I also want to add (forgot in my initial reply): We as a society talk a great talk about courtesy and chivalry and The Dream. How courteous is it for a fighter to spend all day in the list field wearing sweats and plastic, then as soon as they're done fighting take off for the steakhouse and bar. The fighters are in many ways the most visible of us, our glowing neon sign. If they can treat an event like a hockey game and just have their fun and walk away, that's a signpost others will follow. Non fighters don't exist to enable fighters. I'm picking on fighters specifically, not out of any malice, but because they are so visible and prominent. We (SCA in general) have bloody Kings who go to court in sweatpants!
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We as a society talk a great talk about courtesy and chivalry and The Dream. How courteous is it for a fighter to spend all day in the list field wearing sweats and plastic, then as soon as they're done fighting take off for the steakhouse and bar. The fighters are in many ways the most visible of us, our glowing neon sign. If they can treat an event like a hockey game and just have their fun and walk away, that's a signpost others will follow. Non fighters don't exist to enable fighters.
I'm picking on fighters specifically, not out of any malice, but because they are so visible and prominent. We (SCA in general) have bloody Kings who go to court in sweatpants!