My parents want me out of the fandom. I might be saying goodbye someday soon.*

[DoctorWhovian1902 596]

I am in a similar situation. Just 5 minutes ago I was watching S3EP11 and my mom said if people found out they would think I was a child molester or something. But I retain and still watch the show. You shouldn't have to leave the fandom because you feel like your being forced to

 

That's almost exactly what my parents said to me. They were convinced others would think I'm a pedophile or something. I think they've been watching too much Fox News.

 

Then my dad asks me why I roll my eyes at his tastes. I just look at him and almost say "Well, let's think for a second, shall we?"

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

That's almost exactly what my parents said to me. They were convinced others would think I'm a pedophile or something. I think they've been watching too much Fox News.

 

Then my dad asks me why I roll my eyes at his tastes. I just look at him and almost say "Well, let's think for a second, shall we?"

I love my parents they have never done anything wrong to me. It's just that they are kind of naive to my generation and don't get certain things. Back in their day if you were a man who liked the original G1 MLP then you would get stares. This new cartoon is different and people fail to realize that. I tried watching generations 1 through 3 and it never appealed to me. The characters were boring and there were no plots to be found. I want to show my dad the brony documentary so he at least has an understanding of the culture and everything with it.

[Rivet Canterlot Mechanic 63]

Honestly It isn't their choice and they aren't in a position to judge what you do. As long as you don't rub pony related stuff in there faces, what reason do they have to say you can't be a brony. Although if it can cause serious problems ignoring their wishes then maybe you should just humour them for a bit and become a closet brony for a little while.

[DoctorWhovian1902 596]

I love my parents they have never done anything wrong to me. It's just that they are kind of naive to my generation and don't get certain things. Back in their day if you were a man who liked the original G1 MLP then you would get stares. This new cartoon is different and people fail to realize that. I tried watching generations 1 through 3 and it never appealed to me. The characters were boring and there were no plots to be found. I want to show my dad the brony documentary so he at least has an understanding of the culture and everything with it.

 

The problem with doing that, for me at least, is that both he and my mom are going to take that opinion that bronies are the product of 9/11 or something like that, and assume it means we can't deal with reality. Then they'll attack me with that, and their misconceptions, and...that's just it, I can't win. The problem is that if someone whom they consider a "reliable source" suddenly goes against their beliefs, they'll throw them out like trash on Tuesday. It's why, now that I've considered it, if my friend did become a brony, it wouldn't help my cause any.

[Harmonic Revelations 8,835]

The problem with doing that, for me at least, is that both he and my mom are going to take that opinion that bronies are the product of 9/11 or something like that, and assume it means we can't deal with reality. Then they'll attack me with that, and their misconceptions, and...that's just it, I can't win. The problem is that if someone whom they consider a "reliable source" suddenly goes against their beliefs, they'll throw them out like trash on Tuesday. It's why, now that I've considered it, if my friend did become a brony, it wouldn't help my cause any.

If your parents are like that then clearly they aren't able to understand you or make the right decisions about your social life. How can they help you with something they don't understand?

[DoctorWhovian1902 596]

If your parents are like that then clearly they aren't able to understand you or make the right decisions about your social life. How can they help you with something they don't understand?

 

Because they know more than me...on certain subjects, at least. Their logic is fairly simple, as they put it: "We're up here, you're down there."

[Harmonic Revelations 8,835]

Because they know more than me...on certain subjects, at least. Their logic is fairly simple, as they put it: "We're up here, you're down there."

That's just not right. Sure, it makes sense somewhat, but not in perspective. I fail to see the logic in that. If they're unwilling to hear the truth than how are they any higher up? If anything that makes them lower in a clearly unbiased sense. From logic I can deduce that if they're not willing to know what they're talking about, they won't know what they're talking about. And by the way you described them, they don't know what they're talking about.

Edited January 26, 2013 by ~Chaotic Aeternae Salvtis~

[DoctorWhovian1902 596]

That's just not right. Sure, it makes sense somewhat, but not in perspective. I fail to see the logic in that. If they're unwilling to hear the truth than how are they any higher up? If anything that makes them lower in a clearly unbiased sense.

 

I never said it was right. But it is reality, and, unless I'm wrong on this, it seems as though they're too far gone for logic. Besides, if I pointed what you said out to them, it would only create more problems. I mean, no one wants to admit they're wrong. Especially when you're a grown adult having it pointed out to you by your ignorant teenager (irony). You should have seen the other day, I was making a claim about something I'd learned about at school, and they said that I was wrong. So then one Google search and a couple of paragraphs of reading later, I proved that I was right. My dad held his hands up in a "okay, you win" sort of fashion and actually admitted I was right. The problem lies in the fact that they automatically thought I was wrong, and I had to prove it before they believed me.

[XXVYNIKK 145]

You're 17, I'd take that as a major advantage. There's some options like with threats, lying, or being independent. Truthfully it's not the best option, but it's common ground.

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

My dad has accepted me being a brony. It's my mom that is not. My dad was joking around with me one day when I bought my Rainbow Dash Vinyl collectible after buying the new devil may cry. He said " Enjoying your pony with the gay pride colors on it."

[DoctorWhovian1902 596]

My dad has accepted me being a brony. It's my mom that is not. My dad was joking around with me one day when I bought my Rainbow Dash Vinyl collectible after buying the new devil may cry. He said " Enjoying your pony with the gay pride colors on it."

 

Hey, at least you got something. My parents wouldn't let me hear the end of it if I brought home or bought anything MLP related. I swear, I asked them for a plush once, and a few days later this happened. I can't buy anything, I can't ask for anyone to buy it for me, I'm between a rock and a hard place.

 

Also, let me get this straight. Your dad accepts the fandom, but your mom doesn't? I just don't understand that. Usually it's the other way around.

 

Don't even get me started on the "gay pride colors" comment.

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

Hey, at least you got something. My parents wouldn't let me hear the end of it if I brought home or bought anything MLP related. I swear, I asked them for a plush once, and a few days later this happened. I can't buy anything, I can't ask for anyone to buy it for me, I'm between a rock and a hard place.

 

Also, let me get this straight. Your dad accepts the fandom, but your mom doesn't? I just don't understand that. Usually it's the other way around.

 

Don't even get me started on the "gay pride colors" comment.

My dad is a very mellow person. He's not old fashioned thank god. My mom can be very traditional at points. Like she would accept a man liking my little pony because it was a show intended for girls. But she has no problem girls being tomb boyish. It's that double standard I stated a couple days ago. About the gay pride colors, yeah my dad likes to joke around a lot. Even though the joke kinda pissed me off too.

 

my dad is 40 and my mom is 38. I'm lucky they are not in there 50s or this situation would be much worse

Edited January 26, 2013 by TheMarkz0ne

[DoctorWhovian1902 596]

My dad is a very mellow person. He's not old fashioned thank god. My mom can be very traditional at points. Like she would accept a man liking my little pony because it was a show intended for girls. But she has no problem girls being tomb boyish. It's that double standard I stated a couple days ago. About the gay pride colors, yeah my dad likes to joke around a lot. Even though the joke kinda pissed me off too.

 

my dad is 40 and my mom is 38. I'm lucky they are not in there 50s or this situation would be much worse

 

Well, guess how old my parents are...euyup, you guessed it.

 

The "gay pride" joke doesn't help any when there was already a controversy surrounding whether or not Rainbow Dash is lesbian, not to mention the idea that we're a bunch of homosexuals. Not helping, parents. Not helping.

 

My dad likes to joke around a lot too, but he tends to be a bit malicious, much like the hater trolls we deal with. He isn't funny either, and annoys me 99 times out of 100. He won't even joke about the fandom, it's too easy to make up bullcrap statements and use them like they're gospel (which only makes it more ironic that they require proof before they even consider believing what I say if they don't already know it themselves).

[crazitaco 596]

hmm force them to read through this thread. maybe, through our combined logic,  they will see just how stupid and ignorant they are behaving.

also, try showing them some real life statistics about bronies.

http://www.bronystudy.com/id1.html

they can't deny the facts. and the facts are that bronies are perfectly normal individuals, there are practically no differences between bronies and non bronies, other than that we are more accepting, less neurotic, and slightly more shy as a group. hell, slightly more bronies are actually straight than non-bronies.

Edited January 26, 2013 by crazitaco

[Mindrop 412]

Just hang in there? I'm not certain if my dad knows, or even if he cares, my mom, not a big fan of it. But my advice, is be yourself. The fandom does not hurt you, not like drugs, sex, alchole, or smoking, heck, point that out if you have not. Be twilightlicious man! Just be yourself, don't let others dictate who you are, I learned that the hard way.

[DoctorWhovian1902 596]

hmm force them to read through this thread. maybe, through our combined logic,  they will see just how stupid and ignorant they are behaving.

 

No. Just no. They'll take massive offense to everything that's been said about them, block MLP Forums from the internet, and go completely crazy.

 

As for the article, they won't even take a glance at it because of the ponification of the doctors. Also, the very mention of rule 34 would send them flying. Yes, there's porn out there of everything, but it's the very notion that the fandom I'm involved with does things like that that would anger them.

 

Still, at this point I'm at a loss. It may help, and I've bookmarked it for later in the event it ever becomes useful, but they'll look for any downsides to the fandom (ie: the larger rating of singles, the lower dating preference percentage, etc.) and blow it out of proportion.

[CMagic 34]

Parents will always be like that. Being disprovable of new and different things from what they have used too, except for those parents that are also bronies with their children, that is the most awesome thing in my mind. But anyway, no matter what if you want to keep being a brony you will be a brony no matter what!

 

If it makes you feel better then my mom is disapproving of me being a brony too, once she scared me with a visit to a physiologist and it never happened, neither i changed after that, i actually evolved in being a brony!

 

Be strong! And Never Change!

 

BROHOOF!

[Mindrop 412]

Hey, I am actually interests in you score

 

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

 

Knowing this, your exact personality, a test created by Carl Jung, a major psychologist, will give you a good, logical, scientific standing, if your parents even adhere to logic.

 

Personally, it helped me understand myself and accept myself even more. BTW, I'm an INTJ, Introvert, iNtuitive, Thinking, Judging.

[crazitaco 596]

No. Just no. They'll take massive offense to everything that's been said about them, block MLP Forums from the internet, and go completely crazy.

 

As for the article, they won't even take a glance at it because of the ponification of the doctors. Also, the very mention of rule 34 would send them flying. Yes, there's porn out there of everything, but it's the very notion that the fandom I'm involved with does things like that that would anger them.

 

Still, at this point I'm at a loss. It may help, and I've bookmarked it for later in the event it ever becomes useful, but they'll look for any downsides to the fandom (ie: the larger rating of singles, the lower dating preference percentage, etc.) and blow it out of proportion.

hehe, good point.

all i can say then is that if you really don't want to leave the fandom, you're going to have to fight for it. i wish you luck, in whatever you decide.

Edited January 26, 2013 by crazitaco

[Envy 6,169]

Remember, when they say "Be yourself", there is an implied asterisk. That asterisk reads "As long as you're straight, fit into the proper gender role of your birth sex, are a member of the mainstream religion that has hold over our country, etc. etc."

 

Of course, there are places where you shouldn't be yourself, like if being yourself means harming others. However, I can't help but be endlessly annoyed by those going around telling others to be yourself, but then when you come out to them "Keep that to yourself!" or "Oh no, no, no, you can't be that!".

 

Liking MLP fits into the same situation, because if you're a male liking MLP, then you're going against established gender roles. Society does not like that.

[Doctor-Whooves 288]

Perhaps you could show them this video. It's part of the Documentary (Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Fans of My Little Pony) and it shows persecution of bronies that my get them to feel you at the end.

[DoctorWhovian1902 596]

Hey, I am actually interests in you score

 

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

 

Knowing this, your exact personality, a test created by Carl Jung, a major psychologist, will give you a good, logical, scientific standing, if your parents even adhere to logic.

 

Personally, it helped me understand myself and accept myself even more. BTW, I'm an INTJ, Introvert, iNtuitive, Thinking, Judging.

 

According to the test, I'm ISFJ, Introvert, Sensing, Feeling, and Judging. However, the anylisis that "families are the center of ISFJ's lives" is wrong. My family isn't necessarily the center of my life. In fact, considering...well, take a look at what I'm writing on, certain events that have transpired lately, we've been somewhat distant.

 

That said, it is interesting that Watson was also an ISFJ. (Insert Watson picture with a "me gusta" face covering his face and a caption reading "Me Watson!" here).

 

Perhaps you could show them this video. It's part of the Documentary (Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Fans of My Little Pony) and it shows persecution of bronies that my get them to feel you at the end.

 

What is this...feel you speak of?

 

The main problem with the documentary lies in the comment that we're the result of 9/11. It says that we can't handle reality, and therefore have problems. I know everyone perceives things differently, but I can imagine, scratch that, picture them sitting there watching it, when that moment comes on. That'd probably be the end of whatever positive opinion the documentary would try to instill in my parents.

 

Let me just say this, they don't want to "feel" me when they're dealing with something they don't understand fully, and don't want to understand. Especially when it's "My Little Pony".

Edited January 26, 2013 by whoovesfan7698

[Doctor-Whooves 288]

What is this...feel you speak of?

 

The main problem with the documentary lies in the comment that we're the result of 9/11. It says that we can't handle reality, and therefore have problems. I know everyone perceives things differently, but I can imagine, scratch that, picture them sitting there watching it, when that moment comes on. That'd probably be the end of whatever positive opinion the documentary would try to instill in my parents.

 

Let me just say this, they don't want to "feel" me when they're dealing with something they don't understand fully, and don't want to understand. Especially when it's "My Little Pony".

Ah, my mistake. You thought I was referring to the entire documentary, when I was suggesting just the one video. It think it sends a pretty good message.

[DoctorWhovian1902 596]

Ah, my mistake. You thought I was referring to the entire documentary, when I was suggesting just the one video. It think it sends a pretty good message.

 

Don't get me wrong, it does...in theory. The thing is, people watching it have to have an open mind. My parents, if it isn't already obvious, don't seem to be capable of showing one.

[Mindrop 412]

According to the test, I'm ISFJ, Introvert, Sensing, Feeling, and Judging. However, the anylisis that "families are the center of ISFJ's lives" is wrong. My family isn't necessarily the center of my life. In fact, considering...well, take a look at what I'm writing on, certain events that have transpired lately, we've been somewhat distant.

 

That said, it is interesting that Watson was also an ISFJ. (Insert Watson picture with a "me gusta" face covering his face and a caption reading "Me Watson!" here).

 

 

What is this...feel you speak of?

 

The main problem with the documentary lies in the comment that we're the result of 9/11. It says that we can't handle reality, and therefore have problems. I know everyone perceives things differently, but I can imagine, scratch that, picture them sitting there watching it, when that moment comes on. That'd probably be the end of whatever positive opinion the documentary would try to instill in my parents.

 

Let me just say this, they don't want to "feel" me when they're dealing with something they don't understand fully, and don't want to understand. Especially when it's "My Little Pony".

Interesting. And the family is the most common center for an isfj, but its not the only. I was not expecting isfj, though it would explain their reaction to you becoming more ''independent'' as they may not be used to it. And yes, thee more I read, the more interesting it gets. Our parents are completely closed.

 

Perhaps it is time to practice passive resistance. Pack up the merchandice, hide it, but still hang out on here and use YouTube for the episodes, with headphones.wipe you internet history daily, so the lesson up. Don't say anything, just go under the radar.

 

Less optimal, but don't fight a battle you can't win. Irrationality is one of those battles. Retreat to fight another day. French, polish, Norwegian, etc. Resistances to Nazi germany style! Just without hurting you FAM.