also lol fallout equestria

also lol fallout equestria

I suppose Fifth Doctor era was a bit a”Boy’s Own Adventure” as they call it (allegedly; haven’t seen it nor the genre it allegedly was meant to mimic, so I wouldn’t know), but for the better part of its history, it’s been approached as a “family show”, meaning, mostly aimed at kids and at the adults who watch with the kids. If anything, that should be “adults also watch Doctor Who”!

All the more so after the… resequel? It don’t wanna call it a reboot exactly, because it was technically a direct “whole buncha years later” sequel, but the series that they started up 2005, you know. That one. That one has ALWAYS been, and still is, going into its seventh (or considering the 2009 Specials, is that 7.5th?) season… very character-driven. Which is, if we’re going by stereotypes, a “girl show” thing – all that “relationshippy” stuff you know, surely guys aren’t into that! Yet of course, it’s still popular with guys… and kids. And families.

Thing is, they deliberately MAKE Doctor Who to appeal to a wide demographic (especially nowadays), so saying “girls watch it too!” isn’t terribly impressive. Who the hell do you think all these handsome young men (Rory Williams, Jack Harkness, all three of the most recent Doctors, etc.) are introduced to ATTRACT?

Wrestling though… YES.

I don’t watch it, but having talked to guys that do, I am well aware that it is little more than, as my BF put it, “soap opera for guys”. Violent, sex-riddled, aggression-riddled… soap operas.

Of course, they’re violent, aggression-riddled soap operas with buff men in small pants and often no shirts. Plus lots of oddly homoerotic subtext. So in hindsight, having attracted a female fandom as well is not as surprising…

Right?

I’m a bit conflicted about them, though, because both eps have some really great cartoon gags.

Granted I’d buy the hell out of more molded hair ponies.

But forgive me when I say that I can not really emphasize with your sister, based on what you write. Getting worked up over rude comments on the internet (not exactly a rare occurence, especially on vids on currently popular topics, and controversial subjects even as childlish as “X character hate”) is not exactly something one should act surprised about, especially on sites like 4chan, Youtube and DA which are outright famous for this.

I have difficulty finding sympathy for people who take stuff like some troll going to another site to rant about them seriously. It sounds to me like your sister is just as guilty of getting too involved in petty fights.

Again, I apologize, but that’s the honest vibe I get from your writing.

Another thing why I say this is your accusations of mysoginism in “brony pride” comments. It seemed like to start out as a sound complaint about your sister’s commenters, then it got into this speculation about the suspected motives of those commenters. I have difficulty seeing how much of that is the actual comments and how much is your own thinking. It appears – and again, sorry if I’m wrong – that you have a problem with people spamming the memetic “I am male and I like this” comment – annoying, yes (like all fads), but anti-feminist?

Let’s make this clear: MLP is a girls’ show. It acknowledges itself as such. It has sleepovers, characters being fashion geeks, a fairy kingdom ruled by a princess, and ponies. But it does not seem to think that this is a bad thing, and the brony movement does not think that it is either. In fact, the brony community that I know was exactly about that, making a statement that men enjoying an obviously female activity does not in any way make them inferior.

Now, if you think that the very fact that such a statement is neccessary is offensive, then you are not angry at the one smaking the statement but the rest of society. And apparenty the show itself as well, since it embraces the notion of feminine preferences existing.

Of course men lose “masculinity” points for acting aganst the expected role, but I do not see how the fear of that means that either role is preferable to the other! The fans humorously included these things, like enjoying dress ups or cute animals, into the values that ‘real men” will stand up for. If anything it seems like a step in the right direction, so I really don’t get how it could turn into someone seeing it as the opposite.