When trying to introduce your six-year-old little sister to My Little Pony, please remember that there's always the chance that she will call you a baby and tells your parents. Dinner will be awkward.
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the truth can hurt sometimes!
Keep strong, brony!
Finding out your six year old sister is cooler than you must hurt.
about 20% cooler?
Finding out your six year old sister behaves like a six year old, not a surprise. Finding out some random teen or adult on the internet behaves like a six year old? That should be a surprise. And I’m talking about you.
Agreed, these bronies need to grow the f*ck up already and stop being so creepy already!
Actually he was telling the hater to grow up.
but that would make him look gay, why would he do something like that?
waggle, I would like you to meet pot and kettle… they have a lesson for you.
are those more of your queer pony characters?
You just divided by zero.
Have a nice day
Brony and proud man brony and proud!
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OH! it’s a brohoof. ok.
At first I thought it looked like 2 people happily looking at a v**ina. lol
Pegasister and proud! Though I have to be careful when watching it now.
Lol, I got both my little sister and brother watching it.
Guess you got lucky?
That is the worst aspect of this fandom, you can’t even depend on the target demographic, because they lack the maturity to leave it at “I won’t judge you.”
Then again, so do adults, but when an adult acts like a kid, you’ve already won.
Time to begin the assimilations…(evil laugh).
God bronies… Seriously? I used to be a m-an-ch-ild like you guys, but then I grew the fu-ck up.
“Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
In other words, you’re not “growing up”. You are, in fact, still behaving like a child.
Matt, I deeply apologize for offending your fifty year old sensibilities about watching your closeted furry TV show.
He was Quoting C.S Lewis – Author of Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Tales of Nania.
Who was also best friends with J.R.R. Tolken.
Another quote that is as servicable is.
“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest”
The Brony enthusiasm is currently being study by most commecial networks because of the speed at which is was accepted by the broadest fan base and how this can start to be applied to other shows – so while many people have issues with the show it’s nature may start to influence more shows in their production.
But if you are so dead set against them the most the largest portion of the fanbase will last is around 4-5 seasons before the standard drop off.
Actually you’re thinking of another Lewis, Lewis Caroll, who wrote the Alice books. C.S. Lewis just wrote Narnia. And Tolkien’s childrens books were the best books ever. Farmer Giles of Ham is hugely underrated. And to the original poster of this thread – I know myself many a manchild, and most of them hate MLP and anything else that makes them look “babyish”.
Spongebob: “What? SUPER Weeny Hut Juniors?? I’m not a weeny, I’m a MAN!”
Slightly mixed up there – Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass were written by Lewis Carroll, not CS Lewis. I used to get them mixed up sometimes myself; it’s easy to do. So which one is being quoted here?
That is a quote by C.S. Lewis.
Thought it sounded more like him. Lewis Carroll was a bit mad, bless him. CS Lewis always was rather pompous. Bless him, too…
Telling other people what they should and shouldn’t watch based on YOUR personal taste isn’t exactly “growing up.”
You said it.
Stanislav, dude, stop hatin’.
keep this trash on your own creepy site and you wont get any hate at all!
Wow, you must be mind-bogglingly insecure in your masculinity, or maybe some other aspect of your sexuality, if a 100% harmless kids’ show having an adult fanbase freaks you out this much.
I like to think of Waggle as a really angry woman. Try it…
cool story bro!
ah yes, the typical brony response
‘yes, i might like watching pink ponies and rainbows in a kids show, but YOU are the one with issues’
makes perfect sense. Besides, if you want to indulge in your weird obsession thats perfectly fine, i just dont want to hear about it
What exactly makes it creepy? I mean the show is this tame as it could possibly get being a kid show and all. I still watch G.I. Joe reruns every once in a while for nostalgia. Am I creepy too? Why?
for the same reason a grown man dressing up in a pink tutu (spelling?) and having a tea party with stuffed animals is looked at as being strange and unusual. I have a feeling if you walked in on a friend doing that you probably wouldnt look at him the same way again
Those things aren’t really comparable you know. A man in a tutu would have to have gone out and bought said tutu, making sure it fit and stuff. Then they’d have to go out and find/buy stuffed animals and a tea set. All a fan of the MLP show would have to do however is turn on the tv. There’s a huge difference in effort there. I think it’s probably a good thing so many adults like the show, actually. Parents should watch shows like that with thier kids so as to supervise them and help explain the lessons the show might offer. It makes it so much more meaningful when the parent is actually engaged as well rather than bored out of thier skull.
so your argument is it’s ok to act like a strange weirdo as long as it’s easy? makes perfect sense!
also, i am fine with parents watching it with their kids. My problem is all the weirdo teenager/early adults without kids who download it, watch it all the time, change their avatars to ponies, and bring up brony stuff nonstop (broo-hoof, everypony, etc). you see the pics from that brony convention? i highly doubt that many of the fans were watching for their kids
No, I’m just saying there’s a world of difference between finding a guy in a tutu convening with his stuffed toys and someone who could possibly claim that he just left the tv on that channel.
If it’s not hurting anyone, I don’t see any problem with weird practices/people. It takes all kinds, and I personally like weird things because they keep life interesting. I understand you hate the show, but all my friends love to watch something I can’t stand, and I don’t think less of THEM. Who’s it hurting, really? Live and let live I say.
Actually, a lot of bronies got into it from other adults saying how interesting the show is, dispite its intended demographic (probably parents with children randomly talking on the internet).
After hearing that, some childless adults got interested and watched it and spread it along to more mature adults. And when it got to the level it is now, a lot of immature adults started insulting said mature adults because they tried something that adults would not generally try without a reason.
ohhhh, now i get it, it is ok to act like a creep as long as you can cover it up
“I have a feeling if you walked in on a friend doing that you probably wouldnt look at him the same way again”
Why not? I would. I’ve had situations like that, e.g. I once used my friend’s computer and he hadn’t cleared his history, and there were enough clues there to tell me that he was into some VERY “specialist” fetish porn. The sort of thing you would definitely call weird. It never made me feel any differently about him.
I don’t really get why watching a kids’ cartoon makes anyone “weird” or “creepy” or “freaky.” It would be nice if you explained it, rather than saying that it’s for the same reason that something else freaks YOU out (not other people, you) and I have no idea why that would freak you out, either. Men watching MLP obviously isn’t that strange, judging by the number saying they do it. Just because a man doesn’t perfectly fit YOUR ideal of how a man should be, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be that way. That’s how bigotry starts: asserting that it’s “wrong” to be different from you in some way without any reasoning behind that assertion. These guys are not interfering with your life, so why not let them alone?
well yes, but we have already determined that you are a strange little fellow.
Also, if you want to watch it whatever, what i cant stand is the guys who take it to far and run out quoting it all the time, posting pictures of ponies all over, and never shutting up about it in some weird way to justify watching a little girls show. if you have ever said “bro-hoof”, “anypony”, or tried to get someone else to watch it, you are weird
“well yes, but we have already determined that you are a strange little fellow.” – Have we? I’m glad to hear it. I wouldn’t want to be boring…
What we HAVEN’T already determined is why it offends you so much to see other men behaving in ways that don’t fit your ideal of a man. If it were little girls behaving in this way, you wouldn’t mind, or so you say. So little girls quoting MLP and chucking pictures around is OK but guys doing it isn’t? Given that it’s only cartoon pictures and quotes, why would this be – unless you are so incredibly insecure in yourself that any man who doesn’t act macho really freaks you out?
If you are that insecure, you don’t have to say anything – it’s nobody’s business but your own. But I hope that changes for you.
in fairness you may have a point, i am so used to having testosterone i think that liking sports/action movies/women is completely normal, i dont often think of the men who are lacking in male hormones and that liking little girl shows and wearing pink dresses might be normal for them. you are a wise person xebi, a wise strange little person
I had no idea this conversation was still going, props to you
Gender boundaries are very interesting, aren’t they? But I don’t think cartoon preference REALLY has much to do with gender. Now, I am very definitely female, and sports and action movies are two of my favourite things. I’m not very testosteroney. I’m very small, not at all muscular and have very little body hair, for example
although I am really not into women, even as friends (I don’t seem to have much in common with any woman) – you could say I’m a tomboy. My boyfriend (for some reason) found that very attractive when we first met. It’s considered acceptable for me to go to football matches every week and yell and drink beer – I know other women who do that. But for some reason it isn’t so well accepted if it’s the other way around. Anyway, I don’t think it’s very helpful or at all well-informed/accurate to make imaginary correlations between levels of sex hormones and children’s cartoon preferences!
“So little girls quoting MLP and chucking pictures around is OK but guys doing it isn’t?”
to be fair, little girls are the intended audience so that would be normal
whereas adult males are not the intended audience (being much much older and male), so it’s a bit creepy when they get to the level of obsession waggle is talking about
scratch that, very creepy
Seeing as how the show has many references to older shows, I think they somewhat intended it to an older audience as well. This may be to entertain the parents of said little girls who have to watch it with them, but it explains why an older audience can enjoy it on their own as well.
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I think “abused” is a better term at this point…
On the plus side, you don’t need to watch episodes in secrecy any more.
Your little sister is a bitch and needs to be flogged. What little girl doesn’t like ponies?
one who has more testosterone than her brother
Then he doesn’t have to worry – they’ll be able to bond over him teaching her to shave her face as soon as she hits puberty.
thats gross, first that he shaves his legs and second that he would show his sister how to. You bronies sure are an odd bunch
I agree with Trill.
serves you right. i wish bronies would just finally realize how gay liking it is. how isn’t it as obvious to them as it is to everyone else?
GTFO!
I’m not be a brony, but I respect them!
“I’m not be a brony.” You should have just stopped there.
This also for how gay your grammar is.
Oh, and gay isn’t the synonym of “stupid”.
says the person that just called my grammar “gay”
and YES, i really DID mean “gay,” WHY WOULD A CARTOON ABOUT PONIES NOT BE GAY?! HOW DO YOU PEOPLE NOT REALIZE THIS?!
Because a cartoon about ponies is about ponies and not about men being sexually attracted to other men, maybe?
Do you know what “gay” means?
I suppose you’re right if you mean gay as in gaily-coloured. Those ponies are quite pretty really.
But in the way you’re using it you obviously mean gay as a negative term. It’s irksome.
OMG society is so mean! omg omg
there, now you can quietly go away until someone uses “indian giver”, “chinese fire drill”, refers to a weak man as “girly”, or another term that upsets you
sounds like somepony is a bit angry that he hasn’t reached maturity yet :3
sense this makes none
ORLY? Your sense of maturity is ‘doing what everypony says you should do’. I’m sorry but if that is what you would do as a child.
*sense this makes plenty
fix’d it!
What makes all you “brony” commenters above think that this is a guy? I assumed it was a female for some reason.
When I was six I was OBSESSED with My Little Pony. I used to save up my pocket money every week until I had enough to buy one – it took me several months so I got maybe three a year plus one for a Christmas present. They were about £4 in those days, ha ha. I think I had 20p a week pocket money
I had fifteen ponies by the time I was 9, and felt sorry for my friend who loved horses and came from a poorer family than me, so I gave them all to her. Part of me has regretted giving them away ever since, and I’m nearly 30 now…
because the new show is primarily watched by adult males, instead of the target audience of young girls
Is that a fact? Well, I’m female, in the wrong country, don’t have a TV and am too old even for stuff like that, in fact I’m so old that I didn’t know there was a TV series
When I was a kid, they were just toys.,
yeah, it’s pretty creepy
the target audience is very obviously young girls, but the main actual audience is 18-30 year old males
And how do you know exactly who the “main” audience is, unless you’re a TV ratings researcher? The 18-30 males are the ones who post on the internet, not the little girls, so you WOULD hear more from them.
I think it’s only “creepy” to guys who aren’t comfortable enough with their own masculinity or self-identity to realise that it doesn’t actually matter which TV shows you like to watch, and that not everyone has to be clones of your own ideal self.
mod ate my links
from the wall street journal:
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from wired:
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just add the h t t p whatevs and take out the spaces
btw, I’m perfectly fine with my masculinity and identity. there is certainly something off though with a show intended for little girls being not just watched but *obsessed* over by adult males
I checked those links : they don’t show your point.
Sure, some guys are very enthusiastic about MLP… but then again, some are the same way about stamps. Why are stamp collectors more widely accepted? The “target audience” of stamps is letters, why are grown men obsessing over them?
The fact that you can’t accept that a grown man can like whatever he wants indicates that you AREN’T “fine with [your] masculinity and identity”. If you were, you wouldn’t be bothered by things being “childish” or “effeminite”.
- Even “manly” men get childish (for example, over sports), so the fact the target audience are children shouldn’t be a problem.
- Masculinity, on the other hand, has nothing to do with your interests or hobbies. A sports fan is no more manly than an antique collector. As such, showing an interest in a cartoon doesn’t take away from your masculinity, and if you think it does, then you are obviously insecure in your masculinity.
*nods* It’s very important to allow one’s inner child to get a look-in. You become incredibly staid and boring otherwise.
Usually, children don’t think as quickly that something is too childish for older people. If MLP:FiM existed back when I was little, and if my older sister watched it and she’d introduce me to it, I probably would’ve liked it, and I wouldn’t laugh at my sister for watching a show made for children…
tell it like it is, lil sis
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Hey assholes! Heres a middle finger! Its especially for you. Now return to your homophobic football games and let the adults talk.
Dude, you just called football “homophobic,” you do realize what that means, right? Guessing by your statement I’m guessing not.
I always thought football embraced and encouraged the enjoyment of watching two men wrangle and grope each other.
I’m sure he meant “homoerotic”. At least that’s what I mean when I describe American football.
No, NFSfox said to return to his homophobic football game… he/she never said ALL football games were homophobic.
homophobic football games? what in the hell is that supposed to mean?
A group of gaybashers watching and/or playing football together. (aka, grinding their bodies together)
how the hell do you play football? actually i dont want to know, keep that one to yourself
Here’s an idea: don’t be a hater just because you’re exposed to haters.
Football rocks (and I mean American football; while soccer has more right to the name, it has no right to exist, being a boring game with less strategy than the average Pokemon battle).
And MLP:FIM is one of the two best animated shows currently on TV, the other being Adventure Time.
Gasp, someone can like both of those? Did your tiny little hardwired us-vs.-them, raised-by-’80s-teen-movies brain just explode?
If you really think football (REAL football) is boring and has little strategy, then I’m sorry for you and the tripe you must have been watching in your country. Come over to the UK and watch my team.
ha, so it’s not ok for people to criticize those who obsess over MLP, because it’s ok for people to like whatever they choose
but it’s perfectly ok for you to trash the sports other people like, because… f*ck logic?
You serious? I didn’t trash anything at all. If you actually read these posts properly, it was Wagahai who was trashing football, not me. He (or she) said that “soccer…has no right to exist, being a boring game with less strategy than the average Pokemon battle.” THAT is trashing, and he is perfectly entitled to express this opinion. Saying someone is “creepy” because of what they like is not so cool if it’s perfectly innocent. And I merely said that what he said wasn’t true where I come from. Boring is subjective, but strategy isn’t, and it’s all about the strategy here. Come on, I even invited him to watch a better version of something he doesn’t like to see if he likes it when done properly!
“the tripe you must have been watching in your country”
also, I never said he didn’t trash soccer
Um… it was he who said it was a load of crap, not me. I was merely repeating the opinion HE stated, of something HE had seen and I hadn’t. HE was the one who said it was boring, and I basically said I was sorry to hear it was boring. How can you turn that into me doing the trashing?! Weird logic.
American football: repetitive violence constantly interrupted by committee meetings.
As opposed to hockey : repetitive violence.
CONSTANT violence, surely
Aw how sad! Watching the show with siblings is lots of fun.
My whole family (well, except my dad) watches the new episodes on Saturday mornings.
Just show her this one
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