| My mom knows I watch anime. Unfortunately, since I started like everyone watching Dragon Ball, she thinks anime are all like that. Not that it's really a problem for me, because she's not interested and I can watch what I want. Well, she does watch Miyazaki stuff, but that's it. With my friends is all another story. Of course they know I watch anime, and of course they know I watch yuri :D I can't discuss any of it with them though, because they don't watch anime AND they definitely are not interested in yuri. Such a shame, really. |
| Not until I got a few dvds in the mail. That was an interesting conversation :P. |
| My friends that are anime fans know about it(obviously), and my friends who aren't anime fans have a pretty good idea too. My parents don't though, I'm not gonna be like "hey mom, come watch this chinese cartoon about lesbians with me!" |
| Chinese? O_o |
lynx said: Chinese? O_o T'was a joke :P |
| My parents are sus enough about me as it is. I needn't inform them that I spend my free time obsessing over animated lesbians. (=_= ;) |
 "I'm always sleeping in my forest of thorns." - Satou Sei |
| My family doesn't know, I don't want them to be awkward around me just because I like yuri. They accept homosexuality, but I don't know how they'd react, so I don't plan on telling them. Of course, if they ask me directly (even though they don't even know the term) I'll say yes, I was raised by anime values, so I can't lie xD. All my friends know and accept it, but they thought I was a lesbian. They finally accepted that it wasn't the case like a year ago, but they're not disgusted by yuri owo |
lupi_sanSep 14, 2009 11:19 AM
| Um, I live with my mum, and she knows that I watch yuri (she also know that I sometimes watch Hentai XD). But I think that, for her, all animes are like Pokemon so... :/ I don't really feel like talking about it with my dad. He knows that I watch anime, but not about yuri. I mean, when I told him that I'm bisexual he said that It's fine (but he thinks that a lot of girls in my age have doubts about their sexuality blah blah blah) but I don't really feel like telling him "Oh dad, I watch "cartoons" about lesbians~" And about my friends... Well, those who watch anime know about it. And my best friend knows about it (because I bug her about everything I watch XDDD) But most of my other friends don't. I just don't talk about anime with them... :/ |
deadoptimist said: Though I think shit-flinging should also have standards - no personal, no behind the scenes. |
tehnominator said: everminded said: My parents are sus enough about me as it is. I needn't inform them that I spend my free time obsessing over animated lesbians. (=_= ;) I am retarded--what does "sus" mean? Is this some kind of Australian slang word? Or like, short for "suspect" or something...? :( i would guess suspicious |
Unkind said: tehnominator said: everminded said: My parents are sus enough about me as it is. I needn't inform them that I spend my free time obsessing over animated lesbians. (=_= ;) I am retarded--what does "sus" mean? Is this some kind of Australian slang word? Or like, short for "suspect" or something...? :( i would guess suspicious Yup! I must refrain from word shortening and talking about cordial. TarewPnx said: I guess it's best to keep yuri in the sock drawer. I know someone who really does that XD |
"I'm always sleeping in my forest of thorns." - Satou Sei |
| Well, I remember once, I had a "I <3 Yuri" badge on my bag, and my mum asked me about it. I just simply answered "It's a genre of anime", to which she asked "Yes, but what is it?". "A romance genre", was my final bit of information, before walking out of the room. Let's just say that my family isn't exactly open-minded. I've nearly been thrown out of the house for having seasons of "The L Word" and Ellen's comedy dvds. So Yuri anime and manga is a big no-no for them, and I won't speak to them about it. And I don't think I ever will, to be honest. |
| Well, some of my friends do, but why would I like to tell it to my parents o,O ? It's a private issue which just like a sexual stuff should be avoided in conversation with family in order to not embarass anyone. I can discuss both with my closest friends, who are young enough to understand, open minded and respecting. They see nothing wrong in watching yuri~~ we all are adult people, with our own needs. We all know that watching porno isn't out of normal so why would yuri be? However, though I'm hetero I can't even imagine tellin my mum "Yo, listen mum, beside normal anime I like watching yuri, which means lesbian anime, but no, im not homo, i just enjoy it. What do you think bout it?". For me, it's just almost the same as telling her about my sexual relationships. There are some topics which should not be discussed with the closest family, that's just the way it is. |
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jodi345 said: Me and my friend are expert in yuri pictures What does that mean? o_O |
| When they will know where is Japan, maybe I'll talk with them about anime. |
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| My family knows I watch anime, and collect manga and such but they don't know anything about yuri or shoujo-ai, well except my brother since he watched Mai-Hime with me ^^;; As for my friends, only a few of them know about it x3 |
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| Let's see... my mom once saw me looking at an Utena&Anthy picture, and she asked: are they both women? xD I said yes, and she said nothing else. They weren't kissing though. My parents are not homophobic, but sometimes they get a little intolerant, specially my dad, so I would never say: "Hey dad, I like this..." It's not necessary. My little sister is 11 years old and I think she knows about shoujo-ai, she once saw me watching Aoi Hana, and she's ok with it, i'm raising her well xD but she's too young to know about hentai yuri <__< I hope she doesn't find my NSFW pics haha. Once I mentioned it to my twin cousins that are one year older than me,girls,because they like anime, and they just replied that they didn't like it, nor yaoi. But they were really respectful. About my friends, just my best girl friend knows, I only talk with her about anime, I have other anime-liker friend but he likes Naruto, so bleh xD A guy friend I had in high school knew too. My ex-boyfriend knew. My current boyfriend knows, more than anyone xD. He asks me: "What are you doing?" And I say: "Watching yuri ^^" or "I'm going to watch yuri *o*" Sometime I even send him pics. But he loves me anyways xD And this was a long post <.< |
nomadica said: Unkind said: How so? I am interested...Not until I got a few dvds in the mail. That was an interesting conversation :P. Well, I am a guy so it's not as weird as it could be, but here's what happened: dvds comes in from the UPS (sbp, msgm, elfen lied) mom grabs it and takes it in (living at home again till next year) i run in to unpack and check it out, was doing something outside i unpack 80% of it and my dad suddenly needs help doing something My mom finishes unpacking it for some reason (wtf.) i get back in the house and she basically asks me about anime and "what's with the 2 girls on the cover" with a weird look. i had to explain why I liked yuri, thought it was cute, but didn't buy this stuff for the reasons she probably immediately thought of. It was... lets just say it was difficult lol. I'd never talked to anyone about anime except like 2 friends and people on the internet, let alone yuri. Now I watch it in the living room on the 40"~ TV lol. I don't give a fuck :P. Elfen lied is actually more strange to watch in front of people though (pissing on the floor, exposed tits, multiple personalities, bloodbaths etc). |
Unkind said: i get back in the house and she basically asks me about anime and "what's with the 2 girls on the cover" with a weird look. That's it? I'm sure plenty of anime have two girls on the cover, it's weird that the first thing she assumed was "Two girls within 5 feet of each other?! They must be lesbians!" In fact, that was probably the least likely thing for it to be. I mean, two girls posing just looks cute, so I don't see how someone who doesn't know about anime(and the existence of yuri) would even consider that. You basically got pulled over for speeding and admitted to killing someone xD |
Supernova1337 said: Unkind said: i get back in the house and she basically asks me about anime and "what's with the 2 girls on the cover" with a weird look. That's it? I'm sure plenty of anime have two girls on the cover, it's weird that the first thing she assumed was "Two girls within 5 feet of each other?! They must be lesbians!" In fact, that was probably the least likely thing for it to be. I mean, two girls posing just looks cute, so I don't see how someone who doesn't know about anime(and the existence of yuri) would even consider that. You basically got pulled over for speeding and admitted to killing someone xD heh, it was the SBP box man, it's obvious some shit is goin down ya know :P. I just decided to tell the truth rather than be like oooh it's nothing (that would make me seem distant and strange, rather than just strange). It was still weird as fuck lol, because some things you just keep to yourself, that was one of mine. |
akai_ribbonSep 18, 2009 11:09 PM
| It really was my best friend who introduced me to yuri... She really loves it. And I kinda started to like it ever since... Now is like a part of my life. My family, well... They hardly know what I do in my life, so it's not important to me that they know I like yuri (they might not know what it is...) I just think I'm to lazy to explain to them what is yuri and why I like it. So I just don't tell them about that part of my life. And it's not like they would scream to me if they notice I like yuri. ¬¬' |
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| My friends know that i watch yuri, and they keep asking " Why are you watching such a thing ". It makes me angry -.-. My family knows that i'm anime freak, but they don't know anything about yuri :) |
| Hmm, well my family already knows I am lesbian so they don't really care what kind of stuff I look, I don't live with my parents anyways... they do know I am into anime though, I just never thought it was necessary to explain to them that yuri anime exists... you do understand me here? And as for my friends, of course they all know about it, I have friends that are into yuri and others that are like "Eww you're so perv looking at that stuff"... and even if I keep telling them it's not hentai, they're just not open so I stoped hoping for them to open their eyes a little wider *laughs* ... some people are just hopeless *sigh* |
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| Both my father and sister know that I like anime. Although my dad doesn't know much about it, little lone yuri. Though he knows what yaoi is, he found out the hard way on that one. Which was actually kind of funny. My sister knows what yuri is, and knows that I like it and she doesn't mind. They also know that I am bisexual, so that if my dad did know it wouldn't be much a shock to him. As for my friends well like most everyone here, they don't even know what anime is. Save a select few friends, however most of them like the anime that comes on Adult Swim, and Toonami. So they wouldn't know what yuri is, as far as I know. |
| What you saw at the castle on that windy night ,and what you saw at the bridge last night .. how I smiled, never utter a word to anyone. If you dare speak .. I will find where you are .. And I will kill you. Kill you. I will rip you apart .. crush your bones And eat your flesh.. I will drink your blood. I will .. devour you. |
| Those of my friends who know that I watch anime know that I watch yuri as well. My family knows I watch anime, but they don't know I watch yuri. My girlfriend sometimes watches yuri with me. Surprise. :) |
| My grandmother last x-mas found one my Strawberry panic vol.1 magna and when to get me the second one well, that when she met yuri. I got the funnest phonecall ever and came out to her( ya thats not fun comeing out over the phone and then i got its just a phase, my mother said the same thing but my daddy belives me(hes bi)in the end i still got it but for my b-day after talling her for mouths thats is not porn she ever watch it with me(that was funny) My friend love yuri and yaoi so yae my family funny some times and know yuri and lezbain school girls vary well but there is no way in hell there seeing kanazuki no miko(well my daddy did, but i don't live with him) |
| Haha... hahaha... no. ;A; My parents know I watch anime and always hint that they think I'm a weirdo for enjoying "foreign cartoons" and mom especially likes to harass me with, "Why do you even like this stuff?". Oh well, they can deal with it. It's not like I'm a bad egg and am shooting up drugs or anything. All of my siblings know what yuri is (except my baby sister, derp) but they don't know I watch it... though I sometimes try to drop hints, that way if they really wanted to know what I watched they have the opportunity to look it up for themselves. I have yet to find anyone IRL who's as connected to Japan as I am, so I just don't talk about anime with friends. I mean, I have a few friends who watch the extreme mainstream stuff and never want to explore outside that box of anime, but they're never interested in anything but yaoi and bishounen. I doubt they know that yuri exists. D: /end wall-of-text |
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| I think I've mentioned it to my mom before, and she's fine with those things. My friends aren't judgmental either, I don't think I would have friends that are. Haha, they all know what a Yuri lover I am, and sometimes they tease me for it xD; but then I tease the girls about their Yaoi, so it's even. x3 |
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| No, my parents don't know about Yuri, but my brother and sister do. Since I am a lezzy myself, I doubt my mom would care of it, like she won't freak out or anything. It'll be like a guy getting caught looking at hetero porn! :D My sister doesn't care, she enjoys Yuri also, just not as much as I do, she likes Shoujo-ai and Shounen-ai more. While my brother on the other hand, enjoys it probably as much as I do, but sucks at finding my stash. >:3 My friends don't care, a few of them like it also, those are my anime loving friends, I have some other friends who are interested in anime but don't like it as much as I do. They like some Yuri here and there also. xD |
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| Well.. I have watched yuri for a pretty long time xD And my twin sister knows it (and likes it to) she found out about it when i watched strawberry panic. She came in to my room and keept asking me what i was looking to and she keept asking me so then we watched a episode togheter. And i tought she would think i was wierd and grose but she just "what is this anime called?" she did not care at al. But one time she was looking at yuri and i asked her what she was looking at and she said candy boy and then i watched it whit her and i must say that was a wierd experiense xD O.o . My big sister dont know and im not planing to say it to her either tho she knows i read yaoi xD and she finds it rather wierd.Im not telling my parents either, i dont think they would be mad or anything but they would shure ask a loot of questions like "are you gay :O" and i just diint feel like telling them xD And my dad know that i read yaoi, but he´s okay whit that. And one of my freinds know but she´s more in to yaoi. And im sorry i wrote so much i just enyoed reading everyone elses strories so i wanted to share a little to xD gomenasai~~ |
ChikaneRuMyWoOct 29, 2009 4:39 AM
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| My family knows nothing of Anime, let alone yuri. my freinds however, are all addicted to it(as well as yaoi, loli, yiff, etc). |
| My family knows I'm an anime nut but that's about as far as it extends. Once though I was in an insane Aoi Hana gushing mood, which led to a interesting conversation with my mum lol. I scrambled as I tried to explain why I was so enamoured with Fumi without actually omitting certain information... My mum knows I'm gay but I think if I explain to her what yuri was she would make a direct collation between yuri and my sexuality. Basically I’d be worried that she’d think I was a total pervert lol. |
| Well, my parents don't know and I think its better that way. The already seem to think I'm a strange guy, since I am "the only one of my age who watches cartoons"... My friends who watch anime (that's 1 guy by the way) knows. My friends who don't watch anime also know, since they forced it out of me. At first they made fun of me and got irritated. I learned to ignore it, so now they don't actually care that much anymore. The friend who watches anime (also yuri) is named Joeri. That's a Dutch name which you pronounce as yuri :) |
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everminded said: My parents are sus enough about me as it is. I needn't inform them that I spend my free time obsessing over animated lesbians. (=_= ;) Haha, dito! But my friends do know about Yuri, because even if they're all straight girls, they're open-minded enough to enjoy animes like Marimite and mangas like Girl Friends. |
| my siblings like to walk up behind me and ask "whats that" so i say. "one of the supporting characters a lesbian" then they assume i dont deliberately watch it and i say it so casually that they dont feel the need to tell my relatives. but my brother likes to tell his friends. >< |
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AcidBlackCherry said: my siblings like to walk up behind me and ask "whats that" so i say. "one of the supporting characters a lesbian" then they assume i dont deliberately watch it and i say it so casually that they dont feel the need to tell my relatives. but my brother likes to tell his friends. >< I would hate it if my younger brothers would try something like that. |
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| my cousin and a few friends |
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| Everyone who knows me knows I like yuri... it's nothing to hide... I don't hide my sexual orientation, so why would I hide the fact that I like yuri (of course, I don't go shouting it from the roof tops) but I do let it be known. ^_^ |
| My family know that I watch anime and they have guessed that I watch yuri, they just didn't know it was called yuri. It's one of those things where they know I'm a lesbian so it would make sense that I would watch stuff that I related to somehow. But when I say 'family' I only mean my immediate family, parents and elder brother. Of course my friends know I watch it since they watch anime too, and I like to share some of the ones I watch with them, namely Noir or Utena. Sometimes when they're trying to convince me to watch a particular show they try to lure me in by saying there is some slight yuri or there is a EPL (evil psychotic lesbian) in it. ....the EPL gets me every time ><. Ashrie said: Well, I remember once, I had a "I <3 Yuri" badge on my bag, and my mum asked me about it. I just simply answered "It's a genre of anime", to which she asked "Yes, but what is it?". "A romance genre", was my final bit of information, before walking out of the room. Something similar happened to me once actually. I live in the dorms since the university is too far from where I live. Well, my grandparents live in the same city as the university so I'll visit them whenever they invite me to dinner. One time my family came down to visit them so I went to meet up them. Well, sometimes I forget what shirt I happen to wearing, and so I visit them with a 'Yuri is my anti-drug' shirt on. I only noticed that I was wearing it when my mother gave me a strange look (she knew what it was). My grandmother read my shirt and asked me what yuri was, and both my parents looked at me to see how I would answer. I simply said that it was a 'type of anime' and left it at that, luckily she didn't ask any further questions and dropped the subject. I wouldn't want to have to come out over the dinner table just because of my shirt ><. |
| "Wish as hard as you can, and they will know your feelings" - Juri Arisugawa |
inuyashashotty said: (of course, I don't go shouting it from the roof tops) This would be hilarious. Please do that one day and then put it on youtube. :DDD |
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