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This article focuses on claims made by little kids in this video.

    It's called: "THE THAW"

    You don’t have to watch the video to understand what I’m talking about, mind you.  I recommend you do, it is kind of funny...  but you don't gotta ‘cause I quote directly each thing I’m responding to, so don't worry about wasting your time.  If you do watch it, make sure to dislike it to do your part in representing the Internet’s disdain for everything they are trying to do.  …Unless you actually like the video, in which case: 

   

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    So.  It looks as though this is a video made by kids sick and tired of the way that they see Christianity is being treated nowadays.  Let's see some of the things you kids got to say:

"Christianity is being completely frozen out of America."

     Haha, Oh dear.  I sense some impending members of the biggest majorities in America with grossly larger amounts of influence and power than everyone else pretending that they are a persecuted minority.

"Why Can’t I Pray In School?"

You can.  I mean… the school can’t sponsor prayer, though.

"Why do I have to check my religion at the door?"
You don't.

“Why can’t I write about God in my school papers?”

Huh?  When was this ever a thing?  These guys need to learn about specifics here. 

“Why do I have to tolerate people cursing my God, but I’m not allowed to talk about by God, and my faith?”

Yeah, this is too vague.  If it’s referring to tolerating kids saying using their lord’s name in vain, it’s because that’s how people talk and they don’t follow your religion so you have to.  If you’re talking about teachers then maybe we should define what ‘cursing your god’ is.  Just not sure how to respond to this onacounna I don't know what you're talking about.

“Why are they taking God out of my history books?”
     He was never there to begin with...  The Christian God is not a historically documented figure.  Not nearly enough historically documented proof.  If there was, you wouldn’t need to have faith in him.  Plus there's that whole Separation of Church and state thin-

“Why do they teach every other theory in science, except for creation?”

     Oh fuck.  They’re these kind of kids.

Well.  It’s because creationism/intelligent design IS NOT A SCIENTIFIC THEORY AND THERE IS A VERY SPECIFIC DEFINITION OF WHAT A SCIENTIFIC THEORY IS AND CREATIONISM HAS NOT EVEN COME CLOSE TO RESEMBLING IT.

Ahem.  Oh my.  That was inappropriate.  I’m sorry I yelled at you.  You’re just kids and all.  You’ve still got time to learn about the world…

Why do I get called names because I believe in marriage the way god designed it?

Well...  It depends on what names you are called, I suppose.  If you’re being called an ignorant child promoting the idea that a just society should unnecessarily oppress the rights of minorities because of other’s religious faith, that would be understandable.  Or maybe if they called you-

"Some even call us hateful, hypocrites, unloving, close-minded, BIGOTS (Point at the screen)"

Oh.  Well.  There you go. 

"bigot  (ˈbɪɡət) http://dictionary.reference.com/help/luna/IPA_pron_key.html
— n
	a person who is intolerant of any ideas other than his or her own, esp on religion, politics, or race"

     -(Dictionary.com)

     You are bigots because you fit the definition.  No matter how young.  Close-minded is kind of a no-brainer, so you should be able to figure that one out.

You are hateful because you promote hate towards an unnecessarily persecuted minority group that has no reason to be recognized as deserving of less rights than anyone else, save for religious reasons that ignore the first amendment of our constitution. Until there are a shit ton of Christian kids killing themselves because of bullying from marriage equality kids, you kindly turn the other cheek and shut your fucking face.

     You are hypocrites because your evidence for the god you believe in is in a Biblical passage.  That in itself isn’t hypocritical, but treating the Bible as God’s word, damning those who don’t follow it while not following it yourself is.  Nobody really follows the Bible to the T, people still work on the Sabbath, people eat shellfish and shit, and because our society has become cool with those things it’s as though you are aware of a Biblical endnote none of us know of that says: “*All of this stuff is the word of an omnipotent, infallible God, until it’s not cool with the society you’re living in anymore.” 

     You don’t get to decide what is God’s word and what isn’t, if it’s the Bible then it’s the Bible.  If you shit on people for not following it when you don’t, then you are a hypocrite.

     And not ONE of you in the video was wearing a shirt not made of mixed fibers.  I know.  I’ve got an eye for these things. 

Unloving is the only one that’s a little problematic.  If it’s just referring to being unloving of your fellow man and not saying that hateful people are unable to love, then I’d agree.  There have been plenty of passionate, loving people who just so happened to hate people for terrible reasons.

“Why can’t Tim Tebow praise God after making a touchdown without causing a national uproar?”

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.  Whoa.  Some people poking fun of the piety of a guy who plays a sport isn’t a fucking national uproar.  You know what was a national uproar in response to events in the world of sports?  INTEGRATING BLACK PEOPLE.  Let’s save words like that for things that they actually describe, yes?

 
     My deal is if what he’s doing is thanking God as an intervening source of the good things that happen to him, then that’s fucked up and stupid.  God is going to come down and make sure Tim Tebow wins some game and he’s just going to let the 16,000 children starving to death every day go without a loaf of bread and a fish?

But I’m not going to fucking talk about Tim Tebow.  Who gives a shit?  If the point is trying to make it seem as though sports are being aggressively anti-piety by saying that people poke fun of the guy who is just the most fucking ridiculous and over-the-top with it, it’s a lame point.  People make fun of everything that is distinguishable about anything. 

But fucking seriously.  99% of what happens in sports are fucking inconsequential compared to fucking everything.  Let’s stop treating it like it’s the biggest deal in the world just because it’s more exciting than the things that matter way more.

“The football coach at Ridgeland High school in Georgia was investigated by the school board…”

Fuck.  More football.  Alright.  Go on.

“Did he abuse a student?”

That would warrant an investigation, probably a police investigation, though.

“Is he a terrorist?”

…What?  …What in the fuck do you guys think the school board is?  After the Boston Bombing do you think the School Board all put on their suits and hurried to the scene to start an investigation?

“He allowed local churches to feed his football team.”

(Sarcastic gasp)

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Guys.  He works for a school and he was bringing students into a church.  This shit raises flags.  The Freedom From Religion foundation had concerns about that and that’s what sparked the investigation.  This is what foundations like FFR do, and when a concern is brought to the school board they investigate it.

You know… Gay, Lesbian, Queer and Transgendered kids are bullied to the point that they kill themselves.  THIS is a very common occurrence. The government doesn’t allow them the equal rights of heterosexuals, and they are treated by their communities as less than human.  There are some that are killed and raped just for being who they are.
     Is this the best you got to prove how shit you guys have it?  Something questionable happened, someone complained and the school board did their job?  I mean, I feel like I should probably detail why the separation of church and state exists, but I feel like I’ll definitely get a chance later… 

In public school, I’m called lesbian (or gay) for not kissing (because) I want to save myself for marriage.

Well, that’s definitely not cool.  People assigning labels to you without knowing you when you’re in a chapter in your life underlined by self-discovery and picking on you is mean. 

But again, this pales in comparison to a closeted kid being called gay for their behavior and being outed, or an out kid being ridiculed for being gay.  You taking greater offense at it than someone else because you think that being gay is a bad thing is PART OF THE PROBLEM.  Until there are a shit ton of Christian kids killing themselves because of bullying from marriage equality kids, you shut your fucking face until your start to show some respect for the dead and how lucky you are to be so privileged that these are your problems. 

Also, what you’re talking about is goddamn uncommon.  I mean, I don’t know how old you are, but seriously nobody’s first kiss is after “I now pronounce you man and wife”.  Not even Abstinence Only education said you can’t kiss a chick ‘fore you slip a ring on her…

“In public school, dating is an obligation.”

That’s just not true.  Plenty of us who went dateless through public school are evidence of that.  I mean, those of us who weren’t just background to most people and did receive shit from people didn’t because we did not have a significant other.  At least I’ve never heard of a single case of that.  I ain’t got no statistics to back that up, but they're the one's being anecdotal and they’ve got the burden of proof, so I don’t know what else to say.

"In public schools, people are rude and disrespectful towards CHRISTIANS!"

   People are rude and disrespectful towards everyone.  Just because you're Christians doesn't mean you deserve special treatment above everyone else and have no one ever be rude or disrespectful towards you.

"What we see in our health classes

                           'Sex Education'

Fourth grade and up-

                         "Is PORNOGRAPHY"

     

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     Holy shit.  We are in really fucked up territory here.  You guys don’t get to just say shit like that and walk away.  Name one case where any teacher, as a part of the curriculum, showed children material meant specifically to sexually arouse them and not educate them.  I don’t care if you’re kids, you should know by now to not LIE.  

“Dirty jokes fill the hallways between classes.”
    Hey.  What did Professor McGonagall get Harry Potter on his birthday?  

    She wrapped his head with saran wrap and shit watery diarrhea on his face. 

      

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      Not really even a joke.  But it’s disgusting and unpredictable and fun.  This is what some of us did during high school.  School sucks, growing up sucks.  So we entertain each other, bond and forge friendships through an incredibly stressful point in our formative years with various methods.  If you don’t like my methods, don’t hang out with me. 
     Dirty jokes have been around since before fucking Canterbury Tales, you ain't pining for the good ole' days when you say you want them gone.  You're pining for the days the sun has never shone on, and never will.

“Despite modern popular belief, America was founded as a Christian nation.”

Motherfucking Christ…

I’m getting sick of this.
     No!

It wasn’t!

A Christian Nation would be a theocracy.  We are not that!  The first amendment of the constitution prevents our government from being anything but secular, as in not respecting an establishment of religion.  Not any sort of religious.

And some of the most influential founding fathers weren’t just NOT Christian, they were very aggressively ANTI-organized religion in general.

THOMAS JEFFERSON:

Edited the New Testament to remove references to the supernatural, miracles, and indications of Jesus’s divinity.  Why?  Because he didn’t believe it, while he dug Jesus’s philosophy.  Talk about disrespect for the words of God.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN:

    "I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies."

    "The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason."

    "Revealed religion has no weight with me."

    These guys wanted freedom and equality for their kind too.


    To all the founding fathers though, their kind was only white, male, land owners, yeah...  Sure...  Most of them owned slaves....   Maybe our foundation ain't that solid and we should stop romanticizing it.

   "In 1962 the supreme court decided that prayer was unconstitutional in schools."

Yes.  School-sponsored, mandatory prayer.  School is a government institution and the separation of church of state exists, and should.

    "In 1963, courts rule the BIBLE unconstitutional.  Saying that if the Ten Commandments read in school, kids might be inclined to follow them!"

    Yeah, the first amendment of our country DIRECTLY CONTRADICTS the First Commandment.  God says, “Have no god’s before me” Constitution says, “Have whatever/how many gods you believe, and no one can do anything about that.”

"REALLY?"

    Yes, really.  A government institution telling kids that you can only believe in the Judeo-Christian god is awful.  There are other people in our country, kids.  Fucking deal with it.  Just because you ARE the majority doesn’t mean you get to treat everyone else like shit, and just because our rules forbid you to, doesn’t mean you are being persecuted, it just means YOU can’t persecute US.

     Kids…  I want to go easy on you, because you’re only half-formed people who are just following lock-step what your parents tell you and a shit ton of you will see the real world the minute you get out of their reach, but I don’t think you would appreciate me going easy on you.  You all clearly want to change the world and make a difference. 

     So I’m taking what you said just like anyone else said it.  Show you the respect you deserve.

     It’s all wrong.  It's all wrong and it stinks of uneducated, privileged members of the majority who have no idea what it feels like to be persecuted, pretending that their right to persecute and make the world unfair is being unnecessarily restricted and that is akin to persecution in itself.

You simply do not deserve to act this way.  This isn’t a fucking game.  There are people seriously being discriminated against and being persecuted for victimless crimes and you pretending like you’re fucking kin to them, or like your problems are worse than theirs is fucking offensive.

     Imagine one day as a gay kid in an all-Christian school in the south.  Imagine one day as a transgendered kid anywhere.  When you’re so hung up on moral-absolutism and rules from fucking thousands of years ago it might be hard to see seriously people who are persecuted and abused by a society that includes kids like you.

    I don't like the word 'bullying'.  It really diminishes what's going on, and so many kids don't recognize what they're doing as bullying at all because it's so stereotyped.  It's abuse.  If kids are doing that to you, it's not okay.  But you still have no excuse for your abuse of others.

     So yeah, guess what.  We’re making the world fairer and you guys have less power to boss all of us around.  It sucks how you’re being treated if truly you have casted no stones, but when you are part of our society’s abuse of minorities, you, just like your abusers, revoke your right to sympathy.  The messed up kid who got beat up by his dad doesn’t get to use that as an excuse to beat his kids, and the bully who bullies because he got bullied is still a fucking bully.

     I can’t help but feel sorry for you.  Growing up is weird and it sucks and everyone’s hurting everyone to make it feel better.  It is some of the worst shit ever.  But I’m sorry.  If you are going out into the world to slut-shame my sister, single-out my queer brother and make everyone follow your beliefs just because you were born to a family who believes them, I don't care that you might think my fighting back is bullying, you're trying to change the world and you have to take opposition like grown ups. 

    You think you're frozen?  Alright.  We'll put you on fucking display just like all the other frozen cavemen.

     This is why we have freedom of and FROM religion.  You can believe whatever you want.  You are free from being forced Muslim, Jewish, and other religion’s practices and beliefs, and I am free from all of your horseshit, because unless you have secular/non religious backing to your concerns you’re bringing to the state, you are shit out of luck and for good reason.  Hopefully some of you will grow out of your myopic, self-serving stage of development, unlike your parents with their hands up your little asses making you talk and pose dramatically in front a black screen to scary music.





(Special Thanks to Jason Steele for the wonderful Psyducks.)

The Pony Problem (Pt. 2)

(Continued from: http://journalswilson.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-problem-with-ponies-pt1.html)

 

Part Two: Hush now, quiet now.

So you on the edge of your seat as to what happened that caused such a divided reaction? 

Alright, freaks…  Hold onto your brunch:

What happened was a large group of people not within the intended demographic for the show turned out to really like it. 

*Cough* 

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*Cricket*

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*Tumbleweed*

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Don’t bring in the dancing lobsters yet though, you haven’t heard the whole story!  These were MEN!  Grown MEN!  Un-ironically liking a show made for LITTLE GIRLS!

*Coughing cricket riding a tumbleweed*

Oh?  You don’t see why that is any sort of deal at all?  Alright.  Not much reason for you to keep on reading unless you’re interested in knowing more, which is cool, this does pique the interest of a lot of people, and rightly so.  However.  If you’re seething and enraged right now, but the froth seeping from between your clenched teeth hasn’t dripped down and broken your mouse so you can still use the scroll, please keep reading plz. 

What was birthed along with this unintended demographic and fandom, was a group of people who despise them, pick on them, call them pedophiles, gay or gay pedophiles, and come up with more pitiful attempts to justify their murderous rage in the face of logic than the bad guy at the end of Breaking Dawn pt. 2.

Pictured: The only actor in any Twilight movie who was having the time of their lives.

There are a lot of claims from these folk, made about this fandom (which has named itself the tongue-in-cheek title of “Bronies” (Bro + Ponies)).  I don’t know how to address these claims really, because they’re all just so out there and with not a single shred of logical basis.  Nearly every post on an Internet forum, or comment on YouTube, etc., that hints at the show or its fan base gets a response similar to the following:

     1. Some members of the unintended demographic are so OBSESSED with the program, that they have quit their jobs just so they can stay home and watch the show undoubtedly in puddles of their own urine.

     2. Members of the unintended demographic are all sexually attracted to the characters and/or horses, and make an excessive amount of drawn pornographic material for their disgustingly perverse masturbatory sessions. 

     3. Members of the unintended demographic want nothing more than to force everyone to watch and love their show, and irritate and nearly harass those who refuse to join them.

     
     4. Members of the unintended demographic shouldn’t be considered real men.

How does someone address claims like that?  You’d think that there’s no need to, they’re all just so fucking out there, right?  But these aren’t just reactions from your garden-variety blooming puberty flower, 12 year old boy needing to be mean to people and pound their flat chests in order to bury to their roots all of their insecurities, the universality of these kinds of responses requires more numbers, and some of these reactions are broadcast on TV, Internet news, and segments of the Internet with higher credibility than YouTube comments and Deviant Art groups.  And it's not just the usual suspects like Fox News and the Breitbart blog, there's people who are actually genuinely smart finding themselves attempting to justify their intense dislike in admittedly positions of higher thought, but with close enough amounts of holes to consider them bedfellows of the aforementioned adolescent assholes.  I could address these guys, some of whom I have a great deal of respect for, certain Kings of Geek Rock, radio and Internet comedy writing stand out, but the truth of the matter is that they're all coming from the same place, at least that's what I suspect; the pitiful nature of their arguments at least points to that.  But to see and understand it all, there is no better way than to just look at the veil-less, blunt and omnipresent opinions listed above.  

So let’s start with the easiest one here and work our way to the ones that are incredibly difficult to refute because of their iron clad wisdom based upon cold reason and oodles of evidence.

BRONIES ARE QUITTIN’ THEIR JOBS BECAUSE THEY’RE MANCHILDREN AND SO OBSESSED AND SHIT LOL THEY JUST WANT TO STAY HOME ALL DAY AND PLAY WITH THEIR PONIES.  I’ve heard this said a lot.  I’ve never seen a news article or story that referred to specific people, strike that, even one specific adult, male fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic who has quit their job in order to stay at home and watch My Little Pony.  Just think about this, people.  Think about the TV show you like most.  Now imagine that there are only 1 and a half seasons of episodes (Around when I first started hearing about this.) 

Why would you quit your fucking job and sever your source of income to watch a show?  Would a single person do this?  Would a group of people do this?  In this economy?  Someone would willingly give up their job to stay at home and watch a handful of twenty-minute cartoons?  Even if they REALLY like them, why would someone do that?

Why is anybody latching onto this evidence-free concept when it doesn’t even make sense as like, a thing?  Wouldn’t you want to hear the details on why such an irrational beast(s) would exist?  Wouldn’t that be your first instinct to go to when you hear something that doesn’t make sense?  Evidence don’t matter to a lot of people, but why would people brush passed all of that?  You don’t need to do any work; you just need to have your brain react to what you’re hearing.  But something’s blocking that for people who subscribe to this belief.  More on that in a bit…

EVERY BRONY IS A FUKIN SECKSAL DEVIANT WHO GETS BONERS LOOKING AT THE PONIES AND THEY MAKE ALL THIS DISGUSTING PORN LOOK AT THEM FAPPING TO STUFF I DONT FAP TO WHAT FREAKS!  That's right.  Onto the masturbating.  And porn.  This is the shit that really fucking irks me.  What fucking possesses people to care about what gets people they don’t know off?  Who fucking cares?  And why is this said as if it's a particularly My Little Pony fandom thing?  This is what happens to EVERYTHING on the Internet.  In fact, the idea that everything that exists has porn made of it is called Rule 34 of the Internet.  That’s been long agreed upon before all of this Pony madness.  Is there too much Pony Porn?  How would one even know that without going out and searching for all of the Pony Porn and finding that the amount is excessively greater than that of another show with a large fan base?  Or is it just that it exists?  Forget that Rule 34 thing for just a second and think here.  All that is happening here is someone bringing themselves to orgasm, something EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING WITH A HEALTHY SEX DRIVE DOES, while looking at lines on a screen that are supposed to depict something.  Why should you hate someone for doing that?  Why should you assume that this is what every single member of the unintended demographic, that is just people who like the show, does?  Why aren’t we assuming the same thing about fans of Firefly, or Gilligan’s Island, or Lost, or Powerpuff Girls?

     I mean, sure, it's weird.  To me at least.  There's just nothing sexually appealing to me about cartoon horses, but there's also nothing appealing to me about men.  People's attraction to men being a point of difference to me, it doesn't strike me at all to be mean or hate people whose wiring makes them wanna touch their happy parts looking at something I go eww at.

   Quick sidenote, these folk who get off on the cartoon ponies are called "cloppers", and replace the popular Internet term for masturbation, fapping or to fap, with clopping or to clop.  Like when a horse's hooves clop on the ground?  I just think that's fucking hilarious.  Ha ha ha.  Anyways...

     ID BE OKAY WITH THE FUCKING BRONIE FAGS IF THEY WERENT ALWAYS SHOVING THEIR STUPID SHOW DOWN MY THROAT AND FORCING ME TO JOIN THEM I DONT WANNA RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!  Alright.  Everyone?  You too.  No.  Not you.  Everyone.  Nobody can force you to do anything you don't want to.  People being geeks about a show and wanting other people to watch it isn't "shoving it down your throat", and on the internet, where most of these cases are, it is especially fucking easy to ignore people who are saying things you don't want to hear.  You just stop.  If someone is harassing you, there are ways to keep them away from you but I suspect if anyone were harassing someone over the Internet to get them to watch a tv show, it's not the show in question, or fans in general of it that are the problem.


    Again, this is something that happens with every single other show that people like.  They are geeks, they like the show, they think other people would like it if they watched it, so they tell other people about it.  I watch Sherlock or some other fucking show and I fall in love with it, I tell my friends, my family about it and maybe they'll like it to.  If they don't like it, they can just not watch it, it's not like I'm the Fascist overlord of their freetime.  If my little sister, of a friend of mine tells me about a show that they love, after a while I'll try and check it out, and the same thing happens.  Worst case scenario, it'll be bad, but not bad enough to learn shit from it, and I'll just stop watching it.  Best case scenario, I am exposed to fucking Deadwood, The West Wing or Doctor Who and it changes my life.


   Seriously.  This is shit that every single damn show and fandom gets away with.  People like something, they talk about it, they recommend it.  It reminds me of people bitching about: "I'm fine with gay guys, just so long as they're not in my face about it, or hit on me or nothing."  It's a fucking double standard.  Girls who talk forever about how cute a guy is are never called out for being "in your face" about their heterosexuality.  And if you don't like being hit on by people you aren't attracted to, then why aren't dudes ever saying: "I'm fine with (insert kind of girl they aren't personally attracted to) girls, just so long as they don't hit on me."  It's just because these people are different that they are given different rules to follow, not because it's logical.  A gay guy taking a chance and flirting with a guy, unaware as to whether or not he's gay or even attracted to him is isn't acceptable because he's gay, and fans of My Little Pony being geeks about their show isn't acceptable because they're fans of My Little Pony.

     And here's where we get to the why.  Why this unintended demographic is getting special rules that they have to follow that no one else has to.  Why this thing gets more from people than just intrigue and wanting to know more because of how different it is.  Why people hate My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and its male adult fandom: 

     NO MAN WHO WATCHES A FUCKING CARTOON FOR 3 YEAR OLD GIRLS CAN BE CONSIDERED A REAL MAN!

     Read my Internet-lips: NEARLY EVERYTHING EVERYONE DECIDES IS "FOR" MEN, OR "FOR" WOMEN IS DECIDED COMPLETELY ARBITRARILY.  That's right.  Just about everything that any culture decides is "for" or "not for" men or women is chosen for stupid reasons, held tightly by fanaticism and ever changing.  What is deemed MASCULINE varies arbitrarily depending upon when and where you're born.  A Greek hero cries his eyes out and he's a fucking MAN; he cries his eyes out in America in the fifties or even now and he's a fucking pussy.  The color pink went from being considered a manly color to blue, which was once considered a feminine color.  Now they're fucking flip-flopped like all of a sudden some scientist figured out that if a boy wears pink that his penis will slowly retreat into his body and turn into a vagina.     Sure, there are some aspects of male and female personality that can be chalked up to differences in our biology, but skirts, colors, withholding emotion, long hair, short hair, nearly all of the shit that your culture screams at your face as a child as FOR BOYS, or FOR GIRLS, that is imaginary.  If I paint my nails, wear a pink dress every day, watch My Little Pony and read Twilight, my anatomy will not change in the slightest, I will be a man no matter what in the fuck I do.  My being a man has been decided before I was born and no matter how long that dress is on me, there will still be a fucking penis under it. 
  
     Some women are comfortable being "traditionally" feminine-

     -And some women are more comfortable being what some cultures consider to be "masculine"

     Let them be who they are.  Why must one’s Manliness or Womanliness be dictated by arbitrary rules?  You got a dick or you don’t.*

     This, I think, is the root of the whole despising of Bronies thing.  People are either way too caught up in gender roles like it's still fucking 1950, or are either not secure in their own masculinity for whatever reason and being mean to someone who is doing something not-so-masculine makes them feel better about themselves.  Sure being a bully like that does upset some people, some to the point of becoming assholes themselves, but in the end it's just fucking funny.  A group of men who are open about their love for a cartoon that was made for an audience of young girls are fucking comfy with themselves and their masculinity.  They're aware of how little impact is made purely from the act of being perceived, otherwise, the negative perception others have of them would keep them from revealing their love for the show.  That's why in the end it is just fucking funny.  They are trying to attack a group who are mostly by definition immune to what they're doing.  Like a goddamned, pissed off, toothless dog gnawing at your ankle thinking he's ripping your flesh awf.  But more adorable.     Some might assume with the amount of attention I'd give to this topic that I myself, could be were among the accursed unintended demographic.  And that's unfair.  Is using this subject as an avenue to discuss important cultural subjects such a goddamn crime that you have to put me up on a witch trial and act like you know every goddamn thing about me?  Alright, fine, I fucking love My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

     But what would be unfair to assume is that my thoughts on the controversy surrounding it are tainted by my having a dog/pony in this fight.  If I didn't enjoy the show I would still feel the same way.  How do I know?  Because when I first found out about all of this, I watched the first episode and didn't really like it all that much.  I still felt the same exact way that feel now, I just kind of didn't want to watch it.  I thought maybe if I had a son or a daughter, this would be a show that I would love to watch with them, but by myself?  Not so much.  I talked to a friend of mine about it, who got into show after that.  He told me to give it another chance, I did, with full knowledge that me and him don't see eye to eye on some shows, and that he has in the past recommended I watch shows that outright fucking blew.  I watched a few more episodes and started to appreciate it more than I did when I all I saw was the pilot.

      Everything you would expect from a show called fucking "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" is burned alive aside from that there's colorful girl ponies.  At first glance, you might write off the characters as archetypes, but the writers of the show go out of their way right out the door to show how these characters break your preconceptions of them.  The writers also go out of their way to test the emotional and mental limit of each of the main characters pretty regularly, leading to many episodes where a pony has a fucking mental break down or psychotic rivaling those of previous cartoon-psycho champion Ren Hoek.  They are all distinct and loveable, but the show doesn't go the Simpsons route by always evolving them and bringing up elements or characters that challenge them and make them grow.

    And the music.  Sometimes it's cute and acoustic, sometimes it's sweeping and epic...  sometimes it's heartstring-tugging, somtimes it's intentionally lame and cheesey, but it's always wonderful, and catchier than some fucking catchy monster made of catchers mitts.

    It's also just a lot of fucking fun.  It's galaxies away from the blandness of the original show, it's actually pretty goddamn cartoony, taking many cues from Looney Tunes while still keeping it colorful (not blechingly so) and cute.  If you keep in mind that it has to be a children's show first and appreciate how much it achieves within those limitations, most of the flaws can be chalked up to a show within its first season finding itself.

    

Betcha didn't think they'd be dropping anvils on wounded ponies in wheelchairs, did ya?

     This is a great show, in my opinion.  If you watch the show, disagree with my opinion and want to argue yours, then let's have some goddamn discourse and share our points of view in hopes of walking away from the experience more knowledgeable of the other side, and having strengthened our thoughts on our own at the least.  But not watching the show and having an opinion on it and having such intense dislike of people who love it and supporting your dislike with such childish, immature reasons like the above, is just a fucking waste of hate. 

     There are people, ideas and actions that deserve a shit ton of hate bred from logical observation and reason.  If you have extreme dislike for people who have done terrible shit, that just shows that you feel things and you're not an emotionless fucking creep.  It all depends upon being logical and hungry for evidence at the start, though.  The simple acts of someone enjoying a show you don't like, masturbating to something you wouldn't, and not following arbitrary gender roles do no harm to ANYONE.  And hating someone for those reasons alone, when they have harmed no one is just another example what it is about us that makes us fuck everything up.  We don't give a shit about things that matter and make demons of people who have done no harm to anyone.  Hate that could fuel Good Change, being wasted on people who like a show about cartoon ponies who never did no hurt to nobody.

“I never expected to work on a show based on a toy line, but I accepted the project based on my sincere childhood love of the toy and Hasbro’s desire to create an entertaining show that is not just a long toy commercial. 

 

“When I took the job, I braced myself for criticism, expecting many people–without even watching the show–to instantly label it girly, stupid, cheap, for babies or an evil corporate commercial. I encourage skeptics like this to watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic with an open mind. If I’m doing my job right, I think you’ll be surprised.”

-Lauren Faust

“And it don’t matter who you are.  If I’m doing my job, it’s your resolve that breaks.”
-John Popper

*I hope none of this is read as anti-anything aside from the subject of the essay, particularly anti-trans; that was far from my intention.  What I mean is that liking this show has no effect on both your anatomy and your gender-identity.  To simplify: by "having a dick", I mean also: "knowing that you were meant to have been born with a dick." and otherwise.  For the sake of not having to address this giant issue that deserves its own 40 page essay devoid of pony-distractions, please overlook this, it kind of would have complicated and muddled up the essay, so it's understandable.  No disrespect was intended.

Also, after last week I saw Princess and the Frog.  Giant fucking exception to what I said about Disney children's media before.  Kind of seemed like it was made rewriting the worst aspects of Disney of the past in mind...