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ABOVE THE INTERNET THE MISOGYNY OF "BRONY" anuary 15, 2014 Brony (n): A name typically given to the male viewers/fans of the My Little Pony show or anchise. They typically do not give in to the hype that males aren't allowed to enjoy things that may be intended for females. - Urban Dictionary I'm p----- off about the word "Brony". Specifically the existence of the word. There are many reasons to dislike those that self-apply the name, not least because they have fetishised and pornified a children's cartoon to the point that I have to supervise my daughter searching for desktop wallpaper, but I'm cross that the word itself exists A portmanteau of "bro" and "pony" (and, oh, do I hate bro-culture), its very existence says that these people need to set themselves apart from the target demographic viewers of My Little Pony. That target demographic is, of course, girls. This need to self-apply a special label, for fear they may be associated with anything female focused, is an example of how society deems women and girls as second class "I can'tjust like My Little Pony, that's what girls do. Oh no, Ima bronu, I'm a whole different thing. I appreciate it for it's animation and character driven storu lines." As opposed to girls who, presumably, like it for the shiny colours and sparkles? F---. Of You're terrified that liking something that primarily targets girls makes you "girly", which patriarchy has deemed man's greatest embarrassment. So you invent a meaningless term to avoid that stigma. My Little Pony *is* a good show. The characters *are great. The story lines are warm and funny and full of decent lessons for our children. It's a great show for girls, because it doesn't talk down to them, and teaches them that excitement and adventure are not the sole domain of male characters. It's a great show for boys too, *for exactly the same reasons If you want to enjoy My Little Pony, do it. But inventing a label just makes you look like a misogynistic prick. And definitely stop with the p---. categories/feminism, parenting tags mlp, fim, feminism, brony

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1. What the hell are people searching that they turn up porn every time? I often search for reaction images on google images or particular frames and I've yet to return any porn (at least on the 1st page results) and places like say Derpibooru have a very strict filter.

2. "Fear they may be associated with anything female focussed", now that is just dead wrong, that ship sailed when we started calling ourselves that. We are associated with literally nothing else but a thing that is female focussed.

3. The target demographic also appreciates the animation and story, even if they can't put it into words. That said plenty of the bronies just liked it and all the things about animation and whatnot were post-hoc justification.

4. Yes. We are terrified, many fear the patriarchal label of girly, but trust me the label doesn't do anything for that, it's just a name that stuck, there were some other candidates back in the day.

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