Feb
4th
2013
I'm a Brony, and... I'm Sorry. · 11:14pm Feb 4th, 2013
Over at The Round Stable, wordsmith Headless Horse has posted a rather provocative and introspective article about the adult fandom, and its negative effects on the show. Don't take it as a slight, it isn't, but as an eye opener that we are not the only ones who watch and enjoy the show.
http://www.roundstable.com/2013/02/04/im-a-brony-and-im-sorry/
If you enjoy the article, I heartily reccomend signing up on the forums to discuss it. Best pony forum on the internet in my opinion.
my lord...
I can't see it; can you copy-pasta the article (it's blocked by school servers)?
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It's like 10k words, you are going to have to wait. That, or set your DNS servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4; we switched domain names and that may be causing the problems.
well, I guess I'm not the only one with that opinion of whats happened then. Finally.
So, summarizing the article a bit, some of the points raised are:
About the Brony fandom:
- Faust orginally wanted the show to a actual good show made for girls, because girls shows are usually pretty dull (ok, they are)
- We bronies are taking away her original goal, by making this show "our", and therefor the original point of making a show that girls could have as their great show is nullified, as a majority of the fanbase are adult (often) male fans. And as long as 'we' continue leading the fandom of MLP, the girls won't be able to call the show "theirs".
About media overall:
- Girls are split out from todays media. The writes examplifies this that there are usually roles like
where beeing a girl actually is a role itself.
- Shows made for girls are made low-budget, because they are "girly". Shows made for boys have higher budgets and therefor can sometimes attract girls as fans too. Here is where bronies return into the argument. Now there is a good show made for girls, and, then the bronies are instead the majority of fandom.
About social engineering:
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- The genders have got split farther from eachother, and it starts early with the cartoons for kids. The shows "for boys", have a mainly male cast of characters, and maybe an eventual girl. This teaches boys early on that girls aren't important to their childhood heroes (or something alike), and therefor, makes this alienation of the opposite gender.
- [more, sorry, there was more about this topic. But, it wasn't this part that peaked my interest, so, eh
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I hope I got that summarization right. The article was good, but too long, sorry, eventhough the topic was interesting. Me, beeing still pretty new here, wasn't around in the early days of Pony. This article threw some light onto the orignal intent of the show, and, what has happened since then.
I was going to argue a bit here, but, I'm sorry, I'm going with the worst possible apology, but, well, I should be getting up within 6 hours now, and would prefer to get some sleep. I didn't expect reading through most of the article and summarizing it a bit would take up soo much time, heh.
So, I'll leave just the summarization. And, take it as it is, a random summarization on the internet. I do not claim that I bring all, or any, of the points made by the author to light in the right way. I would recommend reading the article, but, dont do it in a rush before going to sleep
Soo .. yea.. Sorry for making this pretty much pointless comment now, but, it felt like a waste starting out the summary, then just deleting it all, heh. And thanks DalTRS for sharing an interesting article as such
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Naw, the website it's on is blocked by the school network under 'games'.
I'll just wait until I get home then.
EDIT: And that's a lot of words.
wow, what a great article to read. My thanks for directing me there. I will now make a conscious effort to explain to people that part of the joy of the show is in its inherent girliness instead of glossing over that aspect of the show.
Well, the article is less provocative and more thought provoking actually and I find myself agreeing with it. Perhaps we could really help by promoting awareness instead of demanding and bemoaning so much.