SingleFringe&Sparks wrote:Liking a Show for Teen girls 13 - 16 as a male doesnt have the same stigma as a grown man liking a show for girls 6-8, because the gauge of pedophilic implications is the difference, and most "little boy" shows aren't actually gender locked. A girl can like bob the builder for what he does than who Bob specifically was, where as the Ponies are portrayed as personafied little girls in horse-bodies, with most of the attention attributes centering on them. You watch the show for them not for what they do in the show.
That's ridiculous. It only is or isn't "gender locked" because you and other people say it is. There's nothing inherent to say that one is wholly different from the other. And that's my problem with this whole thing because we as a society constantly see boy stuff as "gender neutral" and girl stuff as "just for girls." So we have this amazing hypocrisy where women are accepted and even encouraged to be into "guy stuff" while people get "weirded out" when the reverse is applied even when there's absolutely no difference. And of course you watch a show for the characters. You watch any show for the characters. Not to mention this whole idea you're posting is word-for-word the notion that "men do, women are." In other words, that men are admired for their skills while women are admired for their ability to look pretty. If that is really the case with these fans, then shame on them, but it sounds to me like you're projecting your own worldviews onto a subculture.
SingleFringe&Sparks wrote:
If all youre judging my opinion on is what little you've seen let alone all you've passed by here than you're not going to understand my position. The majority I was subjected to is on Youtube and 4Chan, the same community with all the furries. The same community that takes everything too far.
You mean the same communities that are home to DB fans that we here on Kanzenshuu are constantly embarrassed by because we feel they are immature, confrontational, and basically represent the worst attributes of our fandom? And their My Little Pony fans are the same way? Once again, forgive me if, after having spent half of my life trying to distance myself from bad Dragon Ball fans, I have a hard time accepting that as empirical evidence.
qjz123 wrote:You don't think people getting off to young female ponies is weird. Now I have no idea how many Bronies are into that kind've stuff but I would hardly compare it to the sexy fan art thread that exists hear its not like you have people posting provocative photos of a 5 year old Pan.
I'm not just comparing your claims to our thread here. I was just saying that porn exists in all fandoms, ours included. But don't think for a second that, just because it's not here (again, see my point above about different bastions of DB fans) doesn't mean sexy fanart of underage DB characters doesn't exist. Because I can guarantee you that, over the course of the past 16 years, I have run afoul of it at least once.
My point is, every single fandom has weird, creepy people in it doing things they probably shouldn't be doing. And I'm not justifying that. But while I don't have anything empirical to back my points up either, it's impossible for me to sit here on this forum of all things and judge an entire fandom that has so much in common with us to the point where I've been able to take every single negative criticism that's been posted here to MLP and apply it to us. And I'm certainly not going to judge it based on the sample size of YouTube and 4Chan of all places!
. It's like "LOOK AT THE COLOURS COLOURS HERP A DERP FLASHY OOOH AAAH." Reminds me of how Sonic Lost World went to far with colours as well. Or in other terms the Faulconer "Never stop playing music" exept in visuals. "We must have flashy colours all the time or else people will lose interest."
