.G. fall into
the category of discouraged practices.  I remember the scene in "Dangerous
Liasons" at the end when the Marquesse goes to the opera and the other
patrons all shake their fans and hiss at her.  technically, she hadn't
broken any laws but she had behaved incorrectly.  I'm not saying reactions
like this should be the norm, but rather reserved for occasions when social
mores have been flagrantly ignored on  fairly grand scale.  (Warning: at
this point, I am merely joking.  Do not get offended) Perhaps someone ahould
write a treatise on the displaying of social discouragement in the SCA.  You
know, a roll of the eyes for a reference to computers while in garb, a sniff
for wearing and performing cabaret belly dancing instead of period belly
dancing, hissing for winning a tourney by flagrantly rhino hiding.
I feel that Earl Sir Dafydd basically expressed his discouragement, not
disallowment.  Two very different things.

In service,
Victoria Fitzgerald
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