[Discussion] parent's reaction when they saw you liked Yaoi?

[Valcie]

Haha, I really don't want them to find out... but I think my mom knows...
I hope not. sweatdrop
My mom's bi, or so she says, so she probably wouldn't be to worried, and she'd probably say "Its not like they're doing anything about it" But I don't really know my mom well enough to guess what she would do. Thats what she told my stepdad when he saw the adult romance books she'd been letting me and my sister read since we were in... 4th grade?
Now, my stepdad, on the other hand, would probably have a heart attack. He'd be screaming his head off, going "WHAT THE F*** IS THIS S***" then clutch his heart and fall to the ground. We aren't supposed to upset him and my mom 'cause mom has really bad panic attacks and stuff, and dad just isn't healthy... so I don't plan on telling them.

My brother if ok with it, I think. I'm pretty sure he only talks about it 'cause he's always trying to fit in with me and my sister, though.

My sister is the one who introduced me to it. ^^ So she's cool.

My step sister is fine with it.

I haven't told my step brothers...

And my grandma would probably be all e.0 "Eww, no."

Most of my friends either like this or Yuri, so I'm safe with them.  

[BlackBleedingRoses539]

umm... my parents don't know... my mother knows I'm bi, but my father doesn't and after her reaction ("well, my greatest hope for your situation is that you end up with a boy and not a girl" gonk ) I'm too afraid to tell either of them about my yaoi obsesson.  

[SungJewel]

I'm not sure if my parents know. I know my friend tried telling my dad before...many times before but I don't think he understood it at all... so as far I know. My Yaoi obseesion is still a secret...despite the fact they saw me reading a yaoi.... confused Well if they know, there not saying anything...  

[Kurai Amaya]

A few years ago, my brother thought it would be funny if he told my mom, "Caleigh likes watching gay sex!" he didn't even know I actually did like yaoi, he was just doing it as a joke, but my mom took it seriously.
She yelled at me, and I denied it, of course. She wasn't upset that I like gay guys or anything, just upset that she thought I watched porn. I was only about 12 at the time... so... *16 now*

Since then, she just basically knows that I read BL romance and stuff. Of course she's not going to know I look at hardcore stuff... she just basically knows I read stories where boys fall in love every now and then and that I think Harry and Draco belong together. Haha.

My little sister, who is 13, is either neutral to it, or likes BL a bit herself. She thinks John Lennon and Paul McCartney should have been together and such... sooo...

I never talk to my dad (lol divorced parents) so he'd never know anyways. xD

My brother doesn't really know, I don't think.

And I don't think my friends would really care, but I still don't want to tell them. My boyfriend knows, of course. I think he knows everything about me. He really doesn't care. He's a Christian (I am agnostic), but he's very kind and has no problem with homosexuality whatsoever.

 

[Vermilione]

Hmm..

Well, actually my mum & pa'pa have no idea..
I can't tell them my sexuality either because my mum
suspected me because she caught me on the phone
with this guy asking me out.. she asked me into her room
confronting me about it, & said that it was disgusting & that I was a monster.

I starting crying & told her I wasn't, then she said,

"Oh thank God." Then hugged me. You have no idea how much
I wanted to slap her D ;<

Stupid-- AGH.

Idiot.

~Vermilion  

[OrganizationOatmeal]

*grins widely*
My parents don't know, though they do have a suspicion..which I will not confirm.
The only reason they even think I do is because my best friend.... stare ....we had decided to keep all the yaoi we had printed off the interent in a large folder and then she left in the living room and my mom found it.
My mom was like: evil WHAT'S THIS?
I was like: eek sweatdrop
It was pretty bad.
I then made her keep the folder at her house, where it still resides, for all I know. *shrugs* I've had to pretend that I have no idea what yaoi is since then.
My friend Sammy told her parents yaoi was a Japanese vegetable. XD I admire that only because it actually worked and they believed her.  

[Pawn Of Ace - - x]

Once there was a darkness,
a deep and endless night,
you gave me everything you had
and oh,
you gave me light

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well no one here really has proof that i like yaoi. but i'm sure that somehow they would get hints.
i used to show a bunch of yaoi and shounen ai pics to my little sister. as well as told her once about an amazing doujin i found.
she uses that stuff against me, however, and tells mostly my mom and uncle about it.
they just look at me like: "what the hell is she talking about!? is there something you would like to tell us??"
ha and i would just give them my most bored/serious face and say "dude. i have no idea what she's talking about."
then my mom would glare at me for a long time and just walk away. lol. sweatdrop
yeah i hated those awkward moments. recently i've told my mom about me having a a strong liking towards real life gay guys.
haha she looks at me like i have lobsters coming out of my ears.

 

[Sieffre]

My mum totally knows. She even watches the non-anime stuff with me (she hates animation).

When I told her, I was all nervous and stuff. "Mum, can I tell you something?"
And she doesn't even look at me. She just keeps reading and is all "what."
"I like shonen-ai." redface
She still keeps reading. "What's that."
"Um um um, it's means boys love."
Still reading. "So you like boys."
"No, um um um it means I like boys who like boys."
"'k." She's still reading. I stand there for like a minute and then go to my room.  

[Ellen Watermellen]

My mom walked in on me looking at yaoi of Harry Potter (Harry/Draco)
She was like 'WHAT THE ******** IS THAT!'
I was like 'It's yaoi.'
She was like 'I don't approve of that.'
Then once when I was watching Laverne and Shirley with her, I accidentally blurted out 'I just pictured Lenny and Squiggy kissing.'
Then she was like 'I TOLD YOU I DON'T LIKE THAT STUFF!'
A few weeks later she's not homophobic anymore and she thinks Laverne and Shirley look cute together or whatever. I can't believe that show 'cured' her of her homophobia!

My mom said she wanted to talk to my dad.
My dad was like 'What is it Dolores?'
My mom was like 'I just thought I would let you know Ellen thinks it's hot when guys make out with other guys.'
My dad didn't say anything. He just walked away and didn't talk to me for a week.
He's still homophobic.

smile

 

[Maple Evening]

Since I'm a mangaholic My mother just rolls her eyes at my overflowing shelf permeated with sections of BL but those occurrences are few and far between as I have my own place.
She first found out that I was writing boy love stories way back in the early days of high school when she saw me sitting down and writing at the kitchen table.
"Are you doing home work hun?"
"No, already finished, writing a story with a friend."
Since I wasn't the most scholastic of teens the fact that I was stringing words together on paper in a sensible fashion at length, and no one had a gun to my head, she was extremely pleased.
"What are you writing about?" She'd ask.
"Two guys that meet at a bowling ally."
"Do they become friends or are they going to fight?
"No, they meet up and later make out." I said it without even thinking.
Her hands paused in the middle of skinning a chicken, an eyebrow creeping slowly higher up her forehead. A battle raging in her head -her precious and only daughter was writing homoerotic - but - her daughter who abhors English class is writing of her own free will. While our eyes were locked for a long awkward pause she was the first to break the silence.
"Don't forget to intent when you start a new paragraph hun." And she went back to making dinner.

I don't know why but I've always found it easiest to write steamy scenes while sitting down at the kitchen table ever since.