A dude from my reenactment unit gets asked to do a movie, and I don’t? Let me remind you said dude is overweight with a farby ill-fitting uniform, and I have a nice kit (albeit two pieces of loner gear) and yet I can manage to look like a dude? And how I get flak for being able to go to some…
This is something I want to address myself. Now as said above WWII Reenacting is more or less a “boys club”, partly from the majority of fighting (not to take away from WASP, Nurses and other Women services who service was invaluable in the war or Soviet women who fought) was done by men. The bigoted attitudes from male reenactors (usually guys who are FAR from looking like those who participated in the hostilities) are becoming more and more of a problem as it becomes more popular (never thought I’d say that in my lifetime) for women to participate in the fun of reenacting. It really ticks me off that these ham-hock looking fat-fucks who are in uniforms that are in sizes that were never made (outside of Goring and a handful of other higher-ups) have the gal and tenacity to to talk down a female reenactor (who usually is more informed on the unit they portray) and pass her off as a novelty. Personally speaking I think it is more or less some “Mommy hurt me” or their disdain at the fact they suck at life and reenacting is their only outlet in which they feel ‘cool’. Fucking really, if you’re a REAL man, you are secure and not worried about what others think.
Fucking pathetic if you ask me.
