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I'm sorry to hear you're feeling that way about your pony collection
As a gamer myself (well, I play alot of WoW anyway ) I spend alot of time online with what is mainly males. I've been playing WoW with many of them for almost 6 years and not once has my pony collecting come up because, quite frankly, I don't see the need to bring it up. I know they have no interest in My Little Ponies so talking to them about it would be pointless. Same as it would be pointless for me to talk to them about my interest in cheerleading or about clothes, makeup and so forth.
Heck, I love Icehockey and I tried talking to them about that during the Hockey World Championship and they even thought that was stupid and boring to talk about. So now I won't bring THAT up either
The way I see it, there's not even any point in bringing up subjects with people when you know for a fact that they have 0 interest in it. Same as it would be pointless to start a conversation with me about say soccer because I have 0 interest in that.
As for friends, I'm not a very social person and honestly I don't have any friends at the moment. I do have to say though that I wouldn't want anyone as my friend that judged me for my interests. That doesn't say friendship to me.
The only ones who know about my collecting is my small family. My fiance and my mother are very supportive of it and even helps me obtain ponies. As for my grandmother and uncle they don't understand it and my uncle even made a remark to my mother a wile back along the lines of "Isn't she a little too old for ponies?". At the same time he's been a collector of Mickey Mouse stuff for as long as I can remember so who is he to talk? XD
But they're family, and even if they don't understand it they arent mean about it and I love them all the same.
Sometimes I have gotten remarks from cashiers in the toystore or the people at my postoffice. Once when I bought a bunch of new MLP stuff ar TRU the lady at the register went "Wow, I guess some lucky girl is gonna be very happy huh?". I just told her "Yup" since I don't see how its any of her buisiness that the lucky girl is me.
My point is, just like so many have written before, that you should do what you enjoy and don't care what other people think about it. People who judge you for what you love aren't worth your time and quite frankly, people doesn't need to know everything about you either. So there's not even any need to bring up MLP collecting with people who you know aren't interested in it and that you won't be able to have a conversation with about it. That will save you alot of trouble
Those are my opinions and experiences anyway
As a gamer myself (well, I play alot of WoW anyway ) I spend alot of time online with what is mainly males. I've been playing WoW with many of them for almost 6 years and not once has my pony collecting come up because, quite frankly, I don't see the need to bring it up. I know they have no interest in My Little Ponies so talking to them about it would be pointless. Same as it would be pointless for me to talk to them about my interest in cheerleading or about clothes, makeup and so forth.
Heck, I love Icehockey and I tried talking to them about that during the Hockey World Championship and they even thought that was stupid and boring to talk about. So now I won't bring THAT up either
The way I see it, there's not even any point in bringing up subjects with people when you know for a fact that they have 0 interest in it. Same as it would be pointless to start a conversation with me about say soccer because I have 0 interest in that.
As for friends, I'm not a very social person and honestly I don't have any friends at the moment. I do have to say though that I wouldn't want anyone as my friend that judged me for my interests. That doesn't say friendship to me.
The only ones who know about my collecting is my small family. My fiance and my mother are very supportive of it and even helps me obtain ponies. As for my grandmother and uncle they don't understand it and my uncle even made a remark to my mother a wile back along the lines of "Isn't she a little too old for ponies?". At the same time he's been a collector of Mickey Mouse stuff for as long as I can remember so who is he to talk? XD
But they're family, and even if they don't understand it they arent mean about it and I love them all the same.
Sometimes I have gotten remarks from cashiers in the toystore or the people at my postoffice. Once when I bought a bunch of new MLP stuff ar TRU the lady at the register went "Wow, I guess some lucky girl is gonna be very happy huh?". I just told her "Yup" since I don't see how its any of her buisiness that the lucky girl is me.
My point is, just like so many have written before, that you should do what you enjoy and don't care what other people think about it. People who judge you for what you love aren't worth your time and quite frankly, people doesn't need to know everything about you either. So there's not even any need to bring up MLP collecting with people who you know aren't interested in it and that you won't be able to have a conversation with about it. That will save you alot of trouble
Those are my opinions and experiences anyway
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