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More than ever the EK list makes me wish I had a digital 2x4...

I have come to realize from copious examples just how much "I am not a prude" means "I am a prude".

But it's really the talk of dividing Pennsic into über-Enchanted Ground and a ghetto for everyone the posters secretly wished didn't exist that bothers me.

Oh, dear - they're talking about dancing, aren't they?

Not as of yet. There's a big flap over a woman who was wearing black leather! And fishnets! Think of the children!

Because, it's not the periodicity that bothers us (yes it is (no it isn't)), it's our modern sensibilities, and if my children saw some woman in such an obviously "alternative" outfit, well! I know that some people like to do Those Things, but we shouldn't ever have to see any evidence that they exist.

I see. Wow, these people should take up stamp-collecting or something.

Too late -- it seems they already have children...

Has anyone called her a repressive Nazi yet? Cause it's not a real flame war until Godwin weighs in...

It's pretty one-sided actually. A debate on how we should solve the problem of Those People, with not many out there to call them Nazis...

As far as I'm concerned, the lady in black leather and fishnets can come camp with us, where we will do our best to keep her from the innocent eyes of impressionable children.

Not as of yet. There's a big flap over a woman who was wearing black leather! And fishnets! Think of the children!

Sometimes I do, yes.

Nah -- the pennsicdance mailing list fell on *that* hand grenade, to spare other innocents from it...

If you think such an effort (to divide Pennsic) has a chance to succeed, perhaps it IS important. Concerning fashion... I am not (much of) a prude, and don't care if my children see people wearing fetish clothing (or even just walking around smeared with blue mud), but would prefer that it be fetish clothing (or blue mud patterns) styled from before 1600 if it's at Pennsic.

"über-Enchanted Ground"? Wozzat?

That would be a section of Pennsic which, like Enchanted Ground, would require everything and everybody within it to adhere to a higher standard of periodicity.

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