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 Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 4:24 pm
...Has this ever happened to you? Or something like or seeming like this?
Today I brought my doll to school (he braved the day wedged in a small HK bag until 7 of 9 periods, and ninth I found a strange stain on his shoulder... yet another thing to magic-erase) and I gota flurry of different responses. My girlfriend doesn't like him unless I make fun of him in some way, then she'll crack a smile when he's out. My friend Charlotte said I'm weird, but he was pretty cool. Another said he was ******** awesome, and knocked him down every time she tried to pose him (I eventually had to hold him up while she played with his arms), and my friend Jeff jokingly called the whole concept "Gay" which for him to use that word for anything other than homosexual... I'm not sure. Anyway.
The last of the responses was when some kid brushed by me. Yuki's wig got pulled right off, falling on the cold hard concrete walkway dividing school grounds from the bus-driveway that surrounded it. A few paces further I noticed my little boy was bald - so I turn to see a nearby congregation of about five boys. One called, "I got it," and IA ssumed he was nicely going to pick it up and return it to me (as I began to walk back to retrieve it along with my other two parties). But no. Instead he kicked it, and laughed, then my darling friend Tommy dove in the midst of it to save my boy's newly-trimmed-and-styled hair from getting too ruined. Of course afterwards I loudly made a threat and got the stabbing urge to jump the kid but seeing as I'm a significant foot or two shorter...
...Anyway. That really crushed me - luckily the wig was undamaged, and said friend Tommy even brushed it off and made sure it was alright. To say the least I put his wig in my pocket until I got home... But still. I felt just a bit... ridiculed by that. I'm not the kind of person to have enemies (anymore at least) and I've never spoken to the guy in my life or any of his accomplices. I'm just wondering whether it was an act against me, a general person, or the-weird-person-with-a-doll-who-dropped-its-hair?
TLDR ver. So, to you my fellow doll-owners.. -Have you ever felt bullied because of your doll? -Has anyone ever maliciously vandalized a part of your doll? -Have you gotten negative reactions to your resin/vinyl buddy? -If so, to what extent?
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Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:31 pm
Almighty Lurker...
Since I do not have a doll... I cannot say if it will be the same thing; but the little group of person who know I like/would want a BJD think of it as a joke.
I am in school whenI come on BJD sites and when someone who knows will come by me the only rthing they can say is : Again on your doll website.
And it does not seem like a lot, but it seems really mean when you hear that....
I live in a place where you need to be "normal" even when you are with the weird ones.....
Most of the people see anything that is "out of the ordinary" as something weird and to be 1: ignored; 2: laughed at or 3: bullied xp
Most of the time I get the ignored or laugh at part most.... they dont want to get near me xd
Go me and looking mean xp
...Queen of Procrastination
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Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:03 pm
I think this is a good example of why you really shouldn't take a doll to school. Kids can be pretty mean (often for no actual reason), especially in school, so I can't say I'm surprised that happened. :/ What school year are you in?
I've never had any problems of any kind, but then I also didn't have a doll until I started going to college, and I only took him to college twice 'cause it was too awkward to me to carry him around (didn't have a carrier then).
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:13 pm
Sounds like your "friend" Jeff is a jerk and your girlfriend is listening more to his ridicule to judge you than her own personal experience. Tommy sounds like a great friend though through and through.
High school, right? It's a b***h to be yourself there, so I commend you for having fun the way you like to and not the way others want you to. Gotta say, though, valuable items need to stay at home. If you want to bring them, wait for an "optional" day or a day where the majority of the populous goes home early...I don't know if your high school or any of them have that anymore, but most jerk-offs tend to flee the scene.
College is so different. There, everyone is adults, though not everyone acts like one. But they start to pretty quickly after the first semester unless their karma is building for a big whamm-o incident. Generally, once the initial "what's that?" is out and you explain how expensive it is, nobody will ******** with it because theft/vandalism over $500 is a real thing. No detention. No "shall I paddle you or call your folks". It's "Go to Jail, Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200, See you in Court F****r."
As I only started this hobby in college, I got very little ridicule. But I feel your pain. It'll pass. I wouldn't risk bringing him back to school, though.
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:55 pm
I'm one of the two people setting up a club fashion show, and he was my miniature mannequin.
Haha, you don't really know Jeff... He's rough around the edges and if you listened to his conversations for ten minutes you'd think he would be all ready to bomb the school but in fact he's a sweet, protective, understanding kinda guy - a real Hemingway Code Hero, you know? And yes Tommy's my nonaggressive boy. Perfect Romeo if I didn't have a girlfriend, and if he was, well... yeah.
Anyway back to the dolls.
Yeah I think I'll only bring him back on rare mass-skip-days (there's no optional, either go or skip) or a day when I need him (when I complete an outfit for him I have to show the actual human models the design for their approval). Also I want to see if this sort of bullying continues for another day (an incident happened today too, not doll related, I hope it was just coincidence).
I swear, the next time someone messes with me I'll have to keep my cool, but my doll? They're getting Jeff on them, that's all I have to say, because there's not much a short weak unfit asian kid can do.
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:45 pm
Some people are jerks - granted, this is high school we're talking about. While I think it's cool that you didn't mind taking your boy to school with you, it really isn't the best place for a doll. Don't let those kids get to you though. BJDs is a unique interest/hobby, so that makes you unique compared to generic bullies like that.
Just shrug a little and smile. They're missing out.
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:23 pm
No really relevant, but yesterday I brought his head in. I can't stand not being with him, like a little loser I am. xD
I got the funniest reactions, but no one seemed to say anything offensive. Today I brought all of him in and actually, my friend was playing with him all day. She really likes posing him, even though he has many-a tension problems (I never knew she liked poseable dolls like him so much, maybe in a year or so as a graduation gift I'll get her Bobobie Sprite. Her mom is an avid doll collector so she might not object...)
Nothing bad happened today or yesterday, so I think those incidents were just a coincidence and not against my doll.
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 1:56 pm
Most high school kids are simply jerks and will respond badly no matter what thing you have that happens to be just too different for them to handle it in any normal way. They have no clue how to react so what they do is to just be mean so as to not positively associate them selves with the thing that has made them uncomfortable. I got ragged on for anything from clothing to drawing to all kinds of stuff , and eventually started listening to music on my to and from school loud enough that I couldn't hear the outside world when they picked on me. Kids are stupid and will continue to be , I made a doll and brought it to school once ( it was for an art project , a life sized fabric doll) and it had my name on it so anybody who knew my name made fun of me for it , saying it way a sex doll and all other manner of things. Just gotta learn to not care about the stupid.
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:25 pm
The most I got 'bullied' because of my dolls is due to their cost, besides that, everyone seems to think they're pretty kickass~
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:45 pm
Thats so mean sad
even if was anything else, the kids probably would have been mean (kids are mean) I have alot of weird friends so they all like my doll or want one of their own. I dont care what ppl say I just do my thing. so even if someone said anything ::shrugs:: thats your opinion not mine, if you dont like the doll you dont have to get one ::nods:: 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:34 pm
well, now that I think about it I was bullied for my doll on this Guild sweatdrop just because he isn't perfect, but It was my first doll and I explained that too. it wants you to improve though...so I did (well I think so) they didn't think so but I dont want to do anything else to him now...except some more clothes ^^ before after
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:25 am
When I was in high school I took my sd13 with a couple of times for art class. I got some reactions like "wtf?!" but I think that's it. I sure got attention because of it but no bullying or anything. I just remember having her glued to me at all times just in case. xD;
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:24 am
That is SOME improvement, haha! Much much better, ne. Oh, bringing random limbs in is quite fun indeed... I keep my part of choice in a hard plastic coffin-case which makes it all the more better. My Deutsch teacher told me, "that is really creepy but whatever makes you happy," when I go through class with a head on my fingers and a hand dangling from my ear or something bizarre like that. I actually brought in all of Yuki recently and carried him, not just took him out in select classes or times. No one said anything (strangely no one seemed to notice) for most of the day - he sat on my lap with just the top of his head showing over the desks. Though there was a small incident in my global class where some KID THAT I WILL NEVER EVER TRUST AGAIN was asking about Yuki a little. I said don't touch, and I glance over no more than ten seconds later to see him pulling Yuki off my desk BY HIS FOOT. I yelled across the room and he stopped (I swore he was going to fall off the desk, my poor boy). Then those stereotypical preppy bitchy girls began accusing, "Is that a voodoo doll? It must be a voodoo doll."
Wow guys I've never seen a voodoo doll that expensive nor that pretty. Erglesnarf. He's safe though and to say the least I will not leave my boy alone in that class again.
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:11 am
Well, I have had a few old ladies start really lecturing me on my 'anorexic baby' and how I was a bad mother. Upon realizing the 'baby' is a doll, one apologized and even laughed a bit, while the other just left. Conversely, I've had people tell me my 'baby' is lovely, haha.
I used to get dirty glances from people all the time when I took my dolls to the mall. Some people have asked me, rather derisevely, why I would carry a doll. One that sticks out is one lady who came up to me while I was in line. "Aren't you too old to be playing with dolls?" she asked. "Nope," I replied with a happy smile. She shut right up after that XD
That's about the extent of my bad doll experiences. Oh! One guy in Borders walked up and grabbed my doll's FACE with his bare hands. Right on the cheek blushing. I would have pulled away, but I didn't want to add to the damage x.x Now I'm more careful around non-doll people, haha.
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