Defense

[Ranchangirl]

I'm so angry! Some girls in my third hour began making fun of my "Conan obsession" and I totally choked.
It's not 'some stupid old program that's been around for centuries".  I like it because I like it.  I've never had to defend it before.  Those witches must be from the Black Org.

[yamiangie]

you should point out in the time it takes a shonen action hero to defeat one bad guy, Conan has sent 3 criminals to jail.  The lack of annoying flashbacks that take chapters to establish characterization for someone's action in a chapter.

[Aokochan]

*hugs ranchangirl* Don't listen to those girls! It's normal that people doesn't like the same things, but that doesn't mean that because they don't like Conan, it's bad if you like it! Even my father likes Detective Conan! It's a very good program, but if they make fun of you because you like it, just don't be angry, because that's what they want! Just don't pay attention to what they said and that's it! (sorry if you didn't understand me, sometimes I find it difficult to say things in English)

[kkslider5552000]

what type of asshole would make fun of someone for watching a shonen anime when they are nerdy enough to know it exists and has been around forever?

*goes to make fun of Inuyasha fans*

[sonoci]

Well, some people must certainly be bored or lacking self-confidence if they want to make fun of someone's opinion -_-

"Hey, I just heard you like the color green. PFT, that's so dumb. Ahahahahaha, heehee, look at me, I'm being a jerk! : D"

If they were reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally jerks about it, I'd definitely think something like "Wait, you don't like it? OH maaan, I've definitely gotta love it more now! I've got to distance myself from being like you as much as I can. Don't want to be a jerk, do I? : D *twitch*"


...*cough* ...Sorry, I get b***** when I'm annoyed at the actions of people -_- Anyway, don't worry about what those girls think. From the sounds of it, they aren't worth your time. :/

[IHKF]

*Shrugs* Kill with kindness.

[miikosan]

In any case, those girls probably don't know what's good for them. So ignore them and move on. Don't let the things people say get you down 

[MaitreDétective]

I know what you feel. Some guys at my school make fun of me, who is 18, because I watch Inazuma Eleven, an anime for 8-14 kids

[kkslider5552000]

You should do what I did to Twilight fangirls.

Write somewhere where others can read that fans of something they like also enjoy incest. (and that's not a weird joke, that actually happened)

[Chekhov MacGuffin]

"I like mystery shows like Conan because it is fun and challenging to try to figure out the puzzles. I like it better than other shows which aren't clever and you don't have to think about anything while watching them."

Unless the girls want to claim it is more fun mindlessly staring at the tube, this is a hard one to rebut. Don't underestimate people though.

[kyuuketsuki]

Someone said (a writer iirc) something along these lines...

Being an adult does not mean leaving childish things behind, but rather embracing the things you enjoy because you no longer need to prove your adulthood to anyone. (Basically he was saying if you need to think what makes you look more like an adult you are obviously still a child)

Basically you don't need to defend it. Let them think what they please. In the end you'll still enjoy it and be the mature party while they are stuck in their immaturity worrying how to seem more like an adult. And to an adult's eyes that is quite a stern mark of immaturity (at least to me it is)

My current defense for enjoying MLP:FiM is "*shrug* it's a good show, and I enjoy it." If they have a problem with it, it has nothing to do with me and everything to do with them.

[Philoux]

Someone said (a writer iirc) something along these lines...

Being an adult does not mean leaving childish things behind, but rather embracing the things you enjoy because you no longer need to prove your adulthood to anyone. (Basically he was saying if you need to think what makes you look more like an adult you are obviously still a child)

Basically you don't need to defend it. Let them think what they please. In the end you'll still enjoy it and be the mature party while they are stuck in their immaturity worrying how to seem more like an adult. And to an adult's eyes that is quite a stern mark of immaturity (at least to me it is)

My current defense for enjoying MLP:FiM is "*shrug* it's a good show, and I enjoy it." If they have a problem with it, it has nothing to do with me and everything to do with them.

I think you are referring to C. S. Lewis:

"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."

[Chekhov MacGuffin]

If anyone thinks DC is childish, remind them that in the first episode someone gets decapitated and the head almost hits a group of first graders.

[kyuuketsuki]

Someone said (a writer iirc) something along these lines...

Being an adult does not mean leaving childish things behind, but rather embracing the things you enjoy because you no longer need to prove your adulthood to anyone. (Basically he was saying if you need to think what makes you look more like an adult you are obviously still a child)

Basically you don't need to defend it. Let them think what they please. In the end you'll still enjoy it and be the mature party while they are stuck in their immaturity worrying how to seem more like an adult. And to an adult's eyes that is quite a stern mark of immaturity (at least to me it is)

My current defense for enjoying MLP:FiM is "*shrug* it's a good show, and I enjoy it." If they have a problem with it, it has nothing to do with me and everything to do with them.

I think you are referring to C. S. Lewis:

"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."

I thought it was cs Lewis, but wasn't sure. But yeah... there you have it.

If anyone thinks DC is childish, remind them that in the first episode someone gets decapitated and the head almost hits a group of first graders.

Even despite that chek, it is a stigma a lot of animated shows deal with save a few. It is the perception of the medium having never seen it the show in question.

It is unfortunate too, because there are plenty of animated shows that can be enjoyed regardless of age.

[Stopwatch]

Yeah...


...had to link it :x