So… back when I was a little girl one of my favorite shows was Sailor Moon. There is Sailor Moon porn. Somehow I survived, and still remember the show fondly.
So… have heart sad dad, all is not lost?
What “crowd” are you shoehorning me into, now?
Oh, wait. You’re saying if I defend anything related to My Little Pony, I must be a “brony”, and it’s fair game to stereotype my opinions. Have I got that right?
All I’m saying is, if your first reactions to cartoon musclemen making cartoon muscleman poses are OH NOES, BUTTSEX and MUST PROTECT THE CHILDREN, that’s on you.
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Can dubstep just freaking die already? This would have been soooo much better with some full-on gospelly diva house.
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I think the joke there is just that ponies drink tea, but drinking tea isn’t very manly, so to make it more manly you just put the teabag in your mouth and then chug boiling water.
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…which of course predated Youtube by quite a bit, and as I said this kind of thing is why I really don’t want my kids, at the ages they are, to go on Youtube looking for MLP. It’s soo much easier to find nowadays.
And yeah…I know about MLP porn. Honestly, “adults” into MLP, find some grownups to have sex with.
As an adult, honestly, if people get off on MLP, Sailor Moon or even if they hate-masturbate to pictures of Rebecca Watson, I don’t have a problem with that. As the dad of two girls, though, I’m expressing a problem I have with sexualizing and/or genderbending one of the more yay-girl-power shows out there right now. They have so little imho. Why fuck with that?
BoingBoing readership. Read the comments on the link I provided.
Ah, well. So, Boing Boing readership: As I understand it, turning the Ponies into teenage girls == reason to vomit. Turning Ponies into muscle-bound boy-toys: perfectly okay and anyone who has a problem with it is a homophobic asshole. Have I missed anything?
You talk about it as though it were the easiest thing in the world. Clearly, you have not inhabited my brain for any period of time.
Hypothesis: If we throw out the concept that it’s supposed to make Hasbro lots of money, what we’re left with is “My Little Pony” as a setting for personal play and exploration (the “My” in “My Little Pony”). It’s true that prior to this iteration, it had mostly appealed to young girls, but with the current expression being as dynamic as it currently is, it also provides a space which appeals to some adult minds for the very same purpose: play and exploration.
The fact that the play in the adult mind can venture into sexual realms is a problem, but it is also missing the point to address on its own: it is but a specific example of how current human societies mostly fail to adequately reconcile our two strong feelings about sexuality: “yes, please” from the id-like entity, but “ew, gross, no” from the superego-like entity.
Every human being who lives to adulthood will, almost without exception, have to struggle with this duality for most of his or her lifetime. Some humans even become cognitively aware of the contrast.
I suppose I’m digressing.
I can’t speak for others, but for me, the problem with turning the ponies into humans had more to do with the following:
- “Equestria Girls” had the appearance of being a clone of the financially-successful non-Hasbro toy line “Monster High”, so the spectre of Hasbro’s bottom line appeared to haunt my vision of the idea; and
- I don’t actually like the appearance of hominids. Everything is so much more interesting with them being occasionally-bipedal equids.
My question is, how does one person’s playing (which, as I expressed earlier, is kind of the point of My Little Pony) negatively impact your daughters? And are you sure that the negative impact is actually unto them, rather than unto you?
To be fair, I think that the objections to Equestria Girls were that it was produced by the actual company that runs MLP and they were scrubbing their own character’s unique personalities in favour of molding them all into a single model of ‘hip teen girls’ (example: all the girls wore foofy skirts, even vocally dress-hating Rainbow Dash and Applejack). The beefcake underwear-model spoof is very clearly a parody and not a canon product, so you can’t expect the same type of complaints.
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