People you wish wouldn't come????

[Merlin the Elder]

You can't imagine! I've a sis-in-law who won't read or watch Harry Potter because of the witches thing. We've kept quiet about the fact that we are a Wiccan and Druid leaning couple...

[Kate]

...and all she does all day is make snide comments about men in skirts and cross dressers. The fact that the kilt is not and never has been a woman's garment is not at all relevant to her prejudice. .... Gives her even more to nag about than just all the cross dressing kilt wearers!

I she ever wears a plaid skirt, call her a cross-dresser for wearing a kilt!!!

[angusmacinnes]

Sounds more to me like someone is not comfortable in there own skin and has issues with their own sexuality. 

[Nighthawk]

-snort-
cross dressing kilt wearers!
I honestly thought that Christian Right thing about kilts being gay was a sarcastic hoax.

Sadly, no. I went to her church once, just to mess with her (my dad and I make a game out of driving her nuts!) and I got mostly compliments from everyone except for her and a few others. There are a few nutjobs out there... and my brother married one! Truth is, most of the time, she's really cool to be around. Every so often God comes out, though.

You can't imagine! I've a sis-in-law who won't read or watch Harry Potter because of the witches thing. We've kept quiet about the fact that we are a Wiccan and Druid leaning couple...

Oh no- I can imagine! My sis in law is the same way. My car brakes down and she tell me that God is punishing me. Sure, I neglected having my transmission serviced for 150k miles... but that had nothin' to do with nothin'...

...and all she does all day is make snide comments about men in skirts and cross dressers. The fact that the kilt is not and never has been a woman's garment is not at all relevant to her prejudice. .... Gives her even more to nag about than just all the cross dressing kilt wearers!

I she ever wears a plaid skirt, call her a cross-dresser for wearing a kilt!!!

I made the agruement that she wears pants. She said "But these are women's pants!" To which I replied that pants are mens clothes, so if women can wear them, doesn't that mean that her husband is wearing womens clothes? And then I asked her why I never see paintings of Jesus wearing pants. Neither one of those amused her in the least...

Sounds more to me like someone is not comfortable in there own skin and has issues with their own sexuality. 

Angus... You have no idea! Or maybe you do...

[Dinobabe]

Sadly, no. I went to her church once, just to mess with her (my dad and I make a game out of driving her nuts!) and I got mostly compliments from everyone except for her and a few others. There are a few nutjobs out there... and my brother married one! Truth is, most of the time, she's really cool to be around. Every so often God comes out, though.

Trust me, that's not God coming out.
Some people just put up a religious defense so they don't have to experience life.
Ironically enough, my mom, who took me to Faires, has some how reverted.  Especially ever since she started teaching at this Christian school (some of the most UN-Christian people I have ever met!!!!!!).  She told me the other day that Henna was a pagan devil symbol!

[Nighthawk]

Trust me, that's not God coming out.
Some people just put up a religious defense so they don't have to experience life.
Ironically enough, my mom, who took me to Faires, has some how reverted.  Especially ever since she started teaching at this Christian school (some of the most UN-Christian people I have ever met!!!!!!).  She told me the other day that Henna was a pagan devil symbol!

Catholics call it justification- using God to justify bad behavior.

[Merlin the Elder]

I'm a recovering Catholic... It isn't just Catholics.  Thank God I'm Atheist now...

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

Wiccans are witches who put bad spells on people.

Pagans are a bunch of tree-hugging, tree-loving nuts.

Christians are a bunch of right wing, narrow-minded hateful idiots.

Muslims are trying to destroy the world and anyone who is not Muslim.


Yeah, you can generalize about anything and make ridiculous comments like the ones above.  One size does not fit all.  So why bash anybody?  That's not what this thread is about.  It's about people that you took to faire and wish you hadn't.  What their religion, sexual orientation, race, gender, or whatever, doesn't - and shouldn't - come into it.

Why doesn't everybody get back on topic?  If you need to have discussions, then use private messaging.

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

Pardon my post Lady Buchanan, after your first rate response, but I was raised in a Roman Catholic family, and find nothing wrong with faire, even grew up playing D&D. Questions of Faith lay were your heart is, not where you're standing.


From the offices of the original "Cross Dressers"!

[irish]

Ahhhhhhh, I am 'glad' to see, I am not the only one who wishes people wouldn't go to faire with them!
A friend went this year and all she wanted to do was sit, complained about the food, and when I saw people I knew, she felt it was rude of me, to introduce her to them!   What should I of done? She is standing beside me......
I gave her a complete outfit to wear...actually gave it to her! I never wore it, but she said she'd love to have an outfit for faire. Guess what? She never wore it! Said it was too hot. It is a real light cotton, flowey as all get out, not clingy at all.  
Needless to say, I did tell her, I wasn't going to faire, when I was able to go. Had to 'white-lie' about it.  

[Dance_Dance]

Ahhhhhhh, I am 'glad' to see, I am not the only one who wishes people wouldn't go to faire with them!
A friend went this year and all she wanted to do was sit, complained about the food, and when I saw people I knew, she felt it was rude of me, to introduce her to them!  What should I of done? She is standing beside me......
I gave her a complete outfit to wear...actually gave it to her! I never wore it, but she said she'd love to have an outfit for faire. Guess what? She never wore it! Said it was too hot. It is a real light cotton, flowey as all get out, not clingy at all. 
Needless to say, I did tell her, I wasn't going to faire, when I was able to go. Had to 'white-lie' about it. 

*scratches head*  Um, how is it rude to be introduced to people?  I thought it was rude when you didn't introduce a friend to another group of friends, especially when they're all standing in the same spot.

I'm grateful that I've never had to deal with a naysayer of the faire at the faire.  I hear it sometimes from my step-dad, but he never asks to go and doesn't make too much of a fuss.  I think he just doesn't get it but he'd rather see me happy than understand me.

However, I do have friends who love the faire but don't want to spend all day or weekend there – or they can't because of money issues, homework, family stuff, jobs, etc.  When I try to get my friends to go on one weekend, I tell them that I'll drive however many I can fit into my car but I'm planning to stay there the entire day.  If they want to duck out early or show up late, they've got to find their own form of transport.  I also tell them the one big thing that I want to do that day – we go to the NoCal RF, so it's usually seeing the Moonie and Broon show at five – that way they know that I'm not budging on that fact.  Of course, I never ask anyone to stick with me if they're not having fun. 

Tabitha, I agree with the advice given before, you should talk to her about her negative attitude.  But to add to that, next time you guys go to the faire, let her know beforehand what you're planning for that day and ask her if there's anything she wants to do that day.  By asking for her input, you're including her in your plans, and by telling her that you have certain things you're going to do, it'll let her know that it won't be centered on what she wants.

What I don't get is why she insists on coming along if she's only going to complain.  Does she do that elsewhere?  Is that just her?  Because if this really only happens at the Ren Faire, then maybe she goes along with you so she can spend time with you.  *shrugs* I don't know enough about her, obviously, but if that might be the case, then maybe set up a time and place where you two can do something you mutually enjoy.

[irish]

Yea in her mind........lol.......to be introduced to people she would never meet again, was rude and she felt it made the people I introduced her to, uneasy. WTH? LMAO!

[Dance_Dance]

Yea in her mind........lol.......to be introduced to people she would never meet again, was rude and she felt it made the people I introduced her to, uneasy. WTH? LMAO!

Wow. . . I wish I had something useful to reply to that, but I'm dumbfounded.

Oh, I know!  She must be a psychic!  How else can she know she's never going to see these people again?  She's amazing!  See if she can get the Lotto numbers for next week!  (Sorry, that was a bit harsh.  I'm still very confused by her.  I mean, even if she never sees them again, it's not like a one-day meeting can't be meaningful or fun.  I think you summed it up perfectly with WTH? XD)

[Zardoz]

My sister in law... My brother and my nephews and my brother are great, but my sister in law is a born again Christian, and is very (VERY!!) closed minded. I portray a Scottish Highlander persona, and all she does all day is make snide comments about men in skirts and cross dressers. The fact that the kilt is not and never has been a woman's garment is not at all relevant to her prejudice. Her son dresses up like a pirate- Uncle Nighthawk has helped him put together his garb- and that is bad enough, but me in a kilt? Wow... I'm hellbound for sure!! And then there's the fact that most Rennies seem to be pagan... Gives her even more to nag about than just all the cross dressing kilt wearers!

Here's a little advice on that
http://www.kiltmen.com/bible.htm

[Nighthawk]

Wiccans are witches who put bad spells on people.

Pagans are a bunch of tree-hugging, tree-loving nuts.

Christians are a bunch of right wing, narrow-minded hateful idiots.

Muslims are trying to destroy the world and anyone who is not Muslim.


Yeah, you can generalize about anything and make ridiculous comments like the ones above.  One size does not fit all.  So why bash anybody?  That's not what this thread is about.  It's about people that you took to faire and wish you hadn't.  What their religion, sexual orientation, race, gender, or whatever, doesn't - and shouldn't - come into it.

Why doesn't everybody get back on topic?  If you need to have discussions, then use private messaging.

Huh?

So people I wish hadn't come to faire with me... My 14 year old daughter and her friend Julia. Last time I took them, they went into our costuming tent, tried everything on, decided they liked nothing, put nothing away, left the tent a mess, and then spent the day griping about being bored!!