User blog:Baluar/A rant

So today I had a meal with some relatives and before leaving I made an off hand comment about wanting to get a game poster or some shit to decorate my room, and they kinda looked at me as if I'd said I wanted to put the image of a naked man in my window. A cousin of mine even said that it was (mind the language gap) "something you'd expect from a masturbator".

I got pissed off, but not because she was being intentionally cruel or anything. It's because she was right. In a way, she was objectively right, because that is, in fact, what most of the people would think upon seeing, say, that I hung a poster with a pic of a God Eater game or whatever. All the while I was thinking that, my relatives began talking of someone (don't know whom) who usually posted anime pics on his Facebook. In a similar, disdainful tone, of course. Someone even mentioned "he's [the guy] just a bit older than him [me]".

So in essence, you're looked down upon because you have different tastes. Absolutely brilliant, I gotta tell you.

Didn't know I was not allowed to have tastes. Oh sure, you could have them, but then people would look at you funny and gossip when you ain't looking.