John Bailey and Brenna Harvey, graduate students at Rutgers University in New Jersey, are showing a group – an even mix of men and women, mostly in their 30s, mostly graduate students studying gender – the fruits of their research into bronies: men who like My Little Pony. They have been studying a particularly extreme subset of bronies, they explain. Men who fetishise the ponies. The pair bring up a screengrab. One brony has posted a picture of a My Little Pony wearing sunglasses and drinking lemonade by a pool. In the comments beneath, the poster has made the fatal mistake, at least within this community, of admitting that he lost his “wizard eligibility 26 years ago” – has had sex with a person – and that he does not “clop” – that is, masturbate – to the images. Another brony had responded immediately: “Go be normal somewhere else, faggot.”
This portrait of the delicate female bears a striking resemblance to that 50′s ideal my mother and other women of her generation fought so hard to leave behind. They didn’t like her passivity, her wide-eyed innocence. They didn’t like the fact that she was perpetually offended by sexual innuendo. They didn’t like her excessive need for protection. She represented personal, social and intellectual possibilities collapsed, and they worked and marched, shouted and wrote to make her irrelevant for their daughters. But here she is again, with her pure intentions and her wide eyes. Only this time it is the feminists themselves who are breathing new life into her.
Is this dysfunction really pervasive in society? Or is it only progressives and SJW’s who are this effed up?
The Horror!… Oh, the Humanity!….
One prays they never reproduce.
Just add them to the various classes to go-to-the-wall when the Great Revolution comes. “Faster. please…”
I think this is mostly a leftist phenomenon. Conservatives, I think, try to keep their
perversions fetishes kinks paraphilias“atypical erotic interests” on the down-low.On the issue of the “bronies,” they seem harmless enough for the most part. From what I’ve seen, the show is primarily geared towards girls (obviously), but the show’s creator said that she conceived of the show as something that boys and dads/uncles who have to keep an eye on their sisters/daughters/nieces could get some enjoyment out of the episodes. Hence, there is significantly more action and quick, “over the head” jokes than you would expect for a “girl’s show.” I don’t make a habit of watching it, but I don’t think you would be worse for wear if you had to watch and episode or two, and I would rather my hypothetical daughter watch this show rather than many other things on the internet today.
Periphery demographics (a demographic that latches on to a show despite not being the target audience) are nothing new, but the MLP fan base takes the cake for being the most visible and loudest around.
The sexualization of the characters is not surprising. There is erotic art of characters from pretty much every show, book, and movie in the world, and it’s an iron-clad law of the universe that, if it exists, there is explicit material pertaining to it on the internet. “Clopping” obviously riles passions because of the fact that it skirts around/crosses right into bestiality.
The my little pony show is like crack for the autistic. While looking for the article explaining why the show is like crack for the autistic I came across a gay white nationalist brony. http://www.counter-currents.com/2014/01/my-nationalist-pony-an-interview-with-buttercup-dew/
Sheesh, at least I came by my Hello Kitty fixation honestly — by actually living in Japan for three years as a kid — and not as a camp affectation.