snowfi6916 said:
Do you guys think that since so many older men are into the show that Fox news will catch wind and do what they do best? Aka ruin the series for everyone? Discuss.
I'm not doing a very good job of treading lightly, I'm sure, but please understand that the following is simply my immediate reaction to reading the OP, and that if you take offense, it isn't intended.
I'm willing to bet that you don't despise Fox News any more than I do. I watch it for three reasons: a good laugh (not to cry), to check in on what's going on at the opposite end of the spectrum, and because if I'm going to continue talking shit about somebody I'm going to make sure I actually know what I'm talking about. With that in mind, why do so many on here act as if Fox is persecuting them? Fox spends a fair amount of time scapegoating video games, to be sure, but not nearly as much time as they spend cranking up the outrage machine over gay marriage, foreign countries, liberal politicians, unwed mothers and every person Obama shakes hands with. It would appear the great majority of us agree that they're a bunch of stuffy gasbags and opportunistic ideologues, and as such, they're going to have all of the same stereotypical targets as any fringe conservative outlet. But it bothers me to hear someone say that Fox news will "ruin" a show that you love. If Fox, the 700 Club and Focus on the Family can't take down Family Guy, I'm pretty sure a stray segment here and there when they're momentarily tired of picking on gay people isn't going to get the show cancelled, or boycotted, or altered in any way. So why the melodrama? Why "Fox is going to ruin the show for everyone?" Does this not sound immature and whiny and completely unrealistic when you read it? Again, I'm not saying this to insult you - I genuinely want to know? And from your wording, it would seem that bronies aren't even yet on Fox News' radar.
But, and I want all of you bronies out there to pay attention: if Fox News spends any substantial amount of time freaking out over this phenomenon, especially if they try to insinuate a link between pedophilia and bronies, I want you to notify me,
with links,. I will then change my avatar to a Pony for the rest of the year. And y'all will have to show me how to use GIF instead of JPEG so I can get a really flamboyant, hyperactive, girly pony in protest of those male-centric, homophobic, sexist, racist, xenophobic douchenozzles. 'Cos really, fuck Fox.
Can you say "Fuck Fox" on the Escapist?