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// Motherly Portrayal 
// Story: I'm Offensive and I Take Offense 
// by Gapeagle 
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Starlight pulled out her binoculars and watched Button Mash and his mother from a nearby bush. A very unknown fact about Starlight was that she was an excellent stalker. Her tongue hung out of the side of her mouth as she determinedly spied on the mother and son.

"Think she can be a bad parent and get away with it? Think again, milkpusher," Starlight chuckled and then paused. "Oh bloody horseapples! 'Milkpusher' is a slur against cows. Woo, glad no one was there to hear me."

"Except me."

"GAH!"

Starlight jumped out of the push and turned around in a defensive stance. Before her was Twilight, who had a raised brow and a suspicious frown. At seeing the princess, Starlight didn't relax and held her stance like she was a crane. Twilight cocked her head and kept her bemused look.

"What are you doing?" she asked with a sigh.

"I am going to prove that video games make young colts grow up to be sexist!" Starlight answered triumphantly.

"By hiding in a bush?"

Starlight relaxed her stance as she searched for a valid answer. "Uhh....yeah?"

"Alright, who are you spying on?"

Starlight crouched back in the bush. "Come and see."

Twilight hesitated before joining the unicorn in the bush. She took Starlight's binoculars and looked at the peaceful house where Button Mash and his mother lived. The Princess of Friendship did not seem impressed and gave the binoculars back to the unicorn without a word.

"You think Button's sexist?" she asked.

"Of course! and his mother too," Starlight answered.

"A mare is sexist to mares?" Twilight frowned.

Starlight quieted her with a hoof. "It's more common than you may think."

"How would video games make them sexist?"

Starlight cleared her throat. "Simply put, it's the portrayal of mares in video games. They all always the object to rescue, the damsel in distress, the object that the stallion player character wants to bang for body only. They are sluts, whores, and completely dependent on stallions. Do you ever see any mares in the Royal Guard in video games? I didn't think so."

"You know that stallions take up 98% of the Royal Guard, right?"

"Hmph! I knew it. We live in a stallion-led society. I say down with this patriarchal society. It's in our video games, media, and our government," Starlight spat.

"Starlight, you do realize that all the major rulers of Equestria are mares right?"

The unicorn huffed. "The military is where the true power is at. Until there are 50% mare and 50% stallion, it is unequal."

"How about we just have a 'unicorn only' military corps?" Twilight giggled.

"Don't even go there..."

Starlight peered through the binoculars once more. Little Button Mash was playing his games in his room. Just as usual, she thought. Twilight was still a bit confused by the unicorn's behavior, but then again, it was Starlight. 

"You know it's kinda creepy that you're looking through a colt's window, right?" Twilight said.

"Makes me look a pedo, I know. But as you know, I am asexual, so this spying of mine has nothing to do with that. This is strictly business."

"Putting it like that makes this even more creepy."

"Shush!"

Twilight clamped her muzzle shut when Starlight hushed her. Button's mom had entered his room. He still played on, but she talked with him, saying things that neither the unicorn or alicorn could hear. The mother then giggled cutely and left again.

Starlight snarled. "That whore, teaching that colt to view mares as objects! Oh, when I get my hooves on her..."

"It wouldn't be wise to threaten someone in front of me, Starlight," Twilight whispered. "Ever since you knocked Featherweight across half of Equestria, I'd take your threats seriously."

Starlight lowered the binoculars. "Oh? Whatcha ya gonna do? Arrest me?"

"I'm princess, so yes, I can arrest you," Twilight stated matter-of-factly.

"Well, you shouldn't. I'm trying to help this poor boy. His mother lets him have these video games and he'll grow up to be a sexist bigot that believes mares are hopeless without a stallion. I just can't let that happen."

"Spike plays video games too. I doubt he'll grow up into one of those," Twilight said.

Starlight pressed a hoof into Twilight's chest. "Oh he will! As long as this patriarchal society makes female characters into weak sluts, there will be sexist pigs. He's already going down that path too. Spike loves Rarity, but only because Rarity is the sexiest mare in town! That unicorn is racist and a whore, but yet Spike falls for her anyway. He just cares about her mane and all. I bet if another mare had that mane style, he drool over her too!"

"Hey! He's not that shallow. But...yeah, you're not completely wrong there. Guess I'll go talk with him."

"Ahah! So you see now. That's why I'm gonna save this colt."

"And how are you going to achieve that?"

Starlight froze. The only thing that moved were her eyelids, moving up and down in absent blinking. It was easy to tell that she was perplexed by this question and could not come up with any valid answer. 

"That's....That's a good question," she muttered finally.

"What? Are you afraid of her or something?" Twilight mockingly gestured at the small house.

"Of course I am! She's....she's a wicked one, that mare. You haven't seen her stare. It's frightening."

"Heh, I thought you were little 'Miss Visionary.' I doubt the great progressive thinkers backed down cause of one mother's little glare. You can take her," Twilight said with a one-sided smile.

"Do you really mean that or are you being sarcastic?" Starlight asked sincerely.

"I don't believe in sarcasm," Twilight said sarcastically.

"Oh! Well then, I'm glad you believe in me. I need to confront her. Not only for her terrible parenting skills, but she made me purchase an item by force! She used my money! The jerk! I'll teach her to mess with this equalist!"

Starlight charged out from the bush and at the house. Twilight then watched the events unfold. There was yelling, screaming and a quick conclusion. Starlight galloped to the house and flew away from it. Well, she flew away at about 120 mph and straight into a tree. The distance almost broke the record for farthest buck in Ponyville. Fortunately, Maud still held the record by 36 and half feet.

Tiny video game controllers circled around Starlight's head for the rest of the day. But everything was okay as Sugar Belle visited her in the hospital with her Ponystation 4. After a long lecture to her equal pony, Starlight grew tired and simply gave up. Sugar Belle put in Dead or Alive, and they played it until visitor hours were over.


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