01-15-2006, 11:41 PM
I'm in a small fringe of the re-enactment world so this may be typical of small groups. We have no women. The only two who ever expressed any interest wanted to be "Ceopatera", or a "patrician lady". No one had any interest in being the other 99% of Roman society, and stated this.
This said, we do welcome women in any impression that does not break preference against the "all patricians and no peasant scum" rule of thumb. Individuals who have physical limitations are also welcome, and can expect full cooperation of the entire group (all three of us), to help provide a suitable impression. There is a common sense threshold when handling weapons of any sort. In this, minors are excluded with one excepted incidence, while making a film, that did have insurance coverage.
In another forum it was noted that historically, no women were known in the Roman war machine. There were instances where Roman men dressed and behaved as women, however. Simple. Have any women re-enactor do an impression of a man pretending to be a woman.
Gaius Decius Aquilius
(Ralph Izard)
This said, we do welcome women in any impression that does not break preference against the "all patricians and no peasant scum" rule of thumb. Individuals who have physical limitations are also welcome, and can expect full cooperation of the entire group (all three of us), to help provide a suitable impression. There is a common sense threshold when handling weapons of any sort. In this, minors are excluded with one excepted incidence, while making a film, that did have insurance coverage.
In another forum it was noted that historically, no women were known in the Roman war machine. There were instances where Roman men dressed and behaved as women, however. Simple. Have any women re-enactor do an impression of a man pretending to be a woman.
Gaius Decius Aquilius
(Ralph Izard)
