Am I the only who isn't surprised about the turnout for lgbt people within the animal crossing community?
Reading this reminds me of something I was told just two days after I began playing Animal Crossing, on April 3, 2009 (Yep, I remember the exact date):
On that day, after my dad got home from work when I was just nine years old, he caught me playing Animal Crossing: City Folk on our Wii, which we had just had for not even four and a half months yet (we had gotten it right before Thanksgiving in 2008), and he said that it was a game that only should be played by girls. This was because the night before I had just completed the job for Tom Nook right when I had reached my bedtime (I was only in 3rd grade at the time), so when I had come back from school on a Friday afternoon, I immediately made a visit to the city since I was the first I could do in the game and he caught me visiting places such as Shampoodle's where I got the "Mii Makeover" and GracieGrace, which had the princess set on sale at the time. My dad continually put me down for playing Animal Crossing for the vast majority of 2009 and 2010 and he started doing it again in 2012. I absolutely hated it.
I know that rant seems unrelated, and it's
completely okay if Animal Crossing has a high amount of LGBT players, and males in no way should feel pressured not to play it because it seems "girly". Again, I was 9 when I started playing the game-I'm 18 now and while I don't play it as often since I've gotten so busy with schoolwork in recent years, I'm still a big fan of the series and probably will have a soft spot for it for the rest of my life. I just don't want the series to be seen as "girly" and have to suffer from the same situation I did during those years, especially in 2009 and 2010.