Button Mash was sitting in awe of all the video games before him. He always liked going to the Gameshop to get some cool new games for his console. Now that his mother was wandering in a store nearby, he was left there to choose which new game to buy. However, like usual, his money restricted him to one video game per visit.
"Oh...so many choices..." he struggled to decide.
There was, indeed, many choices. Could he get the newest Magic's Calling, or the popular Pony Combat, or the even better Mare Fighter? So many choices. His eyes darted to each cover, every single one calling his name.
As he ran his hoof by all the games, trying to decide his future, a unicorn mare walked into the shop. Of course, she was pink and had her usual scowl. It was none other than Starlight Glimmer, and she looked pissed.
"All these games simply display the patriarchy in our society," she grumbled. "All this over-sexualizing of mares. It's disgusting."
Button Mash was too engrossed in his decision-making that he did not hear the low complaint from the unicorn. He awed at the new YCOM or the Funario Kart. So many games, too little money.
"Can I help you?" the cashier behind the counter lazily asked Starlight.
"I am here to issue a complaint against the games," Starlight said with false dignity.
"Uhh...what's wrong with them? Do ya buy a glitched copy?" the cashier asked without any emotion.
"No. They operate perfectly fine. I am here to complain about their content. Specifically, the portrayal of female characters."
"Well, sorry to burst ya bubble, but I ain't the guy to complain to, that'd be the designers," he answered.
"Oh..." Starlight sounded disappointed. "Then where do I go?"
The cashier leaned back slowly. "Well, I told the previous mare who was offended to go to Vanhoover, but she went south, so I don't know where she went."
"Another? You mean, one like me?"
"Yeah, her name was Sugarbelle-something. She came in here all steamed and then bought Dead or Alive and left."
Starlight rolled her eyes. "I'm going to have a chat with her..."
Button Mash walked up to the counter and placed the game he had chosen on it. The cashier took notice of the young colt and turned his attention to him. Starlight also noticed him and looked at the game cover. Just as she suspected, the cover had a mare in sci-fi armor, posing in a very raunchy manner. The gun, the armor placement, and her smile all showed Starlight what she was dealing with. There was nothing else to the game's cover than that sexualized mare.
As Button Mash reached into his saddlebag for bits, Starlight smacked the case off the counter with her hoof. The action was so sudden that both the lazy cashier and the now frightened colt gaped at her.
"What was that for?" the cashier groaned.
"A little colt like you has no reason to be playing these horrendous games made by perverted stallions," Starlight coldly told the brown colt.
"Uhh...uhh...I didn't mean anything by it..." he croaked.
"Oh! Now that you see what a true mare is like, you cower in fear, eh? Guess what, kid, we aren't like the horny fantasies your little game thinks we are!"
"I see that!"
"Do ya huh?" Starlight poked him with a hoof. "Are you seeing the signs of the patriarchy? Making little colts like you grow up into sexist morons?"
"Uh...maybe?"
Starlight grabbed the game cover and shoved it into Button's snout. "Look at the big mare butts! Look at them!"
"I'm looking!" he wailed.
"Of course you are! You like them! You perverted little gamer! These games get more and more perverted. Soon you'll wank off to them!"
"Alright, Miss Glimmer! I won't get the game! I won't get it!" Button cried.
"That's better. Now go pick something much more sensitive and respectable than this porn war simulator."
Button nodded and instead of going to pick another game, he ran from the store. The cashier sighed as he lost a customer. Starlight gave a satisfied grin and raised her head in pride.
"Why ya do that, lady?" the cashier demanded. "Let the kid play his games yo!"
"He is not a kid, he is a foal. Please do not mix up unique races, please," Starlight simply answered.
"Wha-"
Starlight interrupted him. "And you assume that I should be addressed as 'lady.' I must warn you, some do not appreciate being thrown into one gender or another. I was not offended by your addressing me, but a questionable pony could. Please be considerate."
"Wha-"
Starlight hushed him with a hoof and turned around to leave the store. Right in the entrance, however, was Button's mom with the colt behind her back legs. Her frown was deep and intimidating. Starlight held her smug look and waved at the mother.
"No need to thank me, I understand. I was simply doing my duty to keep the boy clean and not sexist," she said with sincerity.
"Buy my son the game," Button's mom said sternly.
"Oh I know. Now...what?" Starlight's ears went back in confusion.
"Buy my son the game," she repeated exactly.
"Now why would I do that? The game he chose was not appropriate for his age or gender."
"That's for me to decide," Button's mom stuck a hoof into Starlight's fluffy chest.
Starlight remembered the certain fire that was in Cadance's eyes and decided to not fight the angry mother. She took her bits out and bought the game for the little colt. The mother never smiled nor said "thank you" and they went on their way. Starlight stood in the shop a bit shocked and a bit scared.
"Hehe, guess that's what ya get," the cashier chuckled.
"Shut it, you prick..." Starlight snapped. "I'm not done with those two yet..."
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