Ya, I was responding more to the guy you were responding to. Whenever this topic comes up he's always like, "What if we posted a sign". It's tiring.
Like I said before, tho, Rennies are usually down to play, IME, but only with other Rennies. They don't want to be picked up at the fair. I've hung with enough faire folk to have heard how much they hate being harassed by the punters.
Is that supposed to be me? If it's so tiring, why respond? But at least this time now, if you're
again feeling enervated, I urge you to please, for the love of God, save your energy for more important matters, and remain silent! Your health comes first!
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I've written here purely about the legal aspects,
not the odds of it happening. I wrote that if paid employees would be the primary lees, but other random people could volunteer if they want to with full awareness, I believe that paradigm would pass legal muster. That has been my main point -- not anything to do with whether or how many Renfaires will do this. Yet it's
as if that's what I wrote, because particular people keep responding to me in contradictory framings about how wrong I am to think this is likely. Huh? I've never written a single word about whether it's likely. I only ever wrote about the issue of civil and criminal exposure if it were designed certain ways. Got it?
It feels like I've said things about pissing in the street being illegal, and several particular people responded several times, "Why are you saying you want to piss in the street?" ?
But okay, I'll finally get dragged into the "odds some faire will do it" mud for the first time, if the room so wants me to. My guess is that there are all kinds of wildly different and unusual people who choose to manage Renfaires, hella non-corporate types. And I doubt anyone here has met or interviewed some large sample size of these managers to allege such absolute clarity as to their instincts... and that these managers could possibly represent a monolith of group think as well... correct me if I'm wrong.
If someone writes, "Yeah, well I personally know 25 Renfaire managers across the U.S. whom I met at the national Renfaire conference, and we all discussed and all agreed on this fetish issue," then I'll stand corrected. But I don't happen to think there's anyone here like that. Predictions don't become more likely because they're stated superciliously. While I really have no idea the odds that some Renfaire, some year in the future, will ever do this kind of thing again, my hunch is the odds aren't zero, simply because of the continuous weirdness factor of the Renfaire world. So to summarize, no I really don't know the odds; but I'm also doubting that anyone else here
knows they're zero either.