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edricusSome of my friends on FB write about that the SCA is falling appart and that E-SCA is breaking the fun.
In my mundane life I work with organizational development and at times with Change management which also means trying to understand why certain responses show up.
My feeling is that many of us who are a bit older in the SCA feel that the discussions that are being held are emotionally difficult, we might not be consious of the respons or why we feel the way we do. Now of course discussions about racism and sexism are difficult subjects to get to grips with. We have most likely allways has had the problems but that is a different issue, I am trying to understand the respons to the situation.
So in a way I beleive that the SCA (or any hobby) has been a place where you actually could turn off the outside world and not have to care about it. The problems of everyday were simply left at the door, everybody could leave their luggage, come in rest and recouperate and then go back to the outside world feeling a bit refreshed.
But now suddenly this calm haven of life has left the door wide open and all of the problems from the outside come into this in someway sacred space. You suddenly encounter the discussions you have at work and read of in the newspapers and hear on the news, in this part of your life that before you saw as safe.
I believe that the discussions happening now are necessary, but I understand that they will be painfull. I wrote this down in order to have an idea of why certain responses show up. It is not that people disagree on the issues as much as they most likely have an unconcious emotional respons to a difficult question and most people act on change and problems with a form of denial.
Change takes time, it is not just a matter of changing a policy, this deals with culture, and in general culture eats strategy for breakfast.
In my mundane life I work with organizational development and at times with Change management which also means trying to understand why certain responses show up.
My feeling is that many of us who are a bit older in the SCA feel that the discussions that are being held are emotionally difficult, we might not be consious of the respons or why we feel the way we do. Now of course discussions about racism and sexism are difficult subjects to get to grips with. We have most likely allways has had the problems but that is a different issue, I am trying to understand the respons to the situation.
So in a way I beleive that the SCA (or any hobby) has been a place where you actually could turn off the outside world and not have to care about it. The problems of everyday were simply left at the door, everybody could leave their luggage, come in rest and recouperate and then go back to the outside world feeling a bit refreshed.
But now suddenly this calm haven of life has left the door wide open and all of the problems from the outside come into this in someway sacred space. You suddenly encounter the discussions you have at work and read of in the newspapers and hear on the news, in this part of your life that before you saw as safe.
I believe that the discussions happening now are necessary, but I understand that they will be painfull. I wrote this down in order to have an idea of why certain responses show up. It is not that people disagree on the issues as much as they most likely have an unconcious emotional respons to a difficult question and most people act on change and problems with a form of denial.
Change takes time, it is not just a matter of changing a policy, this deals with culture, and in general culture eats strategy for breakfast.
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Date: 2020-06-26 01:03 pm (UTC)I know of a few cases (mostly second hand) where people came in, looked at the "non-political" position taken, decided (pretty reasonably) that that equated to support of the status quo, and went elsewhere. I know of a few more people who went away after some time because they felt they weren't being accepted, that they were still being treated as token representatives of their gender, sexuality or race, and weren't included in the same way.
And while the invisibility of this to the established folk is absolutely the case, once they're told it's there, they should be able to see the outlines at least. At an absolute minimum, pretending that there is no bias or privilege in the world has to go.
The recent evidence arising of a knight and royal peer actively working against minorities is, of course, a whole new level of fetch-the-petrol-can.
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Date: 2020-06-26 01:07 pm (UTC)