Why do people get flack for liking Anime?
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A lot of you will probably think "Oh my god, why do people make this a thing? No one really cares whether you like it or not, you're being dramatic" or something like that, but no, oh no, this is actually a thing among people, in my experience its usually in high school and college you'll get most of the flack.
Even now as a university student, you get those types of people who are really mainstream, laddy lads, fuckboys, or those MUA girls who have flawless highlight brighter than my future (thank you Jefree)and the sharpest cut-creases ever in the history of makeup fads who probably have a really warped idea, if any idea at all, of what anime is.
My brother is a perfect example, if we ever get into a petty sibling spat or war of words, his go-to insult when he's desperate because for the first time in forever I'm actually reking the fuck out of him and feelin so proud of my sass, is to say "At least I don't like that Japanese shit".
'That Japanese shit'
Definition: When people who don't like and/or have never seen or experienced the pop-culture refer to it.
Literally every single damn time anime comes up I get a dude that refers to it as 'That Japanese shit'. It's Japanese, yes it is, but it's not shit my good sir.
If you're one of those people who are like this ^ then me and many other anime & Japanese pop-culture fans are thinking the same thing as I said in the beginning: Why the hell do you care? Why are you making this such a big deal?
I got into anime when I was going through a dark & isolated time in high school, and it gave me an outlet and made me happier, in short it was just awesome and I loved (almost) everything about it, excluding the weird shit because there definitely is some weird shit in anime.
Ever heard of the term: "Oh, Japan".
I would sit in my form at the beginning of the day and use my time to read some manga, that was my favourite way to pass the time until class started in high school, rather than talk to friends, teachers or do homework (lol).
On my table in my form room sat that group of people at school that partied, got drunk and had sex early and smoked the occassional sliff. The "Laddy lads" and "MUA girls" of my generation. This meant that every single time I wapped out a luscious volume of Blue Exorcist or InuYasha, then I would get questions thrown my way along the lines of:
"Wtf, why are you reading a book backwards?"
"Wtf is that? Is that that weird Japanese shit/thing/stuff << it varied>>?"
"Why are you reading that?"
"Why do you like that stuff, it's so weird. I don't get it"
Followed by a silent me and a lot of giggling and laughing. Just generally them calling me out for reading a book.
It's that simple.
Why the hell do we get so much flack for liking something? I was literally reading a book... Sure, it was a book with a story from Japan in the Japanese book style of reading it from back-to-front, sure it's different from your everyday book, but so what? It's just a different style of book, people read comics all the time that comes from America: Batman, Deadpool, I even saw someone wap out a Dennis the Mennis comic once, ngl.
It's actually like an all out war, you sit in class and wap out anything other than your phone or Twilight and everybody loses their shit.
Why is it so wrong & weird for me to be reading manga in class? Why are you singling me out and making fun of me for something so insignificant? I'm literally reading a book, calm your titties.
I usually just ignore this kind of stuff, I know that not everyone is a fan of anime and Japanese pop-culture, I could see why some people might find it odd just because it's not native to Western culture, so obviously it's new and elicits different reactions to people who have never seen or heard of it before, but why be cruel and just the most basic of bitches to people who like it?
It's not a big deal, it's not us making it a big deal, its you making it a thing.
It's both interesting and annoying to me how some people get so defensive about the things that other people like. If it's not mainstream or familiar then you are called out and made an example of for liking it.
It's so stupid.
I'm done, ty for reading the rant if you did, if you are a fellow otaku and have similar feelings then queen I am with you <3
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