I have a story about an incident that occurred only a few days ago, but it was more like being disrespected than being bullied. Here's what happened: I was sitting in my dorm, very much enjoying myself, when I hear a knock on the door. Upon opening the door, I see a fellow (let's call him Jim) who I met the night before. We had talked about Pink Floyd and got on fine then. When I greeted him, he told me his iPod was having issues and he needed a computer. So, being the influenced person I am, I obliged to help him.
Literally the moment we went to sit down, he noticed my MLP belt. He asked me in a tone, "why do you have ponies on your belt?" Unless this question was genuine, it seemed very obvious. I politely answered, "because I like ponies." This statement was followed by jim yawning a drawn out, "really?" I knew he was intolerant of bronies. I said, "yes. Are you judging me for a show that I like?" He did say "yes." I told him that wasn't a good thing and that he shouldn't do that. After logging onto my computer, he noticed my Celestia wallpaper. Again, he let out a "really, dude?" This time, I had become irritated. I said in a harsher tone, "get over it, I'm gonna like what I like." This was the last I heard of his complaining.
After the ordeal had ended, I couldn't help but think about his attitude. I did nothing wrong to him, in fact, I was going out of my way to help him. But he was still behaving like a bigoted douche. Had he disrespected me again, he would no longer have been welcomed to my services, and I certainly would not go out of my way to deal with him anymore.
I saw him yesterday and he told me he asked me if I'd seen the Brony documentary. After telling him that I had, he asked me what I thought about it—to which I said that I thought it could have been better (i did feel very inspired after watching it the first time). He told me that, and I'm paraphrasing here, "they went out of their way to find the most disgusting people." Now, I understand that the people they focused on weren't any superstars, but calling them "disgusting" is pretty harsh if you ask me.
The point is that his view of the fandom has been skewed from the beginning and there's really nothing I could do. But I think I handled his rotten attitude pretty well! Anyway, that's my story, and I'm glad to tell whoever has the patience to read it.