Saw the proposal through SCAToday. I agree with you that this is the wrong approach, but it seems like there is a strong 'have the cake and eat it too' background here of trying to acknowledge the problem and do something about it without wading into the political mess of broadening the established peerage. The name ('The Order of the Master of Defense') is inane and seems to come across as of lesser worth than the high virtue of chivalry (we're stuck with that name). But it also coins exactly what is happening. The proposal is a defense against suffering the ongoing slings and arrows, er, rather, foils and schlagers leveled.
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Date: 2014-11-13 02:33 pm (UTC)Oh, and for anyone looking for some backstory to the proposal, see http://eastkingdomgazette.org/2013/09/17/rapier-peerage-proposal-what-is-it/