Who cares what ignorant people think?
Okay, well, that's fine.
But here's the thing, and I'm not saying this of anyone specific here, though I do know some people through XI and online that this applies to:
You can't have that attitude
and complain that you can't find "the right person" or "people to hang with" or whatever.
At some point you have to either accept how niche your interests are relative to those around you.
Trust me, growing up I was a pretty angry kid because everyone liked baseball and football and no one *** understood why I was so fascinated with Tolkien and all the other nerdy ***I was into.
I just feel like this is a source of a lot of the derision and bitterness you see with certain subcultures in our country.
Like guys who can't stand that most girls don't like Rush and get mad about it.