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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 1738014" data-attributes="member: 2238">Man, this thread is getting too big...But anyways, Josh- actually I do not think that the woman that was featured on CNN in the jury duty thing was trying to get out of it.  She is also in the documentary Trekkies and in that she shows up at work in the uniform.  She makes people call her by her rank (commander) and apparently is a good manager of a print shop.  Now why does she think she has the right to wear this outfit and go by the name commander?  Well, apparently she is also the "commander" of the local chapter of some Star Trek fan club, which designates its chapters by ship number.  Apparently she takes it too seriously...Galeros- Sure they can wear a costume in public, so long as it is appropriate.  When it becomes inappropritae is when it starts to bother other people.  And there are cases when they can wear a costume and it will bother people.  Like at jury duty.  Say I am a defendant or plaintif.  I see some nut in a starfleet uniform in the jury box.  It makes me worry cause I question her judgement.  I don't wear my rowing uniform to formal occasions.  Its a one piece spandex outfit.  Its only appropritate when I am in the boat.  Wearing it anywhere else will probably offend someone.  In that case I AM bothering them.  Walking to a con in your samurai costume is appropriate.  Going to the opening of a non-sci-fi meuseum, or the symphony in your Bobba Fett costume is not.  And that bothers people.  And depending on the context it does hurt people, in that people that associate with that person are treated like that person.  This is best seen in reactions to Leprosy.  CPM/costume mans presence causes a leper reaction from the rest of the population.  This reaction can be damaging: economicly (CPM and the game store) socially (trekker making a dubious jury) and physically (somtimes serious germs or fear of them).  While the fear may seem irrational, its rooted in the rational. Simply put bad smells and strange dress signify danger in the animal kingdom.  So how do you solve the problem?  Go and try to convice large ammounts of people that their evolutionary instincts are wrong?  Or convince CPM/costume man that his evolutionary instincts are right and he should listen to them?  One is a whole lot less then 7 billion or whatever we are at now. Aaron.</blockquote>

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