The first three minutes of having to listen to the first bromo saying "like, she was like, then I was like, and like, she was like" had me wanting to drink bleach.
Oh well, at least you bromos aren't putting plastic on the ground and having orgies like the furries. Still, you are fascinated by something that 8-12 year old girls are into. Good luck with that.
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I'd be worried if my 12 year old was into this.
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Good for you for judging your child based on whether they do or don't like a popular television show.
For the record, if you've ever actually gone to a furry forum or talked to people who consider themselves furries, you'd learn that for a large portion, the interest isn't sexual at all (and many aren't interested in fur suits). But that's boring, so the sexual aspect became the stereotype for all of them.
Although to be fair, many fetishes exist, and as long as no living thing is getting hurt, there isn't a thing about it that makes me uncomfortable. What harm does it do me how other people have sex?
Because that sex is extremely strange, borderline deviant, behavior. Other forms of strange, deviant sexual behavior are: pedophilia; beastiality; clopping (that's when these bronies masturbate to pornographic parodies of the show). Are these things okay with you. Do they make you uncomfortable?
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and as long as no living thing is getting hurt
Would you rather your 12 year old be into sparkly vampire orgies?
Or Klingons?
Or Jabba the Hut (those people exist...)
Honestly, every fandom has 'those people'.
I can deduce that you've never seen the horrible Harry Potter fanfics putting Harry and Voldemort in a romantic relationship.
I'm just going to re-post what I posted on another thread.
Also... I'm currently watching this documentary for fun on Netflix. Honestly, I thought about why some people (men) would find this offensive, after the film touched on personal attacks towards individual fans. I think it's because it poses a kind of threat to the idea of masculinity and being a man. Funny... you don't get this kind of reception when it comes to anything that might threaten the idea of femininity - at least not to my knowledge. And this whole statement coming from someone who is far removed from the bra-burning feminists.
Here's the thing. I saw the show when I was a kid, I liked it as much as the other cartoons growing up, but it isn't a personal favourite. Any regard I have for the show is out of nostalgia and sentimentality. I honestly did not know about the current new version of this cartoon. That was interesting, at least to me...
But even now, at this age, I watch tons of TV and films that are generally marked as or set up to be marketed as boys/ male oriented, and I enjoy these immensely. TV shows or films (etc.) spanning from USA, UK, Japan, Korea and Philippines. Some specific examples, I love Batman, Gambit and Storm. They're my favourite comic book characters - two of them are male. Just because I'm a girl mean I can't like them? Screw you if you think I have no right to like them.
I love shonen (boys) anime/ manga as much as I love shoujo (girl) animes/ manga. I also play games and I particularly like RPGs and fighting games such as Tekken and Street Fighter. And I'm not alone in this. At the same time, I'm straight and fancy the pants off any men I find attractive. But I also enjoy kicking their ass in games like Tekken. Point is - this isn't an unusual thing. You don't see people making such a fuss over this. For a long time now there's been a growing surge of female comic book fans. Sure, occasionally you get the woman hating on other woman. But it's very rare...
So what's the difference? Like I said, I think it comes down to being seen as a threat to masculinity.
Never been to any comic-cons or seen a lot of cosplayers then huh? I've not been to comic-cons as big as the ones in the USA or in Japan, for example. But I've seen a couple of cosplays. Some of these are women or girls dressing up as men and yet, oddly, most viewers (particularly men) find them attractive (evident from my male friends and some male comments on various sites).
And like I posted on this thread, I happen to love a lot of shows and films that were probably initially set out as male oriented. But, I love them nonetheless and continue to watch these. Does that make me gay or a threat to my sex? No. Am I uncommon? No. So, why is different when it comes to guys?
They're austistic mate. That's why they're a bit awkward socially.
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