Our Little Pony

[Hagi]

I get what you're saying and I fully empathise, but only partly agree.

I think you're looking at the wrong solution.

Nothing's going to change if we all start taking the bad stuff without complaint. There should be complaints, like this comic, about the way some women are treated. Not because they're women but because they're people. Likewise, there should be complaints about the way you and other men are treated, because we're also people.

If you are judged on your appearance then that's simply wrong and you are completely in your right to complain about it. And decent non-hypocritical people will support you in it. Because whether it's biker men or cos-playing girls it's not right to be judged on your appearance or gender.

We should welcome women to our community. We should also welcome men to our community. We should stand up when women in our community, or even outside of it, are treated badly. We should also stand up when men in our community, or even outside of it, are treated badly.

 

[Rack]

You kinda messed up the quote, there. I never said that.

Apologies, the new forum system is a bit of a mess and I slipped up. I've changed it now.

 

[silverleaf81]

LOL, "that ass is magic" XD God, i'm gonna be laughing at that for ages.

 

[Risingblade]

This is a bad thing? Seems pretty awesome to me...

It's satirizing how women are being treated by male nerds for "not being real geeks" or "being attention seeking" when they turn up at conventions, do cosplay, or comment on nerd culture.

This seems quite obvious but this seems to have flown over the heads of 90% of the commenters here who, much like yourself, think that it would be awesome to be sexually harrassed and dismissed due to your gender.

No those 90% really don't give a shit about what it's suppose to mean. Stop being so serious on the internet please you'll bore us all to tears :3

 

[Agayek]

I'm confused, can someone just give me the rundown on this? I heard MLP conventions were actually almost entirely male.

All it's doing is presenting a situation that's depressingly not unusual for women at geek conventions and swapping the genders. The only reason MLP is being used is because it's a convenient, popular girl-focused thing that has conventions.

That kind of behavior really isn't all that unusual for a group of men being approached by a woman at a 'con. It's not the majority or anything, but it's also not classifiable as "isolated incidents".

 

[Mr Binary]

I was a tad confused after I read the comic and the small article below it. I haven't really noticed this stuff happening... though, they could just be making an ironic statement of sorts.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

I don't know a single guy that would want a girl to come on to them in that manner...

You've heard from at least 5 in this thread alone.

I doubt any of them were serious. and if they were, well, that's still only 5 on a website known for attracting a clientèle with low self-esteem and standards, out of hundreds of people I can say I know well enough to know they wouldn't like that.

 

[webkilla]

To all the guys going "Oh I want women coming on to me/being the sexual aggressors"

I once dated a woman from portugal.

Maybe it was just her, or maybe its latin girls in general - but this woman thoroughly changed my view on statements like that.

I am well aware that this is admitting that I'm uncomfortable with women 'being on top' so to say, but this was just too much.

she would grab my ass - no matter where we went - and make lewd remarks at me, again everywhere, even in public. At first it was a little endearing, but ultimately it was too much.

A lot of guys might fantasize about having a girl showing up on your doorstep wanting to fuck - but I swear it was kinda scary when she did so drunk, completely unannounced, while you're working on homework for a college class - and she doesn't want to leave and starts shouting because you're not giving her your undivided attention. She did this often.

if she'd ever actually hit me I could probably say that I'd been in a genuinely abusive relationship.

trust me guys: its not fun either way.

also, this doesn't mean that I only want girls as the passive partners. I prefer equals, but this was just too much.

So guys who want girls making catcalls at your and sexually harassing you - you don't know what you're talking about. You do not want that

 

[WolfCross]

Guys, some people here missed the point. This comic is reversing the roles of what usually happens at geek conventions.

If some male readers here think that this kind of sexual harassement is "awesome", try to imagine it happening constantly, and possibly from women that are stronger than you and don't even look attractive. You'd soon feel emasculated.

I think the point of the comic was less about the sexual harassment and more about Twilight Sparkle..um...lady's last statement, i'm sure a lot of bronies would be suitably horrified if they were crucified as 'dirty perving bastards trying to worm their way into a girls' pants by pretending to like a girl's show' at an MLP convention, which is obviously a play on the much parroted assertion that a lot of girls at conventions are in fact whores who found some glasses lying around outside and stole a batman t-shirt from somewhere.

Though tbh i think it's going to back-fire given how spectacularly some people have missed the satire...

 

[Notsomuch]

Females costume in skimpy and provocative clothing largely because many characters and their state of dress are largely a product of a media centered around the perceived wants and desires of males aged 16-32. It includes not all, but a majority and certainly a vast majority of mainstream female character favorites which would fall under the radar of casual fans looking for someone to dress up as, while not necessarily knowing everything about the subject matter. The condemnation of 'poser' women is misdirected and should be aimed at the culture which puts characters in that state of dress and thrusts them into the limelight. However, many of the self proclaimed nerds who criticize these women are also the ones most likely to wish to preserve the current Video-Gaming culture that allows for such an environment and hold an exclusionist view towards women, concerning their own communities.