Well ladies, it's just us...

Jyuu! Beamie! Elfy! You're alive!!! Yay! I know, the real world sucks! Now, gimme some ice cream!

*Relocks the back door*

They're not getting in until we get ice cream from them all, by Thor's Hammer! MUAHAHA!!!
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Oops! Sorry! *unlocks door and hands Blue a bowl of the cold stuff*

Yeah, I've gotten the 'you profane the books with your presence' stare before. But then, I've also been hit on...by troll-like guys who look like they don't bathe nearly enough. Whew!
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Blueflame:


I havent realy had any problems with the little comic book store that I go to. Perhaps that it is run by a woman or perhaps that I am kinda tomboyish- that I have had little to no problems with mine. Or at least with the employies- other costomers on the other hand... maybe its just me but when ever I am there and another male costomer is there he will more than likely stare at me resentfully. Like I have done something nasty to him?? :P that bugs me. Do any of you have that prob?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I used to get that too. For a while I was going to a Walden's bookstore for my x-men comics, and the clerk there just had this hostility thing for me. He was a young dude, and he would be scowl and me when I'd come in. And I remember when I was a teen, I visited a comic shop at a mall, and the owner seemed to really detest me. He followed me onto the subway and glared at me. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out if I'm doing something wrong to tick these guys off, but there was absolutely nothing that I was doing to warrent that. The truth is the kind of guys who hate women read comics. That doesn't mean all guys who read comics hate women, but the one's who do hate us seem to be interested in them. I think they must read the porno and rape-as-entertainment type books. They probably hate x-men because of all the strong women characters like Storm or Shadowcat.

*bangs on the back door* Hey let me in!!! http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/eek.gif And save some ice cream for me!

Sorry I havent posted in forever and a day, but I just got back from work camp ( a lotta fun despite the sunburn) and I jsut got a job http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/tongue.gif http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif 8 solid hours on my feet-uck. oh well.

I havent realy had any problems with the little comic book store that I go to. Perhaps that it is run by a woman or perhaps that I am kinda tomboyish- that I have had little to no problems with mine. Or at least with the employies- other costomers on the other hand... maybe its just me but when ever I am there and another male costomer is there he will more than likely stare at me resentfully. Like I have done something nasty to him?? :P that bugs me. Do any of you have that prob?

I'm a security guard at a power plant they're building in San Marcos. It's 12 hours for 3 days, then 6 on the fourth day for 9.50 an hour.

I haven't gotten any flak for reading comics. Mostly because I don't take shit (excuse me) from anyone, about anything. And the guys at the comic shop know it and are very nice to me.

Remind me never to make you angry BEAMIE! *Hands MBD half a gallon of his Rocky Road* http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif

Wow, I honestly never knew that there was such hostility towards the ladies in comic shops. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/frown.gif From all of your 1st hand acounts and that stupid A@@ silver bullets article, it seems like it's something that's been going on for a while.

I dont get it, 'cause I am absolutely thrilled whenever I see girls in my regular comic shop! Another really popular shop here in South Florida that i'm crazy about is called 'Tate's comics'. There's an anime-addicted girl behind the counter that almost EVERY guy who shops there is in love with, and Tate's is frequented by some of THE coolest comic-collecting girls (besides you guys!) that i've ever had the pleasure of meeting.


Very surprised (and dissapointed) to hear that my experience with girls in comic shops is apparently not the norm. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/frown.gif

BAMF!

You're probably on to something there. For a while, I was really meek and tried to find ways to appease the assholes. After I got fed up and got this Kiss-my-ass attitude toward them, they shaped up or shipped out. I think you got to have that attitude to make it in this world. It's not all peace and love. You have to be willing to crack some nuts to get respect.

Hope I'm not scaring the guys off... http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif

LOL. Okay I will. ~Grabs ice cream.~ Thank you.
There is a comic shop in Austin called Dragon's Layer and every, well almost every, time I go in there, I get stared at. The last time I was there a adult RPG player literally stopped what he was doing and stared at me until the guy next to him hit him to continue. I had my back to him and didn't see it, but my step dad had seen it and told me. Of course it might have had something to do with what I was wearing at the time...(Jeans, purple tie-dye spagetti strap shirt and a black see through shirt over it, and I had my hair up in a pony tail.) But I have had a few guys stare at me when they saw I was an anime freak. The reminds me, I gotta go stop by Animagix in Austin soon.

Hey BAMF! It's probably a regional thing. I live in the DC area, and comics aren't all that popular here. So it's kinda an underground sort of thing. Not too respectable. So maybe these guys think a girl who reads them isn't respectable either. That's just my theory of the moment. It's sounds a lot better where you live. People arent' so uptight.

But like I said, things are looking up. My local shop is great now with the new owners. I don't get anymore crap.

I didn't get any trash in the first place from the comic book shop guys, but I have from others and they all left me alone after I ripped their heads off about my reading comics. That doesn't happen to often in Texas, I guess reading comics here is a ok thing.