Re: There's another thing...

Maybe some of the fighters do this as their exercise? Mind you that I
don't do heavy weapons yet ( it is something I want to try though.
Being a girl makes it a little harder ), but it looks like a decent
sort of exercise. I do light weapons, and it's one of the reasons my
mother isn't dead-set against the SCA-- at least I'm playing *some*
sort of sport-like-thing. Another thought is that most of the people
in the SCA tend to fit under the category 'geek' and it's been my
experiance that there's a fair share of people involved in the
computer industry. Maybe it's a sterotype, but aren't computer geeks
usually either a bit too thin ( from forgetting to eat ) or a bit
overweight ( from sitting there all day) ?

  If you look at America as a whole, yeah we're all becoming a bit
obese. At least people in the SCA are getting up and doing something
instead of just sitting in front of their PCs.

  Or maybe feasts *are* part of the problem. I've only gone to four or
five feasts, but they've certainly been filling. It could be that we
eat in period, but don't 'work out' in period ( walking everywhere,
ect. ). Still, I wouldn't change it-- multiple courses means I don't
have to worry about not liking something, or not being able to eat
something since I keep semi-kosher.


"Papiols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Dennis M. O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > "Bryan J. Maloney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote...
> > > "Papiols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nattered on
> > > thusnews:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > >
> > > > What does the SCA offer us that model train clubs or fencing societies
> > > > don't?
> > >
> > > Smorgasboard.
> >
> > And desparate single people.
> 
> ...It's really shocking to see how morbidly obese most people at SCA events
> are nowadays, even the fighters.  I realize it's a problem that's partly a
> result of an ageing average membership (which in itself should be setting
> off alarm bells, but like most problems in the SCA won't be acknowledged
> until far too late), and partly a result of increasing obesity in American
> society, but, damn, it gets depressing to look out over all these people and
> think, "they're going to die young."
> 
> I've lost about a half-dozen SCA friends and acquaintances in the past five
> years.  All were in their forties.  Two were normal weight but smoked.  The
> rest were all morbidly obese.  The men died of massive heart attacks, the
> women of cancer (which latter now seems to have some link to obesity).  They
> were all good people, so I'm not going to go into full-on bastard mode about
> obesity in general, but still--as with the smokers, it makes the pain a
> little sharper when you realize that these people basically *took themselves
> away from you* by what they chose to do with their bodies.
> 
> It seems we live in an age of grotesques: people are either grotesquely fat,
> or if not, then they conform to a standard of beauty that is itself
> grotesque (think of silicon boobs in women; collagen lips, bobbed noses and
> built-up cheekbones in both sexes, and fake pectorals in men).
> 
> And while grotersquery is very much part of the medieval aesthetic, my vote
> is we don't re-create it with out own bodies, and the cost of our own lives.
> 
> --P.
> "Let's to music!  And dancing.  Lots of dancing.  And aerobics..."