Fah. You should not have to apologize for other people in your reasonable subgroup who act like idiots. To draw an extreme example, that is along similar lines (though obviously a significantly lesser extent) like asking or expecting Muslims to constantly be apologizing for the fact that some extremists do terrible things.
Mostly I just ignore them. Means I wind up chatting primarily with gentlemen who've decades on me, but they're full of interesting stories about costuming and re-enactment, so that's okay.
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on 2011-02-20 03:21 pm (UTC)Mostly I just ignore them. Means I wind up chatting primarily with gentlemen who've decades on me, but they're full of interesting stories about costuming and re-enactment, so that's okay.
~Sor