Still, people keep saying "Hey! It's a Moor in a kilt!"
Wow. I've seen that guy, and my reaction was, "Dude, awesome kilt." I don't understand!
I don't think it's so much a "why are we monochrome and how can we fix it?" as a "why do we assume we're monochrome (and all the other defaults I mentioned) and does that mean we're secretly racist?" stemming from the ephemeral and largely virtual enviroment in which fandom exists: Teh Mightie Internets!
Maybe the SCA is too Eurocentric?
I have thought that from my first foray, but as you said, it's not like they're discouraging of non-European personae or players. I saw a marked enthusiasm (in the dance group, anyway) for unusual personae (probably because it usually=new dances! Yay!).
Well, except that to say that "fandom is white" is to completely ignore movements like the otaku, among whom there are fannish submovements that make y'all look like a bunch of pikers.Exactly! Exactly! Just like saying "Canadians are largely ignorant of race relations" (see my eta to this post) is to
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Wow. I've seen that guy, and my reaction was, "Dude, awesome kilt." I don't understand!
I don't think it's so much a "why are we monochrome and how can we fix it?" as a "why do we assume we're monochrome (and all the other defaults I mentioned) and does that mean we're secretly racist?" stemming from the ephemeral and largely virtual enviroment in which fandom exists: Teh Mightie Internets!
Maybe the SCA is too Eurocentric?
I have thought that from my first foray, but as you said, it's not like they're discouraging of non-European personae or players. I saw a marked enthusiasm (in the dance group, anyway) for unusual personae (probably because it usually=new dances! Yay!).
Well, except that to say that "fandom is white" is to completely ignore movements like the otaku, among whom there are fannish submovements that make y'all look like a bunch of pikers.Exactly! Exactly! Just like saying "Canadians are largely ignorant of race relations" (see my eta to this post) is to ( ... )
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*points accusing fingers*
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I can be blamed for anything! I am a queer socialist Jew-ish person with woman parts!
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