If you want to see a good old-fashioned SCA flame war, check out Why Fencing Harms the SCA as a Whole. I even responded (at around the 150 message mark), and I'm not a rapier fighter.
Wow, that's a lot of reading. But I agree with your last reply, the rapier community may in fact be harmful in some areas but I think in An Tir we are oh so lucky. Most of our rapier community is self sufficient, inclusive, well loved, interested in more things than just rapier. I very seldom hear "oh woe is me, rapier gets no respect here." That makes for a vastly different culture than the ones he's describing - one I did experience in Ealdormere, unfortunately.
I can sympathize with digging one's heels in if something is being forced from your point of view. I don't agree with painting the whole SCA with one kingdom's brush but I think we're lucky enough in An Tir to have a fairly well adjusted group. I can only shrug at this drama.
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