Do you ever regret it?

[MorDeSomn]

Why regret it? There will always be someone who doesn't like what you like. Just don't take every comment personally.  

[Total Darkness]

In some ways, I do regret my liking of BL, since it is something my parents don't really appreciate and it's a pain in the a** to keep it under wraps. Around my friends, I don't have that stress.

Had I not gotten into it, I wouldn't have to hide it from them, but I suppose all teenagers have to have something that is for only them to know and keep from their parents. XD

Other than that, I don't regret it at all. It entertains me and that's good enough, isn't it?  

[shield_bug]

I'm not ashamed as such......it really depends on how I'm feeling. If I'm in a hyper mood I'll quiter happily rant over who's the best yaoi couple, etc. to my friends (despite the fact that they have no idea who anyone is) but if I'm feeling more.....subdued.....I'll get embarassed and just sort of mumble about it.....I don't mind my friends knowing I just don't want them to assume that I'm gay or a dirty pervert because I'm not....

Fortunately my parents are okay with it. My dad says that he doesn't like gays (despite having a gay friend). He says they're not bad people but they're straying from God......he's not overly religious or anything that's just what he says if you start talking about it deeply with him. XD My mum doesn't mind. Mind you, I've only shown them shounen-ai stuff and commented on how I think so-and-so make a cute couple so far.....


Like a year or two ago when I was just getting into yaoi my mum came in asked me if I new what yaoi was because she'd been watching Jonathan Ross and he was talking about it and she was worried because it was 'scary and targeting young girls like me'. I was just sorta "oh yeah, I've heard of that..." and then I felt awkward for the rest of the day. =/ But I've changed since then.  

[anime_kitty_8791]

i've never regreted it. mind you, i always try to keep it hidden from my parents because if i tell them then my dad'll just have another excuse to question what i'm doing. my mom doesn't mind me liking anime, so i dont' mind her, but she's always around my dad, so it's kinda awkward that way. sweatdrop
anyway, i like yaoi. i mainly talk about it with two of my friends though because they're both really into it. of course it's never the 2 of them at the same time because they don't even know eachother, but still. i'm not the least bit ashamed of it. it's a little embaressing/funny sometimes, but just the way we start acting all excited and people start staring at us like we're ondrugs or something. rofl  

[User_2629207]

MissEdwardElric

i've never regreted it. mind you, i always try to keep it hidden from my parents because if i tell them then my dad'll just have another excuse to question what i'm doing. my mom doesn't mind me liking anime, so i dont' mind her, but she's always around my dad, so it's kinda awkward that way. sweatdrop
anyway, i like yaoi. i mainly talk about it with two of my friends though because they're both really into it. of course it's never the 2 of them at the same time because they don't even know eachother, but still. i'm not the least bit ashamed of it. it's a little embaressing/funny sometimes, but just the way we start acting all excited and people start staring at us like we're ondrugs or something. rofl

Fwoosh!

:3 You should introduce your two friends to each other. I'm sure they'd be glad to make a new friend~ The more the merrier! <3

POW!

 

[iKaede Fuyou]

Probably a while back I thought it was weird that I liked Yaoi/BL, Now it doesn't bother me and I'm happy I got into it. ^^

Oh, and my mom doesn't know. I think she'll flip and think I'm weird(Even though she's not a homophobe)

 

[Kalysia]

retice

So, do you ever regret it? Or does it give you the opposite feeling -- pride, knowing you're this much more open minded than the people who knock it? surprised

Pride, definitely pride. Being from Vermont, I grew up around a lot of ignorance, which is unfortunate. My own household has always been a very open-minded environment, so, when I came upon yaoi at about age eleven, I was not at-all surprised, shocked, or disgusted. In fact, I jumped right into it, (so-to-speak). Now, yaoi is a major part of my life, (both as a hobby - drawing, and, such - and, in the written and drawn works that I sell, and, have published), and, I have never, and, shall never regret becoming 'involved' with it. 3nodding heart  

[Lum Cheng]

I don't regret loving shonen-ai/yaoi for any reason other than the depletion of the money in my wallet. biggrin  

[lawliet-senpai]

I don't regret getting into yaoi sometimes I feel a little guilty about a show I've just watched (sensitive pornography, and other hard core yaois) and I'll think in my head for a day or two, "Geez, I shouldn't have watched that.." but I get over it. but if i hadnt of gotten into yaoi i wouldn't have met some of my friends and the world just seems better with yaoi, doesn't it? 3nodding  

[Hal B Noire]

Nope. I've said this like a million times before on many threads, but I'll say it again. Girls liking yaoi is no different to boys liking girl on girl porn stuff. People think it's 'normal' for boys to let off some sexual hormones by looking at porn, but what about the girls? Do they honestly think that girls are not sexual creatures by nature? And that they should be completely prude and indifferent to it? Well I say bull to all that! scream girls do not need to act as if their urges should need suppressing and that boys should be left scott free. It's not like there are girls who are always comfortable when their guy/guy friend drooling over girl on girl action whenever they see it, so I also consider this a taste of their own medicine.

Plus it's not like they can do anything about this, because its popularity is steadily rising, and will eventually become something of a common interest for women.

It's true that I was ashamed of having this guilty pleasure for a while, and I do still keep this to myself for the courtesy of others who may not be comfortable with it, but I don't regret watching or reading it at all.  

[Hal B Noire]

Lum Cheng

I don't regret loving shonen-ai/yaoi for any reason other than the depletion of the money in my wallet. biggrin

Thus sweet internet has saved me many times...although I would just like one Yaoi Anime/Manga to have around for me to enjoy. mrgreen  

[Lum Cheng]

Halcyon100

Lum Cheng

I don't regret loving shonen-ai/yaoi for any reason other than the depletion of the money in my wallet. biggrin

Thus sweet internet has saved me many times...although I would just like one Yaoi Anime/Manga to have around for me to enjoy. mrgreen

True, the internet is very useful - I visit scanlation sites on occasion - but there's nothing quite like having the book in your hands for me. That's one of my big downfalls. Unfortunately, another problem I have found is that there are some doujinshi that are nigh impossible to find online, so I shop at the local con every year (and usually blow about half my dealer's room budget in the process).  

[Hal B Noire]

Lum Cheng

Halcyon100

Lum Cheng

I don't regret loving shonen-ai/yaoi for any reason other than the depletion of the money in my wallet. biggrin

Thus sweet internet has saved me many times...although I would just like one Yaoi Anime/Manga to have around for me to enjoy. mrgreen

True, the internet is very useful - I visit scanlation sites on occasion - but there's nothing quite like having the book in your hands for me. That's one of my big downfalls. Unfortunately, another problem I have found is that there are some doujinshi that are nigh impossible to find online, so I shop at the local con every year (and usually blow about half my dealer's room budget in the process).

Exactly my point. I want to watch it on my own TV or have it in my hand instead of on the computer for once. And yeah doujinshi's are tricky businesses, I'd like to get one from a con myself if I could get the chance.  

[Erie-danna]

Oddly enough, I've been a yaoi fan since I was eleven, and I only just started regretting it in the last few weeks.

I was talking about anime with my mom and happened to mention the word yaoi, and she asked me what it was. So, I said "Oh, yaoi is just boys hugging and kissing in romance manga" (I conveniently left out the part about gay smex). Apparently, she later told my dad that I was looking at gay porn and told me that I had an unhealthy obsession (I don't even own any yaoi manga!), and they both started treating me with constant suspicion.

I was suppose to go to my first anime convention with my friend for her sixteenth birthday the next week, but they said I couldn't go because of my "yaoi problem" and they threatened to ban me from going on the internet. The weird things is, they're both very liberal and I used to even be able to show my mom my favorite yaoi couples while she voted on which were the cutest. I still have no idea why they got weird about it all of a sudden.  

[Lady Gyrfalcon]

@ChibiChew: That's really quite odd. O.O

As for me, I have no regrets. Why should I, really. mrgreen
Sure, I haven't told my parents, but even so, I'll probably be fine, as I will and can dredge up things I've remembered where they've been perfectly fine going to movies or whatever with homosexual themes. ( My mother went to Brokeback Mountain, whilst my dad seemed to have no trouble with the mentions of a lesbian couple in V for Vendetta. ) And my parents are pretty easy-going.
I've never looked at the actual section of BL/Yaoi/whatever that's over Older Teen (16+) rated. So technically I haven't been looking at things that they could object to on grounds of age.

I can't change the opinion of those around me easily, but I've made my stance known to my friends. 3nodding I got tired of dodging around them. *Sigh.* It's very amusing to see how they react to things I say, but that's because I tend to have a slight sadistic streak when it comes to messing with their heads.