I pose a question to the Scadians at large

[femkes_follies]

Now that I'm done pitching my little fit...(well, pausing, anyway)

Here's a philosophical question...

Why is it more or less acceptable (at least by MK standards) to throw an early period event, and even make it annual.... but not to theme something to later periods, because "that would make it too narrow focus and people wouldn't come."

Why is it acceptable to host an event pointed at a minor culture but not anything, say, French? Never have I seen a "Germanic Symposium" or a "French Cuture Study Day." To suggest a thing gets you "the look." (Even if you don't actually suggest the "Cheese-eating Surrender Monkey" tourney.)

Has Political Correctness come to mean anything that's considered "minority?"

Or is it that unusual cultures tend to become at least temporary fads and attract attention, at least in the short term?

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Elizabethan-Themed Event

[elizabethankat.livejournal.com]

A group of us in Arizona put on an Elizabethan-themed feast in July (we were inspired by the Perfectly Period Feast). It wasn't an SCA event per se as it wasn't on the calendar but it also wasn't private. Instead it was a limited number of paying guests who sat the feast and an almost equal number of volunteers who did the serving, cooking, etc. People knew about this event nine months ahead of time so the guests had plenty of time to make upper class Elizabethan outfits. The volunteers made clothes more appropriate to the servant class. I truly think this is the only way to do a very specific culture/time period event because everyone involved truly wants to be there and so there's no complaining about the theme.