I thought this was going to be about antibiotics.

I would agree that overall, we're probably a young, white, bisexual crowd of women. You're going to get that majority in any community devoted to a shoujo anime series, though. (I've noticed male anime fans group together more than female ones do, thus there are more male-dominant anime boards out there.) I am, personally, a bunch of delighted at how cosmopolitan we are, though. Makes me feel like it's a true global community. And it is.

I would also agree that we feel diverse because we openly savor our differences. Yasha and I were just discussing this, so I'll bring it here a little. I'm really, honestly, completely in love with the whole lot of you. I had my concerns about opening a forum, I was worried about how people would get along, whether we'd have to deal with a lot of flaming and bickering, which I've seen both in general and within the SKU fanbase at times. You guys are a fantastic crowd. I haven't seen any immature LOL INTERNETS garbage, I haven't seen anyone excluded or singled out, I haven't seen anyone looked down on for their practices and thoughts. My heart was in my throat when we started discussing our gender preferences in IFD, I thought 'This is going to be an ugly, flame-laden  start to my forum.', and as it turned out, it was one of the most mature discussions of sex I've ever seen.

Seriously. I love you guys. You're the best crowd a little forum admin like me could hope for, and meeting and getting to communicate with such cool people really makes me want to work on the site more.

As for you, satyreyes...I must admit my first thought was...OMG A MALE SKU FAN. THAT'S STRAIGHT. Plz, can I poke you with a stick? Maybe dissect you? You are definitely a rare breed, but just as welcome here. It's great getting all different perspectives, and even with the similarities in demographic, we accomplish that very, very well.

I'm just another 20-something white bisexual girl. I'm poor though...I wasn't when I started with SKU, hence how I could afford to brutally rape all those artbooks. I only speak English, though I know a lot of different languages are spoken here. I'm Italian in origin, and though that makes me far less Italian than the actual Italians on the board, apparently it shows strongly in my day to day life. (I'm told. Maybe because I have a loud voice and sneer when people eat Pizza Hut?)

I'm 27, white, straight, and male. This puts me in the minority on the board, something I think is pretty awesome, since it's not a common feeling.

I'm also Canadian, so I'll take what little minority group cred I can from that.

I also think this board is pretty awesome in terms of the maturity and politeness of discussion. I was utterly amazed the bisexuality thread on the Utena-specific forum didn't explode into flames, and I was in it and desperately hoping it wouldn't.

Ahahaha. Guilty as charged, though thoroughly a starving student (my family was poor growing up, though now I suppose they qualify as middle-class). The kind of people who will be exposed to this stuff are definitely of a certain stripe - but I think the board makes a good showing regardless, all things considered.

(I'm a Mexican Citizen, though! I'm half-Hispanic! Nevermind that I'm completely blond and pale and my Mexican family is European in descent and they're rich as hell...)

Was introduced to Utena by a male, if that counts any.

But Anthy and Akio ARE dotheads... literally...........

I'm quite surprised that a homophobe would feel comfortable watching Utena once, let alone more than once.  Ok, actually--not so much that as a person who "hates" homosexuality and homosexuals.  Shouldn't they boycott Utena?

I know how you feel, though.  My family is down-home southern.  At Thanksgiving they started whispering with disapproval about how a distant cousin had a BLACK baby...that was the last straw for that day.  I went off on quite a tangent.

I actually tend to avoid online communities.  Much like I avoid communitizing in real life.  That said, it's nearly impossible to avoid it totally, and (so far) this place is pretty great.  Better, actually, than AG (which I frequented for years ;_;).  It's like, gasp, people actually talk about anime rather than starting 8 million vanity/spam threads?

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I'm a young LESBIAN female! And a quarter Xhosa to boot D: Now where's my fucking diversity award!?

Oh and, I wouldn't really call us a demographically diverse crowd, but as far as interests and stuff I'd say we're a lot more diverse than most of the anime communities I've had the honour of being chased out of. Sure, there are a few freaky phenomena (like how a good half of us have studied Aikido) and things that are damn here expected (the interest in Japanese culture and fencing) but we don't really have the hive-mind thing a lot of other groups have. I've seen a lot less metooism on this board than other places.

I think I kind of have an explanation for that too. Check it. Humans have this shitty habit of grouping together and sharing things with eachother and creating kind of a community interest incest. This is particularly common among teenagers, but the Utena community hasn't really come together in large groups for quite some time, so a lot of us have had time to get our own stupid hobbies. LOLSPECTRUm.

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I'm 27, white, straight, and male. This puts me in the minority on the board, something I think is pretty awesome, since it's not a common feeling.

Add a year to that and you have me.

As for the atmosphere on this board, I'd have to agree... it's practically utopian.  Everyone is accepting of everyone else regardless of who they are and what they do.

If only the real world was as open-minded.

Well, for what it's worth, I wouldn't have guessed that to be your age, so you're clearly well-spoken.

I was starting to feel diverse until I read Blade and Imaginary Bad Bug's posts.

Except I'm 25 and sexuality wise I'm in the "Meh, I'll get around to that" category.

I seriously doubt anyone here cares about your age, as long as you don't act like most of the 15 year olds we've met. I'm not a big fan of lumping people into groups they don't belong in.

And as for the rest of my..erm, stats. I'm probably the only person here who grew up in South Africa, but oddly enough when I was nine we moved to a suburb of Cincinnati which could be for intents and purposes the American South. As far as my age, I'm 21 and it's kind of refreshing being a couple years younger than a large percentage of the forum because I was starting to feel internet old.

15, eh? I'm just a year older, yet I have a lot less insightful things to say than you do. (: So age doesn't need to present something other than how long you've lived so far. Oh... I could be considered as part of a minority, since I'm from Croatia. I can speak (other than English) Croatian, a tiny bit of Japanese (a very, very slow learner...) and a lot of bad German. Cause German grammar is complicated just to be evil. >:

Well, I'm just glad your reactions weren't something along the lines of, "That explains a lot." :3

Oops, forgot to mention my language status - native English speaker, I know some extremely basic Mandarin, and I'm enrolled in a Japanese class.

My gawd Mandarin is gorgeous. I can't really speak anything but I can sing it most of the time. O.o

Yeah, I sort of fall into the basic category. White, female, 21, however I am straight.

I seriously forget sometimes how long this series has been with me. I'd say it feels like we're married, but the sex hasn't gone downhill.

If anything, the sex can only get better!