I’ve got a kid in my Scout Troop who’s a ‘Brony’. One of the best kids I’ve got. Super smart, hates school and socializing with other people, but he’s always got a smile on his face.
We got a laptop for him, replete with the latest MS and Cisco developer tools, plus training on HTML, CSS, Ruby, Python, C-Sharp, etc.
The idea is to see if we can get him to GED out into a tech job locally and bypass the High School Horse sh!t.
Kid’s father is an Army Ranger, so that’s out. Two parent home. Mom’s got severe ADHD and other sensory issues related to autism.
Kid’s in the honor society too.
Dad races motorcycles, is in the NRA, staunch conservative, and Christian.
Sometimes its nature.
Exactly. I think some artistic things appeal to boys, and that’s because they’re intelligent or otherwise exceptional —artistic and maybe musical.
Boys and men have historically been the world’s greatest composers and artists.
It’s our degraded culture and human nature that lets girls belittle boys and vice-versa.
No boy should be allowed to think: “I’m awesome at music and drama, or I like tech, therefore I must be gay.” And the culture will constantly try to drag him in that direction.
Try introducing him to Ada before C#, it’s a much better programming language to start out on because it was designed with software engineering in mind (and so it naturally teaches good design).
I’d bet serious money that kid in your troop will turn out fine. He’ll outgrow his brony addiction and will adjust to normal life. That’s what millions of real kids do.
But for adults to cultivate this brony behaviour in children is just asking, no BEGGING for trouble.
The New MLP is kinda interesting as it isn’t so saccrinely sickly sweet like most pandering kids shows...
And there are some decent male role models onthe show, it isn’t like past cartoons where the world depicted was akin to some sorta amazonia feminist dream.
There is Spike, Big Mac, and a bunch of other Positive male role models and one of the main cast admires a pony names “Starswirl the Bearded” who is a male pony wizerd in the vein of gandolf and dumbledore.
The show is about female ponies mainly but it doesn’t seem to denigrate the male ponies that live in the same universe either. The main cast ponies are also not children they are young adults as well.
I think it’s appeal is that it isn’t another kids show where they hopelessly pander to the idealized helpless sugary sweek kid thing that adults in children’s programming tend to pander to.
It is like how the new star wars movies failed to connect because they wanted to connect to young children by using a young kid, young kids WANT to be an older than themselves Luke Skywalker, not the petulent child that is Anakin Skywalker. Because seeing themselves as the older cooler brother is better than being a snot nosed brat the same age they are.
Kid’s father is an Army Ranger, so that’s out. Two parent home. Mom’s got severe ADHD and other sensory issues related to autism.
Kid’s in the honor society too.
Dad races motorcycles, is in the NRA, staunch conservative, and Christian.
Sometimes its nature.
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My daughter has a variety of autism and she thinks she is transsexual.
Even the LGBT-QRSTs say that they notice female to male trans seem to be autistic.
Thought disorder?