I've decided that everyone is crazy if you just get to know them well enough. Even the most "normal" people are completely irrational about something, you just have to find out what it is.


I admit I saw part of the "medieval" episode (I don't watch it regularly, don't worry). I don't know that I'd call them reenactors--those were some dog-ugly costumes. If that was part of that mom's homeschool program, I'd worry about her kids' education.

I don't know much about SCA people on the whole. The few I've known were mostly sort of new-age types with a sketchy grip on historical accuracy (this would probably fall under the "loonies" heading), but they may not have been representative of SCA as a group. The SCA kids at my college used to brew mead in their dorm rooms. I've done Texas history and Civil War reenacting and they run the gamut from frightening civilian-militia gun nuts to frighteningly intense experts; I've never known anyone who did both and I seem to recall that most of the CW guys thought the SCA was a great source of laughs. Maybe it depends on the personalities of the people who make up a particular group?