Count Dookkake
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I can enjoy the Star Wars prequels without the need to compare my struggle for acceptance with the Civil Rights Movement.
Cry more, pony boys.
Cry more, pony boys.
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Explain to me this pony thing
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Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Come on, what would they be attracted to if there was no show at all?
It's just not a sexual orientation.
There is nothing wrong about liking the show (at all), I doubt many here would complain about that. It's when people see it as something sexual when it shouldn't be that's the problem.
I have to admit I feel little sympathy for people who defend it as some sort of life style when it completely isn't.
This whole thing has be tainted by those people.
UGH.
Is being open about liking a show "putting yourself in a situation where people treat you like shit?" I mean, that shit is pretty blatant victim shaming.
Guy likes something > Someone makes fun of him for that > "Hey man, you shouldn't have been open about liking it!"
How about you save some of that for the actual asshole who treats him like shit?!
Well, I'm not going to write the same thing again - I guess I couldn't get through, and there's nothing I can do about it. I rather be as open about myself as I want and fuck the haters. I just don't understand why you all feel the need to blame the victims rather than the people who make them feel like shit. But suite yourself I guess.
My god... invading a public space with their vile existence? Have the bronies monsters no limits? Is nothing sacred?
Why do you wear a pony sticker?
Acerac
Banned
*Shrug* What can I say, I believe that with reasoned discussion understanding can be had. It's an unrealistic mindset, to be sure. What can I say, I like to hold some hope that not some people have open minds about stuff.
I stopped hiding who I am when I graduated from highschool. It's not worth it.
Conversely, I can not compare two struggles personally I've experienced without somebody spouting some unnecessary bullshit like this.
Odd how that works.
Meh I don't feel like typing this again pretend I was responding to you and giving extra info that you didn't ask for.
Kind of sounds like furrys and their cries of "fursecution".
Personally, MLP is not my show. It's noteworthy in that doesn't actively go out of its way to insult my intelligence. It bores me in the sense that it fails to stimulate the part of my brain that has developed past adolescence and entered adulthood. It's the perfect example of a show that my critical self would 'approve' to my child -- from a distance.
And posts like these represent the opposite extreme to the brony thing, where threads on cartoon animal characters turn into circle-jerks during which people pat themselves on the back for accomplishing the grand feat of being normal compared to the 'socially awkward' freaks who are potentially capable of paedophilia or bestiality -- "but who cares about distinctions when they can be all be lumped under the general category of The Mentally Ill."
And posts like these represent the opposite extreme to the brony thing, where threads on cartoon animal characters turn into circle-jerks during which people pat themselves on the back for accomplishing the grand feat of being normal compared to the 'socially awkward' freaks who are potentially capable of paedophilia or bestiality -- "but who cares about distinctions when they can be all be lumped under the general category of The Mentally Ill."
dream
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He said that he doesn't even like the show anymore. He's just defending it because he "just can't understand the hate." That just seems like feeding a persecution complex to me.
The Albatross
Member
I just don't get it either. Heard a story about it recently on Marketplace on NPR, and I had heard of the MLP fan thing before, but I just don't get it. I'm not even trying to be mean here or criticizing people who like something that I don't, but, as far as I know, it's something for little girls... But has scores of grown men who are fans. We all like some different things, but this is just something that I don't understand. I dunno.
Devolution
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Maybe you should actually watch it.
Acerac
Banned
I still hang out with the community. I'm in ponygaf chat right now.
It is good to know you still hate us though. With the recent lack of pony topics I've not seen nearly as much of you or Jenga. <3
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I don't think this is about the ponies. You think that people, no matter what their interest, should be loud and proud. I find that these people can be pretty obnoxious, no matter what the interest. I think that's where we differ. Thanks for the civil discussion.
I did, they act like any group of nerd I've ever seen. Nothing especially offensive about them. But if they caused Toys 'R Us any problems, I'm quite sure a multi-million dollar corporation can take care of its interest and main revenue source (little kids and their parents) without you or me to help it.
What was so Harmful about it, though? They didn't curse or act inappropriately in any way, are they too ugly?
And again. Why is there a community...? South Park is hugely popular but I don't ever remember a South Park community chat, let alone a South Park community...
Owlowiscious
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Why do people have stickers of fotball teams on their cars? Or wear football themed shirts?
Acerac
Banned
...because somebody made one?
There's animegaf, pokegaf, gaf main chat... take the initiative. Maybe you could meet some people who have similar interests.
Sports are something that can actually be engaged in the real world. You can actually play them and experience them live in person, in reality. Sports are something that have existed for nearly all of recorded history and have been and are a source of civic pride. For most people supporting a sports team isn't just being behind that team but rather the city they live in or have a relationship with.
I enjoy watching TV but I would never want to try to associate with somebody because of a tv show. I'm sure I would hate the majority of people who enjoy many of the tv shows that I do. In the same way I hate many of the people who like the sports team I do.
Let's take a hypothetical situation: Some guy likes Mario, he gets a little 8bit Mario sticker to put on his badge at work. Some people come over, see it, and make fun of him for being a nerd, for liking a game for kids, and for being a general outcast. Whose fault is it?
A. The guy for being open about liking a game.
B. The assholes who made fun of him.
Think carefully.
Using Mario for this example doesn't work. He's a socially acceptable cultural icon.
Owlowiscious
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For most people? What about the others? Surely everyone should be judged on the acts of the few unmentionables. I heard there was a riot due to a football game once. Please don't have a riot, mr football fan
C. Everyone likes Mario.
There are often riots because of sports. But if somebody gives me shit for liking my teams I'm not going to get offended and wonder why they don't like me for it. I'm just going to shrug it off because that is life.
Acerac
Banned
Some humans like associating with people who share similar interests. Not gonna lie, you're probably in the minority of people who don't.
As a sidenote, my tag randomly disappeared. That's what I get for defending ponies on GAF I guess. The comical part is my boyfriend's partner tag remains.
People have identified with fictional characters for all of recorded history.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
This is what it is for me as well. I enjoy Phineas and Ferb. Hell, I just spent most of last week rewatching Dexters Lab. But it seems like the pony fanbase is...different. There's a level of community there that I just don't understand. Not even adventure time has the same kind of effect I think
Owlowiscious
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It did in the 80's. For the few that liked Mario, they had a Mario Fan Club. So that people who liked Mario could associate with each other and relate to each other. These people were ridiculed for playing video games and it was seen as a bad habit, and that people get addicted to it.
A FF4 character then. Amaterasu from Okami. Whatever character you want. And also, that's bullshit, many people don't give a shit about Mario.
But whatever, if you want to miss the point, go ahead.
Is being a brony a choice, or are you born that way?
Wow. I don't see how any adult who isn't a pedophile could like The Phantom Menace. You need help.
the brony life definitely choose you
Owlowiscious
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The juxtoposition there is hilarious.
Devolution
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On the average day he will have the following:
- Rainbow Dash necklace
- Rainbow Dash sunglasses
- "20% Cooler" shoulder strap bag
- "20% Cooler" jacket
- Rainbow Dash "SWAG" t-shirt
- Rainbow Dash sweatpants
- probably Rainbow Dash boxers
FO-totality
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Owlowiscious
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GrizzNKev, I'm trying to understand your OP more.
College? Highschool? I didn't get the term teammate? I thought it was adults at work, but I find it odd someone would share porn at the workplace.
College? Highschool? I didn't get the term teammate? I thought it was adults at work, but I find it odd someone would share porn at the workplace.
OP, I must know, is there any reason to tell us this other than to circle-jerk and make fun of the guy? It just feels so cheap, everyone here is laughing at him, and he doesn't even know about this thread. I really hope for him he doesn't consider you a friend.
Guess now that he's religious even the small pockets of people not ripping him apart will give in.
Well, whatever I guess, have fun.
Guess now that he's religious even the small pockets of people not ripping him apart will give in.
Well, whatever I guess, have fun.
DrForester
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Well, least he knows who the best pony is.
While you have a point, your example is also not the same. Nobody's been killed over MLP as far as I know... but nobody has been accused of being a paedophile for liking the Star Wars prequels, either.
Well, at least not seriously.
There is a middle ground.
You know what you must do. Get in his pants. For science.
if its any consolation, I'm pretty sure that was an organized trip, or atleast you won't genrally see a bunch of men gravitating in the ToyRUs girl aisles.
happens so rarely that it's almost not even worth mentioning. But it does provide a negative example and seems to get undue focus. Like the above men crowding out all the girls at the toy store.
LaserBuddha
Member
Maybe it's catharsis, Jiminy.
Devolution
Member
Because I fail to understand the intensity of his obsession and I figure GAF, harboring a pony community itself, would be able to explain it to me better than he can.
I have a lot of respect for the guy. He's a super smart programmer (C and C++ for whoever asked earlier) when left to his own work. I spend sooooooooo much time around him, it eventually got to the point where I needed to know more to understand him better.
I saw the ridicule coming, and I do find his love of ponies strange. I didn't expect this thread to blow up so quickly though, my threads usually suck. I didn't do this to make fun of anyone. Sorry.
College. Video game development. Ongoing semester-long project. Crunch time. All-nighters. The whole deal.
ColtraineGF
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What does the one thing have to do with the other?
Unless you want to give people more reason to mock him any more than has already happened.
Owlowiscious
Member
Eh.... college is the time to be stupid like this.
Because wacky fandoms usually go hand in hand with resentment of parents or society and rebellion against religion or established beliefs.
It was an observation.
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