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Originally Posted by TegoshiKawaiiDesu
*sigh*
atleast ive tried to watch sponge bob..
thts all im saying.. dont judge it without trying it out..
my friends told me to watch sponge bob bcus i havent been watching tv at all.. thts y i tried to watch it..
thts all my point.
if i try wtever u like, u shud try wt i like and not judge it bfor u watch it.
i didnt judge sponge bob bfor i watched or else i wudnt kno wt the story is mainly about. ive seen the shows, the episodes, and i was actually forced to perform it as a play!
and u say tht im acting just like those other ppl? yes, i may b making fun of another show, but my background is way different. they havent tried watching it at all! and by me saying tht theyve only seen the crappy-way-too-girly ones, i mean theyve seen the comercials...... i heard one of them say "i was watching something and the gayest thing popped up on my television screen! it was called..... fruits basket and the other one was prince of tennis" this guy deffinately didnt watch it since he called it gay, plus, knowing tht this guy is in my class, ive already even [i]confirmed[i] tht he didnt watch it by asking him during school... im not like them
ps im a girl who likes tegoshi. im not a guy
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Tegoshi, you almost got my point. I am not saying you should like Sponge Bob or not like Sponge Bob, or like anime or not like anime.
I am guessing you are a little younger than me, so please take this as a grandfatherly observation, and nothing more.
I can understand being annoyed at "anime discrimination" but the nice thing is that the older you get, the less you have to deal with it.
When I was younger what I liked helped define who I was and who I hung out with. Now that I am out of school and have a family of my own, society defines me more by my job and my marital status than by my hobbies (unlike middle school, high school, and even college). I have friends who are really into sports, but that isn't my interest. I have friends really into wine, which is a so-so interest of mine. I have friends really into cinema and Hollywood gossip, and I have a lot to talk to them about. I don't really have friends into manga and anime (outside the people I have met as a reviewer) and that's OK.
You know what you like and don't like, and that's all that matters.
There are titles I like and those I don't.
For example, I didn't like "Until the Full Moon". I am not into yaoi, yaoi-lite or gender-switching and sexual-ambiguity. It just doesn't appeal to me. I try not to review those kids of titles, but when I do I always try to make an opinion based on the story and presentation, despite my feelings about that genre. (And I always try to say "I am not into yaoi or gender-bending", as I think it shows I am not trying to be, nor can I be, totally unbiased.
That's the long way of saying if you don't want people to make fun of you for what you like, your first counter-argument shouldn't be to make fun of something they like.
The funny thing is your need for a thick-skin is when it's the thinnest in life. And by the time you stop caring about what people think about what you like, people stop caring about what you like, and will like you for you.