VORTIA

Back when I got into anime in the early nineties, that was one of the stock three reactions you got from people when you said you liked anime:

1) You still watch cartoons? What are you, five?

2) You watch those Jap porn toons? What are you, some sort of freak?

3) You watch those Jap toons with the hyper violence? What a nerd.

There's a lot of ill informed people out there, and they just make assumptions based on what they know. I'd go on not letting it bother you. There also seems to be a bit of a double standard developing in anime fandom where Yaoi-fangirls hate all over people who are fans of moe, but can't see that Yaoi is the same sort of self-graftification story-telling. It doesn't help that they tend to get the casual anime fans in on their side (A: because they're girls, and B: because they hate everything that isn't or isn't just like Cowboy Bebop & Dragonball Z) to further alienate the moe fans. Just call 'em out on it. It's one thing to not like it, but that's no reason to be cruel to another person.

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All profiles carry the members age and assuming they filled the registration form out correctly should be accurate. There are members as young as 13 here.

As a general word of warning to those who post in this thread I do not wish to see one liners consisting of your age as the information alone is redundant.