- Joined
- Jan 12, 2019
Yeah this seems about right. My experience has been that you can avoid hearing people's shit opinions because they don't come up in the context of a medieval art, but if it ever does come up you may swiftly realize how many weirdos there are.True but no one takes them seriously outside of that very small sphere since most people in that field (at least in my own personal interactions with them) realize that their field of study doesn't really matter or effect the modern world at large. Of course these are face to face interactions and not terminally online losers getting angry in youtube comments/videos.
To give an example there are a few DSA types I know who are into it as a socially acceptable alternative to guns, and because they have mall cop syndrome and think knowing swordfighting makes them a badass. Also a lot of HEMA and LARP-type meetups (national ones) are hotbeds of degeneracy as bad as comic conventions.