[sheshira]

The thing is you have to be careful of the "Jack Thompsons" of the manga world. If you don't know who Jack Thompson is. He is this whack job who believes that violent video games will make people violent. Really, the same thing applies here, people use stereotypes to justify illogical thinking. Violent videogames make you violent, shoujo manga means you're gay (for guys), shounen mangas for girls aren't proper etc. Honestly, you can't let people like this get you down. Don't let them tell you what you can and can't read especially if you can see that their reasoning is due to really illogical reasoning and really, discriminating logic. Because, shoujo mangas or not, what right does anyone have to make anyone feel bad regarding their sexuality regardless of what your sexuality...

Though, I do understand that as a girl I cannot quite comprehend the hardship a guy goes through in liking shoujo mangas. I know it's wicked easy to spout the advice I gave you but as a guy you go through more hell if you veer away from what is considered "boy" stuff... and if you like things that don't fall into that, you guys really do go through hell. In the end, if you are comfortable with yourself (don't sweat the gay thing for one) then the heck with other people..