[ SECRET POST #981 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #981 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 21 pages, 506 secrets from Secret Submission Post #141.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 - doing it wrong ], [ 1 - take it to comments ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 - empty comments ], [ 1 2 - deleted for wank ].
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Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

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[blueutopiah.livejournal.com]

Fuck them. Like what you like. People who immediately label you as a weeaboo aren't worth knowing anyway. What are they into that's so much better? And honestly, if it wasn't anime, they'd judge you for something else; like I said: not worth knowing. Do not be ashamed of your interests.

[post-position.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I get that feeling too Anon. I don't tell people I'm into anime when I talk about being interested in going to Japan to teach English, and eventually writing my thesis in Japanese history. I want to be taken seriously about my goals and not brushed off.

[numb3r-5ev3n.livejournal.com]

A-fucking-men. The people who just squawk "WEEABOO" when they see anyone who is Japanese-influenced or into Japanese fandoms are henceforth no longer allowed to like or follow any fandom from any other nation or culture, ever. Because they obviously just want to pretend they are from that other culture/nation if their own logic holds true, right?

[mekkio.livejournal.com]

I think you can. To me you cross the line of being a "weeaboo" when you think only things that come from Japan are good and everything else is inferior. Like you refuse to read any comics unless they are manga. Or you'll won't watch anything animated unless it's anime. Then you've crossed the Rubicon into weeaboodom.

But liking those things shouldn't be a scarlet letter on your social life.

[mollyandfriends.livejournal.com]

Wow, I feel that way too anon. I hesitate to tell people I'm into anime (or anything related),because I get all kinds of flak. From people who call me a weeboo, to those who think it weird that there's a girl over in the anime section =(. There are even those that bother me by telling me too old to be watching "cartoons".

I feel your pain Anon. Screw those people.

[(Anonymous)]

Be who you are and like what you like. Fuck everyone else. - M. Shadows

[mongoliabun.livejournal.com]

Definitely in that same boat, anon. I try not to tell people what I actually want to do with my life, which is translate anime and manga for a living, because it seems like people (my family especially) think that it's a job not worth doing, that I should be doing something more practical and productive with my life. It got to the point where I was almost ready to just change my major because I'm actually very insecure about the "weeaboo factor" too but there are always going to be haters and lablers no matter what you do so the best thing is to just say to hell with people who don't want to know you for who you are and to keep trudging on liking what you like. As someone said above: don't be ashamed of your interests.

[foofighter0234.livejournal.com]

Fuck them. Like what YOU like.

[mutantjules.livejournal.com]

Fuck that shit. Like what you like and apologize to no one.

[ariseishirou.livejournal.com]

Tell people you're a weeaboo right out of the gate.

I do it all the time. It's all about attitude - if you're mature, well-spoken, and as critical of Japan as you are in love with it, no one will care. If, on the other hand, you wear sweat-stained T-shirts with mecha on them and speak only in fangirl Japanese about how magical and wonderful that country is, it doesn't matter how fervently you deny the fact that you're a weeaboo. Everyone already knows.

The point isn't that you're in love with Japan, as a weeaboo, it's that you won't talk about anything else and wind up annoying the shit out of everyone else. If you're not like that, you're not really a weeaboo.

(It is a secret, horrible guilty pleasure of mine to talk to early-stage weeaboos who try to impress people with the handful of words they know, especially if I can get them to say "yeah I speak Japanese!". At which point my face will light up and I will reply a rapid-fire ええ本当ですか。お上手ですよね！どのぐらい勉強してますか。 At which point they invariably stammer, turn red, and grudgingly admit that they really don't speak much Japanese. It brings warmth to my cold, black, bitter soul. Oh, that and telling them about the Nihonjinron.)

[kidscrappy.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way. I never wanted to tell people I like anime because I tought that they might think less of me. Especially when I was still taking Japanese class.
But recently, a friend of mine has started knocking some sense into me. Telling me I should be proud of the things I like and there's no reason to be ashamed. People won't like you less for it.

You know what the best part is? She's right.

[ketita.livejournal.com]

I'm an East Asian Studies major, as well, and I'm also into anime (though, I'm doing both Chinese and Japanese). Fuck those people, and do what you want with your life :) You're the one who has to live it, in the end.

[dbzmerciter2005.livejournal.com]

Ugh, ignore 'em. If you genuinely like Japan, anime, and manga, so be it. It's when you think that Japan > All that you turn into a weaboo.

I'm saying this as a Japanese Languages & Asian Studies major, so OP I completely understand.

本当に、本当に分かります。

[unsquared.livejournal.com]

I can relate. I'm reluctant to "admit" that I'm into animanga, even when it isn't really anything to be ashamed of.

The other day I saw someone with Hetalia buttons on her backpack. I kind of regret not striking up a conversation with her, even if I'm not into that show. I also saw someone wearing a sailor uniform but...didn't want to presume.

[(Anonymous)]

You'll meet assholes, idiots, and boring people no matter who you're pretending to be, but you'll never met anyone you're actually compatiable with if you're lying about the settings you know? I'm sort of the in the same boat, I love comics from every country, but Japan reads the most of them...so... Japanese major. I fucking love being white though, I'd never want to be Asian :/

[t3h-toby-chan.livejournal.com]

Actually, the weeaboo-shaming tendencies of fandom critics were one of my first introductions to criticism of cultural appropriation, which I had never really had a concept of prior to my preteen years. Long before anime, I grew up 'interested' in many cultures of which I had only a shallow understanding (or no understanding at all) and didn't realize that my imitation and/or idolization of a self-edited version of someone else's actual culture, especially if based on a fictional book or movie or brief educational spots on Sesame Street, could be offensive.


I'm really glad that there's criticism of the shallow idolatry of a fabricated fantasy-vision of Japanese culture. Because I had that view of Japanese, and indeed a lot of other cultures, and probably would have gone the way of the standard weeaboo if that fangirlism were allowed to go unchecked.


So while I understand what you mean, and am also hesitant to mention my love of anime for that reason, I can't bring myself entirely against it. I think, or at least hope, that my own sane and self-aware behavior will speak for itself on the matter, and I think yours will too.

[la-petite-singe.livejournal.com]

I do this--judge non-Japanese people who are reallyreally into the culture for anime-related reasons--and I feel kinda bad about it. Who cares why you like something? You're not offending anyone. I gotta stop. :\

[xenafox.livejournal.com]

That is really unfortunate. Weeaboos get on my nerves, but I know how to tell a crazed anime fan between someone who...well may be a crazed anime fan, but is genuinely interested in the culture.

[childings.livejournal.com]

The term basically has no meaning anymore. So I wouldn't worry about it

[snowdevil-crow.livejournal.com]

... I know how you feel. *hugs anon* It's so stupid that liking anime and/or being legitimately interested in Japanese culture is such a looked-down on thing...

[hakushaku-sama.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I think a lot of Japanese are flattered that someone over here would take the time to get to know them as a people better. I wore my "now accepting applications for a Japanese boyfriend" (it's in Japanese, of course) one day, and a handful of Japanese tourists walked by and had a little squee fit, then asked for a picture with me! I hope someday you'll have a similar experience! :D

[flipthefrog.livejournal.com]

EAS majors represent, yo. (Even if I'm modern Chinese lit and not Japanese.)

Like someone else further up in the thread said already, there's a certain attitude that comes with being a weeaboo that you probably lack. I, too, look down on people who have their entire backpacks covered in buttons proclaiming their love for yaoi. It's unfortunate that people in this major get associated with that kind of idiot, but it's not hard to distance yourself through your actions.

[http://users.livejournal.com/kasumi_/]

Oh my god, that tshirt will never be not creepy.

[birdboy2000.livejournal.com]

The word "weeaboo" is moronic, and using it seriously is a major sign that I should disregard everything you have to say. Insofar as it describes any actual people (as opposed to enormous strawmen) they're n00b fans who will grow out of it in a year or two.

And I say this as an anime otaku and japanophile for a decade and counting.