PSA: we exist

[branchandroot]

I don't do this very often, but this isn't the kind of thing I like to leave unchallenged.

Anime fans! Go and tell this blog-blinkered individual that women who are also passionate anime fans exist!

*shaking head* Honstly.

Comments

[ldybastet]

Hmm. Well, I seem to not count anyway, due to my selecting a few shows every season that I think looks interesting instead of a general OMG!YAY!ANIME! and watching *everything* that is aired. Hrmph.

[foxinthestars]

...Contrasting people who make passionate serious commentary with people who write fanfic. ::head meet desk::

Contrasting watching lots of stuff with fandom of specific titles seems awfully dicey, too; taken too broadly, you could be excluding as "fans" people who, er, have taste.

[annotated_em]

Oh for god's sake, way to bias your own sampling, douchebag. "There aren't any female fans, because they don't do fandom the way I do it! And my way is the only way to be a REAL fan!"

Augh. AND he has the nerve to make qualifications and backpedalling moves, but he does it in a comment rather than as a top-level edit to the post. Smooth, dude. Smooth.

[unjapanologist]

I've been to enough fannish places and cons to know there are very many guys too, but if I went just by my personal experiences, most of anime fandom is female. *glances at RSS feed* Most of anime bloggers too ;)

Talk about blogging versus LJ/DW-type journaling always confuses me a bit, though. I get the impression that people who write on non-LJ/DW services tend to think that LJ/DW posts are intrinsically different from blog posts? I'm not saying there isn't a difference (I haven't given it much thought yet), but I'm not sure what blogging-only people actually think the difference is. Do you happen to know if there's any good meta on this topic?

I say there are only guys because there are only guys in MY line of sight!!1! :DDD

[shiraume]

...I don't exist because I don't watch anime except very selectively and don't like hanging out around guys with your attitude? *wry* And he replies to one commenter "Sure, your survey shows a lot of gals but that's because only girls visit your site lol" and that makes his entire post...what?

Silly boy. ^.~

[dancing_serpent]

*sigh* Yeah, I'm not hanging out in the blogosphere but people like her don't necessarily make me want to.