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Girls or Boys and are you Male or Female?

Jun 19, 2009

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  1. Female and prefer Girls

  2. Female and prefer Boys

  3. Male and prefer Girls

  4. Male and prefer Boys

  5. Female with no preference or have equal of both

  6. Male with no preference or have equal of both

Multiple votes are allowed.
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    1. I know a lot of "otaku's" or people in the anime fandom are into Volks dream dollfies. All the guys in the fandom are really open about what they like and dress their dolls. You can catch their pictures at figure.fm or dannychoo.
       
    2. I get a lot of negative comments, though mostly cause people don't like me lol
      I am already strange so its just another thing to use
      though its gotten really old and it doesn't phase me
       
    3. Well, I'm a girl, but I can honestly say that male collectors don't bother me in the least. If you look at them more as movable art, or as a creative outlet, it's really not a gender specific hobby. Besides, if a guy collects boy dolls, couldn't they just be considered the most awesome action figures EVER?

      Besides, most of the guys I've shown my dolls to have been pretty interested in them. Maybe not in owning their own, but defiantly in the way they work. So, if you're a guy that loves dolls, more power to you!
       
    4. I'm a boy who's into boys as well. Boy dolls, that is. :D
      My friends (also all boys) go between using slurs about my sexuality (which they do all the time anyway because I am - almost all of us are), and making him heil. When I get my second doll (any day now ;-; ), they WILL be setting them up in raunchy poses. My friends have never acted in disapproval or anything like that; they're more fascinated than anything.

      When I first discovered BJDs, I shared it with my dad, who thought it was freakin' awesome. So awesome he kinda wants one. So after I get my next boy, I'm buying him a Puki. Ran it by him with all of the specs that she'll be getting, and he was pretty excited. Couple days later, I showed my grandpa. He too was fascinated. Of course, being a mechanical engineer, he wanted to know, in addition to how they were made and how much it costs, if they could move on their own, blink their eyes, and if he could take it apart, etc.

      It's funny, y'know... 'cause I work with a bunch of women.. and I've brought pictures of him in to work.. and he freaks them out. Same with some of my friends from school. They didn't like him. One of the girls didn't even believe it was a doll. Because I have a celebrity minimee, she thought it was just a picture of the celebrity and was like "Okay, where's the doll?" And then I was like "That's him," and she was all, "....no, that's weird."


      UH YEAH! I am putting together a Team Fortress 2 cosplay for Zin, complete with Force-A-Nature (for those not in the know, he's getting a 1/3 size sawed-off shotgun). NOT GOING TO MAKE POSEABLE 12-INCH FIGURES? I'LL MAKE ONE 60CM. TAKE THAT VALVE.

      *ahem*
       
    5. Hmm, I must be one of the few straight guys that likes the girl dolls. >.>

      I usually play girl characters in MMOs and when I write stories and draw comics I tend to have strong female leads.

      I'm as straight as they come, but I'm also a computer, gaming, anime, artist nerd. :P IE not your typical sports loving, car fixing guy... ANYWAY...


      Heh, you're lucky. While my father has only made a couple jeering remarks ("is your new girlfriend here yet?") he's listened to me drone on about them, but thinks it's pretty insane to spend that much money on a "toy". Luckily I'm not a kid and make my own money so he can't do anything about it but shake his head.
       
    6. Averis, you sound just like my dad! You are not alone, don't worry. He's sort of an eccentric guy (artist+tech/animatronic whiz=cuckoooooo) and most of his on-the-drawing-board ideas involve, like you said, strong female leads. And my boyfriend (not quite straight, but straight-looking/acting), if given the choice, always plays female in games. Screw gender roles, right?

      Pff. PFFFF. PFFFFFF. Dads can spend thousands of dollars on a car they only drive on the weekends, we're allowed to spend a few hundred on a chunk of pretty resin.
       
    7. I love it that guys collect BJDs, I wish more of them would get into the hobby and join DOA. It would be interesting to hear more male viewpoints on things :)
       
    8. I want your Dad, Vanzinger. :(
       
    9. That seems to be the consensus, yeah XD
      But unfortunately, the full vanZinger's Dad package now comes with Step-Mom, so demand has been going down recently.

      Hopefully though he likes his Puki enough to maybe go halfsies with me on a zombie MSD, but we'll see. We've got a friend who's a sculptor, and he can undead it up something fierce. I am going to cultivate a pack of DOLL MEN.
       
    10. Ooh...zombie MSD would be great! I hope he lets you!
       
    11. Both my dolls are girls lol
       
    12. Im a guy who has dolls of both sexes. I have a long term girlfriend and was the first guy in my friend circle to get a BJD. You dont have to think that guys into dolls fall into a 'camp' area, I know straight guys who have boy dolls who look like themselves, gay guys who have straight characters, guys who like having big busty girl dolls... The whole spectrum is out there. Im a creative guy and it wasnt seen as weird for me to own dolls, no one I know has found it odd that actually knows me, it seems pretty typical of me. Im a grungey guy, grew up in that early 90s grunge scene when Kurt Cobain was being photographed with his doll collection, so guys my age I hang out with think its cool without necessarily having to wonder about my sexuality. Its cool being able to hang out with my male friends making doll mods listening to Steve Albini getting paint all over our ripped jeans ;)
       
    13. I'm a guy and I've been working for a company that makes very popular dolls for about 5 years now. I'm a total horror junkie though and they come in coffins. So it wasn't too far of a stretch for me when they started showing up all over my house. So it was pretty easy going in. Alot of people were pretty amazed by it. A few of my guy friends actually collect them now. Most of them actually thought that the were my girls at first, but she would correct them and say they were mine. 90% of them as female. When I ordered my bjd, I ordered a male, but only because the face that I got would be prefect for the doll I want to make. When he gets here, I plan on giving him a sex change operation. That or just make him a transsexual.
       
    14. I'm NOT a guy, but as someone said before me, I'm "one of the guys". I play video games, read comic books, climb trees, throw rocks and pick fights (all in fun of course). All of my guy friends are confused as to why *I* would want a doll, and what on earth am I going to do with it??? I declared that I'd be getting two and they were all ribbing me until I told them they'd be lesbians. The resounding response? "That's Hot." XD Terribly non-feminist of me, but it shut them up. Of course, they get all kinds of confused when I show up in a skirt and "pretty" top so I guess I should have expected them not to understand.

      Of course, my father raised me from a very young age and he collected dolls as well. He was a tall, rambunctious and loud (gee, wonder where I get it? lol) guy and he didn't give an eff when one of his band members teased him over "his collection" (mostly plush Ms. Piggy's and Betty Boop's) and eventually they shut up about it too...ah, now I miss my Dad.
       
    15. Ok so I am a guy that’s in his late 20's and yes I have a doll, well dolls. I customized a few Barbies with my wife, and it was fun, then she decided to get a Dollfie plus and when I checked into getting her one I thought it looked cool so I got one too. I was happy that I didn’t have to mod a premade Barbie any more. A few years ago she fell in love will the Dollfie Ken, and I had told her that when I had enough I would get her it, so this year at Christmas I bought her a very pretty fashion doll from Evangeline ghastly thinking it would make her happy till I got her Ken, boy was I wrong, but its ok I got to keep the fashion doll and she got ken and a few others. I have bought a couple Hujoos which I just love, but I finally got a dragon doll last month. I prefer female dolls over male dolls.

      My mom is supportive in my doll hobby, well accepting at least... now, as for the rest of my family its kind of up in the air some seem ok with it, some are weirded out about it. My wife and I are part of a BJD group which is almost all girls but it's fun to go and talk to others that into the same things but I do get a lot of strange looks when I take Mei Ling out to the mall and like, not sure if it’s the whole doll thing or because it’s a guy with a doll. People that are into manga and anime seem to like my wife and my dolls the best.

      I do talk to my doll and spoil her, I thik it's because I don't have any kids yet and it's really nice to have a "daughter" to buy stuff for. I find my self going to Hottopic just so I can buy her things. I also feel that she has a soul, emotions, and a style all her own. I so can't wait till I get my next doll.
       
    16. While I myself am female, I've always been a tomboy and spent more time hanging out with the guys than with my own gender. While still retaining my femininity, I'm kinda like my father's favorite son; I build things, fix things, landscape, and watch all kinds of slasher/sci-fi/zombie movies with him. My father sells GI Joe figures and accessories on Ebay, so he likes to compare his Joes with my SSDF. I showed him a picture of jointed hands once and he was floored!

      All my guy friends (straight or not) really love my dolls, who I bring to work every day. From a guy's point of view, they love the detail and intricacy of the faces and joints. Most of my friends are fairly artistic, and we've spent hours just looking through Iplehouse or Luts admiring faces and body sculpts. The guys I know who aren't artistic are fascinated by the their size and the way they can move... The ultimate action figure! One of the guys I know frequently comes into the shop with a group of people, asks me who I have in with me today, then proceeds to tell the people he's with about how I paint their faces and make their clothes, and look how he can sit and stand and watch this!

      BJDs aren't like other dolls: they can be more bad-ass than Classic GI Joe with Kung-FU grip, or more elegant that Barbie in her best limited-edition ball gown!
       
    17. That is ~AWESOME~!

      =^__^=
      Anneko
       
    18. I've received very warm reception from my family and friends when they were told about my hobby. My brother loves my dolls as much as I do. And the one who led me into BJDs was a guy)) As SkadiGoddess said, I wish more of guys would get into our hobby =))
       
    19. My daddy just adores my little girl!:D In fact, he tells me he might get a dollie too someday!:)
       
    20. I don't even have any dolls yet and I agree with this.

      And to those who wishes more guys to get into this hobby, you realize that means less football, hot wings and beer guts, right? Haha.