Yea,
Those that do not go to sca because of drunk dumb asses, along with people out of custome, well your right,
At the re-enacting pyrate events you never see drunk people or people out of custome. Oh wait........
The difference is the sca does not invite these people to come this way, we discourage it and these people are usally dealt with in the morn. Where as the re-enacting groups go in public and invite people out of costume to attend-- whats the diff. they invite and we don't? Also many of these open public pyrate gathering are held in areas where you go to bars and drink, hell many of the parties end up or start in a bar. How real and great is that. There are bad points in the sca nad in the re-enacting groups. It comes down to what you are trying to do, not always what happens. I can bet that people who complain that sca and other re-living groups are not period or let people get drunk have themselves or had a friend get drunk and acted stupid, we just don' t have the pics. Hey, we are all trying to have fun SCA or not, its how much we sit and judge what others are and are not doing. That leads to a death of the fun we once had. Do I wish we had perfect events (all in true garb, real talk, ect.....) yes, but I ignoir that which I dislike and focus on the good parts.
Delmar