Our Little Pony

[Moonlight Butterfly]

wow, i didnt know this was happening. after years of women, justifiably, being upset over the fact that men objectify female cosplayers, females are now doing the same thing to men just for wearing a shirt with a picture of a pony on it. this is not the kind of equality we should be working towards...

It's not really happening it's sarcasm

This is pretty much how women get treated if they like video games/ go to cons...

Bronies are a great comparison as they are into something that traditionally has a female demographic.

(I love MLP FIM btw )

oops completely failed at picking up the sarcasm through text. guess i wont be getting my cutie mark in reading...

No worries judging by some of the other posts in the thread it has nearly everypony confuzzled

 

[00slash00]

For many a Brony, the show is a beautiful, positive thing in their lives.

Is this for realsies? I've watched the show and its a lot of things. Beautiful, though? I've seen more beauty in a cat turd. Seriously, I took a picture of one the other day. I can post it if you want.

I'll give you positive. You're welcome.

I'm not quite sure what this thread is about, though. Oh right, the Critical Miss comic. Good stuff.

Keep on hating bro. People like you are just one of those things the rest of us have to tolerate.

We're the ones who have to tolerate Bronies, the Herpes of fandoms.

so what youre saying is, you arent the biggest fan of the show. thats cool. for me personally, the show has had a positive impact on my life. but i realize the show isnt for everyone and i appreciate the fact that you at least gave the show a chance

What I'm saying is that you're a virus that spreads with just the slightest contact, that even a simple reference to rainbows will draw you out, and that my most fervent wish is that you and the Twitards will wipe each other out over the use of the word "Twilight".

with all due respect, if you dont enjoy dealing with bronies, why did you come to a thread that is specifically about bronies? i understand you wanting to throw in your two cents about how much you hate bronies, but if we disgust you so much, wouldnt it have been better for your mental well being to just avoid this thread?

That's the thing. It's not ABOUT bronies. It's just using bronies as a metaphor for how the outliers in the demographic of a fandom are discriminated against. The brony is being treated as a sexual object and 'not a true ponyfan' in the same way that a gamergirl gets treated as a sexual object and 'not a true gamer'.

okay but regardless, you had to know that a comic which contained the subject of bronies or my little pony in general, would have a lot of bronies commenting on it and if you find bronies so hard to tolerate, it seems like you would probably assume that it would be in your best interest to ignore the comment section

 

[Easton Dark]

I admit... I dressed my boyfriend up like Spike and had my way with him.

Please tell me you were dressed as Rarity ...

Hell no. Twilight Sparkle. She's obviously better for him anyway.

Don't tell your boyfriend, but... I love you. Run away with me.

My favorite ship with my favorite characters. Ah, we are kindred spirits ma petite pomme de terre.

 

[Lucane]

Or maybe just likes looking fashionable/sexy/like-all-her-friends. Let people dress how they want.

You missed the entire point of the article the OP is attempting to flame. Just like the OP and the comic, you're assuming sexism when the actual point of the article was to flame people who go to events purely for attention. It's not about cosplayers or women--it's about bothbabes that don't give a fuck about the convention. The actual article says that numerous times. It's a criticism of the boothbabe culture, wherein people dress sexy and act provocatively to play on the human urge to get horny.

The comic misses the point so hard it may as well have aimed in the opposite direction. Again, people see a criticism that happens to involve women and jump aboard the "zomg, sexist!" train.

(I still haven't read the whole article... yet.)

So you're saying the article isn't about women who dress normally and go to conventions or ones with Con related clothing like a t-shirt from/about a show/comic/etc. or ones who dress up like characters who had to pay to be there or even invited for free and do one of the former, but just Booth babes who are hired workers doing a job requiring them to wear a "uniform", be friendly and most of all attract attention to their general area to promote their employers product(s). Last I checked it wasn't a crime to not like or even hate something or even the main point/purpose of your job (I.E.: video games if you work at Gamestop or Television if you work at Bestbuy) It can only be a gig for them or they can be lucky enough to enjoy the stuff they're promoting If they do then saying that them being attractive and flashy isn't a chance to say they don't belong here (clearly)and if they are not fans you still can't say that because it's their job to be that.

Edit: Read it

Okay... as a guy I'm offended.

So the article says "some women" just decide to go to conventions purely for attention and to pray on the interest of weak willed men there... what's new about that.Some women do do that it doesn't matter where they are in a mall,a movie theatre, theme park, or even a parade(watching it not in it) attention seekers usually like to get attention.Hating them for it is like hating the color black for being dark. Also, nerds can like dressing sexy/attractive and not want to start a relationship with someone they meet that day too, so shunning a group of people (which can I can only think of as considered as be female,attractive[(above)average to highly],and dressing in Convention related clothing) is a very poor way to say someone doesn't belong.

 

[snowfi6916]

I love the butthurt in this thread.

 

[snowfi6916]

Sigh, nevermind. I had a rant towards an earlier poster, but it seems he has been suspended, so it would be pointless.

Carry on.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

wow, i didnt know this was happening. after years of women, justifiably, being upset over the fact that men objectify female cosplayers, females are now doing the same thing to men just for wearing a shirt with a picture of a pony on it. this is not the kind of equality we should be working towards...

The situation in the comic did not and generally does not happen. Genders were reversed to illustrate how it is wrong.

 

[chadachada123]

wow, i didnt know this was happening. after years of women, justifiably, being upset over the fact that men objectify female cosplayers, females are now doing the same thing to men just for wearing a shirt with a picture of a pony on it. this is not the kind of equality we should be working towards...

The situation in the comic did not and generally does not happen. Genders were reversed to illustrate how it is wrong.

But it doesn't happen in my experience with the genders reversed, either.

I met plenty of female bronies during my last anime convention, and there was nary a hint of sexism from anyone, boys or girls.

 

[Threeseventyfive]

This thread is the definition of irony.

A comic is posted about tolerance using characters from a show about tolerance, and then the trolls, haters and militant bronies show up spreading hate and making everyone look like a twat.

 

[saruman31]

It seems i have to show up at some conventions. And all it takes is a pony shirt. Pretty nice.

 

[Pinkamena]

This thread is the definition of irony.

A comic is posted about tolerance using characters from a show about tolerance, and then the trolls, haters and militant bronies show up spreading hate and making everyone look like a twat.

What did you expect? You're on the internet, son.

 

[Kavonde]

It seems i have to show up at some conventions. And all it takes is a pony shirt. Pretty nice.

Well, it was a red shirt, so maybe they thought the guy was cosplaying as Big Macintosh [http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac26/RexAeterna/M4J3x.png].

After all, most Applejack cosplayers are just pretty girls in cowgirl outfits, so it stands to reason that her brother would just be a dude in jeans and a T-shirt.

 

[Threeseventyfive]

This thread is the definition of irony.

A comic is posted about tolerance using characters from a show about tolerance, and then the trolls, haters and militant bronies show up spreading hate and making everyone look like a twat.

What did you expect? You're on the internet, son.

That doesn't excuse all these morons from being morons.

Here's my advice to both sides:

HATERS: You don't have to watch the show, nobody is forcing you to. Just ignore the bronies if you don't like them. Trolling people is just going to make things worse for everyone.

MILITANT BRONIES: Stop trying to bully people into becoming bronies, you're just going to make them hate you. Remember, we're here to spread LOVE AND TOLERANCE, not more hate. Stop making all bronies look like idiots.

 

[Alterego-X]

This thread is the definition of irony.

A comic is posted about tolerance using characters from a show about tolerance, and then the trolls, haters and militant bronies show up spreading hate and making everyone look like a twat.

The word "tolerance" didn't ever appear in MLP.

 

[Soak]

I... ehm... well... what?
Sorry, but right now, i am somewhat confused!
The comic by itself, kinda funny, i tried to get the reference, read the article, read a lot of comments, but now i have even less an idea of what this is trying to express, who is arguing with whom about what exactly and so on.
I would like to ask if someone can explain this to me, but i guess it would only leave me with all clarities eliminated.
Yeah...

 

[Threeseventyfive]

This thread is the definition of irony.

A comic is posted about tolerance using characters from a show about tolerance, and then the trolls, haters and militant bronies show up spreading hate and making everyone look like a twat.

The word "tolerance" didn't ever appear in MLP.

Okay, maybe it didn't but still my point stands.

The show's entire message is about friendship. Are the radical bronies trying to be friends with non-bronies? No, they're trying to bully them into being what they want them to be.

The radical bronies stopped trying to get rid of hate using friendship and began using hate to fight the hate, resulting in a giant shitstorm of hatred from both sides.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

This thread is the definition of irony.

A comic is posted about tolerance using characters from a show about tolerance, and then the trolls, haters and militant bronies show up spreading hate and making everyone look like a twat.

What did you expect? You're on the internet, son.

That doesn't excuse all these morons from being morons.

Here's my advice to both sides:

HATERS: You don't have to watch the show, nobody is forcing you to. Just ignore the bronies if you don't like them. Trolling people is just going to make things worse for everyone.

MILITANT BRONIES: Stop trying to bully people into becoming bronies, you're just going to make them hate you. Remember, we're here to spread LOVE AND TOLERANCE, not more hate. Stop making all bronies look like idiots.

It's not gonna happen, mate. As Pinkamena so excellently put "What did you expect? You're on the internet, son." These people aren't going to change.
Fortunately, there are people, like myself, who dislike this whole Brony thing but generally keep it to ourselves.
Occasionally when I'm mad and need to vent Bronies get caught in the crossfire but I don't actively go out of my way to piss on every brony's parade.
Though if there actually was a parade outside my house I wouldn't hesitate to throw piss-filled condoms out the window. I hate parades. so loud and obnoxious...

 

[AniThari]

Aw, but I like stupid sexy mudcrab - does this mean we'll never see it again? I was holding out hope... /sadness

I never did like the would-be gatekeeper types. We can all enjoy whatever we want at whatever level we want. Some -not all just some/a few- geeks may not know a character inside and out but they like to cosplay so they saw an opportunity to make an amazing costume and strut their stuff on the con floor. That to me is just another gateway to fully geeking out over a subject.

There is a difference between policing the community and ridding it of the unsavory types (i.e. the immature jerks who would be fired in real life if they spoke like they did on the internet) and people who are expressing their own inner geek.

Seriously, if I put on my jaded glasses for a minute here to me it?s like this guy would get angry at the seven year old who doesn't know about the original Pokémon rather than - I don't know - try to introduce the kid to the new red/blue/green revived version that came out.

Forget "gatekeepers" the geek community is open to everyone and anyone who wants to share their nerdy side without the fear of being harassed or belittled because of their supposed 'nerd cred' or lack thereof.

*removes jaded glasses* Man I can't wait for Dishonored - mind you I think I'll wait a while until the bugs get ironed out before I actually play it. Totally think there will be a few in the first week, it is just too awesome not to have a gamebreaker - amirite?

Just wondering, besides Lara, there any other games with female protagonists coming out anytime soon? I can't really think about any right now... *eyes glaze over a little* Does Bioshock: Infinite count? Hm...

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

*looks around*

Wow, the mere mention of that MLP show and controversy in the same post will light the internet on fire. I knew the show was revolutionary but this is ridiculous.

 

[Otaku World Order]

Wow... Rainbow Dash has a hell of a raunchy side there.

This thread is the definition of irony.

A comic is posted about tolerance using characters from a show about tolerance, and then the trolls, haters and militant bronies show up spreading hate and making everyone look like a twat.

What did you expect? You're on the internet, son.

That doesn't excuse all these morons from being morons.

Here's my advice to both sides:

HATERS: You don't have to watch the show, nobody is forcing you to. Just ignore the bronies if you don't like them. Trolling people is just going to make things worse for everyone.

MILITANT BRONIES: Stop trying to bully people into becoming bronies, you're just going to make them hate you. Remember, we're here to spread LOVE AND TOLERANCE, not more hate. Stop making all bronies look like idiots.

Yes, as a wise man once said....

This world is made of.... Love and Peace!!!!!!!!!!!

*looks around*

I hope I'm not the only one who gets that.