@Adom Jensom If that is a serious question, then I can bring up …

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Comment on “Japanese for Fujoshi” Far From Rotten… by HouseLife:

@Adom Jensom

If that is a serious question, then I can bring up a potential insight.

Recognizing a group as being different is one thing, but by and large the part that is a detriment to the subculture of Otaku is the small minorities who are most vocal. Much like the loudest morons on this board who will so simply declare some game or anime as pure shit without giving merit to its good parts.

You can speak all you wish about not judging people for their social inabilities, but if it came down to you being around said people, you would say the opposite in almost every case, and they don’t want to be around others almost as often.

It’s a self-fulfilling downward spiral where they selfishly believe they’re special and everyone else just ‘doesn’t get it’ while completely ignoring factual, true things about who they are such as hygiene and their attitudes about reality and those around them. It’s all based on psychological wounds from the past, but eventually it’s time to face who you are as a human being.

Put simply, it’s not our job to unfuck them, they have to unfuck themselves. We can help them along the way, but assholes who cling to their assholiness as some form of treasure and then wonder why nobody likes them or enjoys their attention-whoring (or the reverse, seclusion) are shunned by their own devices, not because everyone ‘doesn’t get them.’ So many US High School Otaku are the loudest and most obnoxious people for no good reason, and combine that with their overall lack of knowledge of life in general mixed in with a smug sense of self worth at being ‘outcast’ and you have an asshole on gangly legs.

One can be mature and confident in their fandom without being an asshole about it. I have wall scrolls, figures and more games and anime than nearly all my friends combined and it’s very noticeable around my place, but I’m not known for it. It is a part of me. I can also have back and forth discussions about things I like and dislike without making it somehow gospel, and give things a second look based on other opinions. It’s the people who don’t even give any thought to an opposing opinion who decimate any sense of intelligence or reason to interact with them, and unfortunately, gamers, otaku and teenagers fill out that demographic rather heavily. Combine all three… well that was covered above.

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• “Japanese for Fujoshi” Far From Rotten…:
  

  @ Anon 2:16 As far as I understand the connotation, ‘fujoshi’ essentially means the fanatical female fan who imparts their reality of a series or characters upon others regardless of logic or reason. Kind of like overly religious people and evolution as a concept. As for potential romance between guys, from what I have seen, that tends to annoy us guys because women can be in a friendly relationship with one another and try on bras together. This is not the same for most guys. I understand the …

• “Japanese for Fujoshi” Far From Rotten…:
  

  Fujoshi are delusional about things like girlfriends in obviously yaoi books. Doesn’t matter if they had/have them, in their minds it’s temporary. I’ve mentioned it here before, but years ago a girl I knew insisted all Gundam Wing guys were gay, no matter what. It was on in English on Toonami at the time, and she just kept saying they were all gay. I wasn’t really homophobic I didn’t think, but it just made me really not like watching it with this underlying wondering if they were actually gay …

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  Right. That’s it. I’m out… … But I did laugh pretty damn hard at the three chosen examples’ escalation.

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