| Response to: Why I am anti-otaku By El Anime Hombre |
| Well I'm serching the net one day, and I'm reading aritclues at this anti-hentai site that was emailed to me. They have a lot of good information there and make many well thought arguments, except for one. A post titled "Why I am anti-otaku" caught my eye, and royaly pissed me off. If you want to read the article, and I suggest you do, click here. Now normaly I wouldn't do this, but allow me to tare this essay to Shreads. I see the word (otaku) in it's more original form, which is used as a derogatory remark to fantasy (mostly anime) obseesed people who have no true fix on reality. Yeah, that's me all right, I can't tell where fantasy ends and reality begins. How about them orcs, dangerous beings I tell ya. Now where did I park that space ship? Your stereotypical otaku is around his collage years (stereotypicly males are the high risk cases). Either realy skinny from malnourishment or obese from lack of exercise. They rarley take baths, thus they smell. Aside from being 18, I don't fit this discription at all. I am active in martial arts, Tai Chi Chuan to be exact. I know empty hand combate, two sword styles, and a sholin staff form. Not to mention I lift weights twice a week, the suggested amount of times that one should weight lift. In fact, my exgirlfriend left me because (accourding to her) I spend to much time working out and playing guitar (flamenco style to be exact). And for the record, I bath every day. There place of residence is usaly a pig sty, food stewn everywhere amoung the anime magiznes and video tapes. I'll have you know that the little hole in the wall I call home is very clean. I have no anime magizines, in fact I have no magazine subscriptions at all because I need the money for other things. video tapes, mine are postly DVDs now, but my whole colection is kept neatly (even alphabatized). Now lets talk about this thing "pig sty." I'm originaly from Iowa, and the father of one of my friends was a pig farmer. For the record, pigs are one of the cleanest animals around. They spend every waking hour collecting as much anime and manga as they can. Aside from the ones spent at school, studying, doing martial arts, playing guitar, and the hords of other things that I do. Yes, I do collect theaction figures, I even built some shelfs to put them on, but is that so bad. If I've got the money, why not? After all, we all have our little hobies now don't we? The otakus grip on reality is so blurred that they often become aroused only when watchin hentai. I don't like henati! Well most of it, Wicked City was kind of funny. Now aside from all the rape (rape is wrong) that is depicted in some movies, I give hentai it's credit. It's animated, so no one is selling out their body to make it. I've nothing against sex in movies, as long as it's tastefull, but in the long run sex scenes are not my thing, and I'm not going to go out of my way to watch henati. Otaku fall in love with anime women. Oh yay, I want to do it with Ryoko, she's so hot. Give me a break, I don't even date anymore because I find it to be a waste of time. It's for people who want to get married, and I'm not one of them. Now I'm not saying that I don't think they draw the women to look attrative, but I don't wnat to sleep with one. That's just sick. This is why dating sims are so popular among otaku. I stand by my previous statement. If I don't date in real life, why the hell would I do the whole sim thing? That's even dumber. They take personal offense (somtimes violance) if you don't like a charater and insult it. I am not a violent person, I hate fighting and will only do so if it is the only way out. I don't like to be insulted, but unless you want to to fight about it, I wont. I'm not going to back down from a challange, but to start a fight because you don't like Ido from Battle Angel, now that's intelligent (sarcasim). They are pervets, pediflies, scum... Fine, be prejiduce, you don't even know me. Sure you've had bad experiance with some pople in the past, but now you go and blame us all? Oh yeah, you strike me as a decent person all right. Are you going to tell me how "all men are pigs" now too? Who knows, maybe I'm the only decent guy left in the world, but I highly doubt that. The only reson men get such a bad rep is because of TV and movies, men are always depicted as boob loving skirt casers, and if their not like that their gay. I'm not at all like that, and I'm not gay OH MY GOD!!! What a concept, a decent human being. Bet you thought they were extint didn't you? Please note that my bad spelling and curruent dating situation were not planned when I wrote this. I keep it up because I got a lot of positive feedback on this one, but I am sorry if I have offended anyone. |