"Hello? I was appealing to adults and kids when Eisenhower was still President!"
Posted on 04/23/2015 3:35:00 PM PDT by CtBigPat
Bronies can be summed up in one sentence: they’re grown-ass men who love a little girl’s cartoon show about the adventures of a group of magical ponies.
It’s Easter weekend, and I’m in an airport hotel in San Francisco attending the second annual Bay Area Brony Spectacular Convention, aka BABSCON. I have absolutely no idea what to expect. I just really want to see this scene for myself. I gotta know: What the hell have Bronies found in My Little Pony that the rest of us dudes missed?
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You have uncommon intellect and patience.
That’s what came to mind on my part. The Furries. I count these things as a sign of the times.
This is not an article about the show or about the little girls who enjoy it.
The article is about grown men who wear makeup, wigs and My Little Pony accessories.
Read the article.
Wow. Way to ignore everything.
The critisism is not of the show (for the most part). It is of the oddity of men so passionate about the show. They are not the target audience and their behavior is abnormal.
Don’t be so sensitive please. My kids watch some things that I can’t stand but am ok with the wholesome programming for them. Of course they are the target audience.
I should know. I am one.
They've been doing that since season 2. And the comics do it even more.
You are obviously unfamiliar with either.
There’s actually nothing new about the “designed for kids AND adults” trend in animated shows.
Kim Possible and Phineas & Ferb on Disney are two great examples. I have my daughter to thank for getting to watch those. The Kim Possible episode where her arch-nemesis hires a management consultant to overhaul his operation is a classic on the same level as Office Space.
My son is really into Teen Titans Go. Which isn’t on a level anywhere near those two, but still contains all sorts of humor and cultural references that appeal to parents.
If they're really that desperate for attention, couldn't they find some way of being different that doesn't give off pedophilia vibes? For instance, I think that walking around town in Victorian attire (top hat, cane, cloak, muttonchops) would give them the attention they want and the satisfaction of being "different", while not setting off the same alarms that dressing up in pastel-colored pony costumes inevitably do.
Some cartoon writers throw the occasional ‘adult’ reference in there to ‘throw a bone’ (as it were) to those adults that they know are watching their show. They watch because the kids ask them to.
One show that I know throws in the adult references regularly is ‘VeggieTales’. On an episode from a couple years ago, they did a show that was sci-fi themed. In the course of the show, they threw in references to at least 7 sci-fi series or movies that only adults would get.
As for the bronies....well....it’s one thing to watch MLP with your kids or grandkids-nothing wrong with that at all. For a ‘grown’ man to deliberately watch it...that’s something that gives me the creeps.
Quite right. I pointed out I hadn’t a clue as to whether the writers had done that or not. Having been reliably informed by fellow FReepers that they have, I am willing to cut the “Bronies” a little slack on their weirdness.
Thank you for your fair-mindedness, which unfortunately can't be said of most FReepers on this subject.
The comic books are even more oriented to the adult fans and are quite clever . . . so far still without resorting to any inappropriate "adult" themes. The one about Rarity and the hippies is particularly good.
"Hello? I was appealing to adults and kids when Eisenhower was still President!"
I can’t believe anyone would post an article from a porn rag to FR
Surely you all know that no FReepers are engaging in cross-dressing or pedophilia (G-d forbid!). Unless you are very, very stupid you understand that we are simply FReepers who love the series. Yet you persist in childishly branding every single adult fan of the show as a perverted (and left wing) fruitcake. You must know that these accusations against us, fellow FReepers whom you have known and interacted with for years (I've been a brony for four years but a FReeper for almost sixteen) are all false. They are intended for one purpose and one purpose only: to ridicule and to wound.
What we have ever done to cause you to distrust us I don't know. What I do know is that you are hypocrites. You complain about the cheapening of the culture, yet you make threads celebrating vulgar TV shows like "Breaking Bad" and "Justified" (full confession: I watched this season of "Justified" as well) and fulminate about how stellar and clever these profanity-laced shows are.
"Friendship is Magic" contains no vulgar language, no political message, no subversion of traditional family life (in fact, it actually celebrates rural, small town, and agricultural life, containing perhaps the only positive "redneck" character on all of television right now), and no promotion of any of the sick activity you people are accusing it of promoting. Yes, there are weirdos in this fandom as in any other, but they are far from the majority. I am quite certain that the cast, crew, and most of the fandom are raging liberals for the simple reason that everyone seems to be so in these times. Yet the producers and actors have chosen not to use the show to shove their own personal agendas down anyone's throats. Doubtless some of you are afficianados of Manga or Anime, most of which is far, far worse if not downright pornographic.
You people are projecting "diaper man" and "pajama boy" onto an entire fandom, which includes several of us, your fellow FReepers. It is you, not we, who are being childish and immature here. Shoot, even the forum at Jewish Task Force (a militant Kahanist web community) has bronies! They don't feel the need to panic and scream to prove their masculinity. If some of you do . . . well, I guess you know yourselves better than we do.
Crazieman was going to start a brony ping list for those of us who love the show to discuss it. Thanks to you, that plan is now apparently dead. Even if it had been implemented you would have apparently felt so threatened that you would not have left us in peace. Meanwhile, your threads celebrating over vulgar shows are never interfered with, nor would anyone who attempted to do so go undisciplined. But you all feel you have a special entitlement not only to dislike this show without watching a single episode, but to prevent its fans here from even discussing the show in peace. And this makes you what . . . "conservative?" "American?" "Religious?" I'm a genuine religious fanatic, but I have no trouble enjoying a fantasy show just as you probably enjoy Tolkien or Lewis or sci-fi. No one accuses Tolkien of being "subversive" or "anti-religion" (despite the fact that his whole purpose was to create a pagan mythology for England complete with numerous "gxds"). FReepers praise "The Chronicles of Narnia" despite the fact the stories are full of pagan Greco-Roman "gxds." Why in the name of all that is reasonable is FIM somehow subversive or religion or America or good morals in a way these others are not?
Thank you, fellow FReepers, for showing just what childish little brats you all are in denying to FReeper bronies the simple request of a ping list to discuss among ourselves an excellent and perfectly harmless children's cartoon that is good enough to be enjoyed by all ages. I hope you're all proud of yourselves.
Unfortunately, as I pointed out in a previous thread, you are simply being @$$holes. This observation was true then and it is true now.
Awesome, just awesome.
“Neigh-sayers”...I saw what you did there. Clever.
I said what I did because the idea of ‘bronies’ just feels..’off’ to me. This is a free country (more or less), so you darn sure don’t need my permission...or anyone elses..to watch what you wish. If I offended, I apologize.
The problem is that these cartoon characters are infantile, and thus obviously a total screaming contradiction with adult maturity.
In fact, given that young children are non-individuated by definition, I would say that the real target of this Leftist-produced show is the patent-child relationship. There is a time for everything, and developing personal independence is not appropriate for a young child. Their safety and learning friend on their tight bond of trust and reliance with their parents.
So while this show speaks to the adult’s mind, it is not appropriate for the child’s mind. In fact, it creates possible damaging cognitive dissonance for the child by literally using independent adult freedom concepts against the wrong population as a psychological weapon. Thus, its created by Leftists.
What’s bizarre is that adults would want adult concepts of personal independence packaged with diapers and a Binky. Though they might think they are merely amused and immune from negative effects, they to ate being exposed to the intense cognitive dissonance from the other direction.
It’s like having cops dress like fairy princesses and then teaching them situational dominance techniques - the method undermines the message and sabotages the practice in real life.
No, sorry. I think the show is harmful to both kids and adults. It’s insidious, in fact - poisoning the conservative message by wrapping it in infantilism.
Its just to sophisticated a weapon for most people to even recognize asa weapon - and that’s precisely why it’s so dangerous. It undermines children’s stability and weakens the very adulthood of adults, all while convincing both parties they are enjoying themselves.
It’s honeyed poison - psychic sabotage.
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” - 1 Corinthians 13:11
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