Well, not more than just general reality...
Could we please just put this ridiculously insecure masculinity thing to bed? Please?
Could we please just put this ridiculously insecure masculinity thing to bed? Please?
That's the thing, though; for every brony who tries to deny that the show is girly, there's a good dozen or so others who have learned (or at least first recognized on a conscious level) that girliness isn't bad precisely because of their experiences in watching the show. Which shouldn't be any kind of social achievement in 2013, but considering that I, a male, have had to explain to more than one female that girliness is irrelevant as long as the work itself is good, it remains one nevertheless. And if you want to effect social change, the first step is to get your ideas out there and get people accustomed to them; once people stop perceiving widespread appreciation for female-oriented media as being abnormal or a big deal, they will cease to treat it as such, at which point you've won. This isn't to say that the MLP fandom is deliberately pursuing this goal (nor should they, really, since that would be pretentiously dressing up a simple interest as some sort of brave social crusade when the ideal result is to get people to accept it as an interest as normal as any other), but I'd still treat it as a valuable "first step" of sorts.Yal said:I think it probably does, but not in any useful way. Bronies don't have the social clout or self-awareness to really channel that anywhere. And plenty will still try and argue that the show isn't actually girly, which could not be more ridiculous, rather than just accept that girly is not a bad thing.
Is it wrong that I say yes?omega 616 said:Now can you imagine the Fonz or a lumberjack watching MLP?