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Things your family cannot stand about BJDs

Jan 27, 2015

    1. So last night, I got my doll's head back and was super excited to show him off. I showed my mom and my grandma and they both said the exact thing, "Wow....he is pretty. Too pretty." They don't like the boys. I have even showed them pictures of more manly ones and they still think they are too girly look. They also can't seem to get over the fact that I like my boy pretty. I do not dress him up as a girl, but I want him to be beautiful. They have no problem with the girls though...weird I know. Does your family have weird kinks about BJDs that they just cannot stand?
       
    2. The only real problem my mom has is the price. She thinks they are too expensive. One of my friends thinks dolls in general are creepy and is scared of them, so I guess she can't really stand the dolls themselves. It's weird since she's cool with poseable figmas....

      I have a Mystic Kids Illy sculpt and he is a very pretty boy. Even before I started dressing him in girl clothes, people thought he was a girl until I told them otherwise. But no one really has an issue with that type of thing. I like BL and watch anime, so my mom is not new to the concept of pretty boys.

      I've seen some manlier looking sculpts, so I'm not sure how high the bar your mom and grandma have for that type of thing. And if you are getting dolls from Asian companies, they like pretty boys (or so the boy bands make me think), so it's not a surprise that the dolls are pretty boys as well.
       
    3. My parents are pretty indifferent about bjds. They don't find them interesting or lovable like I do but they don't actively dislike them either. They think the dolls are all pretty and are all interchangeable (as in not much differences between them)
       
    4. My parents are pretty supportive of the hobby for the most part, but my mom can be pretty passive aggressive ("oh, it's okay if you like her, but I think her nose is weird"). One thing though, she's kind of bad about, is the price. Even if I can afford it, my mom gets pretty judgmental if she deems me to be spending too much on dolls. She's also recently started asking me when I expect to stop buying new dolls and "when is enough enough" as if collecting has some sort of end number?? It's pretty annoying.
       
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    5. Some of my other relatives think they're creepy, but my mom thinks they're gorgeous. I don't think she expected my first doll (my only MSD) to be as big as she is, though. I think she had in mind more of a fashion doll size, although I'd said she would be about the size of one of my OT cloth dolls.
       
    6. The Hubby calls them my "creepies" and he's convinced that they'll come alive one night and strangle him in his sleep. He won't touch them at all unless I REALLY need help with something I just absolutely can't do on my own. He has asked when I'll have enough (to which I just shrug) but he also understands that I get a lot of joy out of them and buying a doll never interferes with paying bills or necessities so he's pretty blase about them.
       
    7. oh my goshness. Same here, except this doll-phobic behaviour stems from my mum. She hates my doll with a blinding passion with all the bottom of her nasty evil doll-hating heart because she thinks he is scary, that I have a problem and convinced he'll come alive and terrorise the rest of the family or something like that and I'm actually scared that when I am away in town or at work she will take him and throw him into the trash >_> I resort to hiding my doll in my wardrobe now and am saddened by this.

      Curse those doll movies. Curse Annabel and Chucky movies! (no offense to those who like them)
       
    8. While the Hubby gives my dolls the evil eye, he'd never do anything to them. He knows how much I love them and he respects the cash value of them. He also can look objectively at them as works of art and for some of them, he can admire the engineering of them (like my Sugarble Naga). I have zero worries about anything bad befalling them while the Hubby is home alone with them.
       
    9. That's great. I wish my mum could be understanding as your partner is (although if I told her the cash value she'll probably hate the doll even more perhaps).
       
    10. My dad thinks it's childish that I have my BJD, he is constantly mocking me about, telling me to grow up. Although he's not one to talk since he spends his free time building car models that sit on a shelf in our livingroom.
       
    11. Wow...hypocrisy much?? :(

      I'm really lucky that my family are artists and can appreciate every aspect of the dolls. The only thing that my boyfriend says is "omg, she is staring at me" lol. He refers to them by name though. He respects how happy they make me. He has been talking about having shelves of dolls. He said last night to me "wouldn't you like a whole wall of dolls?" LOL it made me laugh because that would be too much for me but the thought was extremely sweet.

      So if it was one thing he can't stand it would be the way they "Stare" at him lol
       
    12. Yeah my parents don't approve of how much they cost and my most expensive one is a Soom Fairy. Most of them are under $300 but they still disapprove.
       
    13. My hubby highly dislikes the hair on boys. If I show him a pic of one of the male dolls I'm interested in the first thing he says is, "I don't like his hair." :D
       
    14. The thing that probably bothers my mom the most since entering the hobby is my constant hoarding of bubble wrap and boxes xD
      I rarely leave Walmart or Dollar Tree without some boxes under my arm xD
       
    15. She hates the things about the sunlight.
      Because she'd like the doll be my reason to go outside and take photos (I'm not getting out my room at all)
       
    16. My in laws think I'm weird and can't fathom why I like dolls, but they aren't mean about it. My sister in law is a little scared of them, so I keep them out of site when she comes over. My husband kind of likes them, though! When I got my Dollfie Dream Saber he noticed her right off, whistled, and asked me who the busty new girl was :). And he appreciates the artistry of my dolls, and that they are a creative outlet for me. He has an expensive hobby too, so he's ok with how much they cost. We always pay our bills and put away savings first.
       
    17. My parents don't like the prices, and don't even know the full extent of the true costs.....and may think some of them look weird, but my mom is the creative type and dad likes collecting weird things, so neither says much.

      My sister is in the hobby, she gets it!

      And my husband is generally supportive, but doesn't like child dolls, or seeing any of them without eyes. XD He also has a strong aversion to a lot of the gore or fantasy sculpts, but thankfully, I'm not really interested in them either, so that's never a problem.

      The in-laws don't say much about it, but my 8 year old niece is amazed by them, and said my doll room puts her Barbie house to shame. :XD: I would love to help her join the hobby when she's older, if she's interested.
       
    18. Neither of my dolls have come in yet, but my mom was really supportive at first. Pretty much every person in my family said something to the effect of "you did WHAT with your money!?" =/ which certainly isn't the best feeling. I bought mine for the sake of making and selling clothing for them, which is the part that they're all supportive of currently. Unfortunately when i told them how much I spent on my two dolls they got pretty snippy with me. (Luckily for me, I don't live with my family anymore, so I'm free to make my own decisions.)

      Best of luck to you with your dolls though! Just remember that they'll probably never be into it the way you are and that's OK! =)
       
    19. That makes me sad- for reasons unrelated to dolls.

      My wife has a serious problem with the price. She doesn't collect anything and seriously cannot wrap her head around why I would ever pay so much for a doll...
       
    20. When I first started in the hobby, I had a serious problem with the price *laughs*. It was actually the Hubby who encouraged me to get my first doll with cash I had left over from Ycon. He was around $250US when all was said and done and while that might not seem like a princely sum, at the time, it was a lot of money for us. I don't regret it though and he's still my favourite out of a collection of 27 dolls that run the range of sizes, companies and prices. And he's the only doll that the Hubby actually recognizes and knows the name of.
       
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