[Artemisia] Gender Bending Barons

[Jeff Brainard]

Please do feel free to pipe up, but am I the only one who thinks this
is a ludicrious convolution? Why would a couple both transvest for the
sake of a hat? It's absurd. It is perfectly within the bylaws of the
SCA for a woman to rule in her own right without subjecting herself or
her consort to such masquerade. 

Marco dei Caprioli


--- Stephanae Baker <stephanae at countryrhoades.net> wrote:

> As an interesting side note (someone please correct me if I'm wrong),
>  
> I think it's perfectly legal for (for example) a man with a female  
> persona to become "queen" and have a woman consort with a male  
> persona be the "king" as long as the individuals in question actually
>  
> possess opposite sex body parts. I will, however, refrain from  
> offering my opinion about the logic of this rule.
> 
> Belladonna
> 
> 
> On Sep 4, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Stephanae Baker wrote:
> 
> > That's kind of what Morgan made it sound like. Although if barons
> > have the same rules as the crown, I'm pretty sure that, for crown,
> > the fighter and his or her opposite sex consort are required to
> > actually possess the body parts they claim to have and no "persona"
> > excuses are accepted. Not that I've ever seen them check (even
> though
> > it might add an interesting flare to crown pageantry). I might be
> > wrong, too.
> >
> > Belladonna
> >
> >
> > On Sep 4, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Sarah Natividad wrote:
> >
> >> OK, so here's a totally hypothetical question, since I'm neither
> >> male nor
> >> gay and my persona is the same gender as myself, and none of that
> >> is likely
> >> to change, nor do I have any desire to be a Baron(ess).
> >>
> >> I know that your persona doesn't have to have the same gender as
> >> yourself.
> >> So suppose there were a gay male couple, one of whom had a female
> >> persona
> >> and one of whom had a male persona.  Could the male persona'd
> >> partner be the
> >> baron and the female persona'd partner be the baroness?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Leonor da Costa
> >> (formerly known as Sarah Natividad, now officially a member!)
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Sarah Natividad
> >> http://curiousworkmanship.etsy.com
> >> http://organicbabyfarm.blogspot.com
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