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[dude]

Because Spock is played a by a real-person wearing prosthetic ears?

I mean, when you fantasize about Spock, you're probably thinking of his portrayal by Leonard Nimoy, and thus there's an objective, real human-being to fantasize about.

So fantasizing about anime characters is, in your opinion, as bad as pony fantasies? Because there is no real live human to think about? Anyone who reads hentai should suffer the same internet mocking as bronies do? 'cuz they're both as sick.

Yeah seriously I have to explain the god damn difference between fanfiction shipping about humanoids to drawing pony porn or making sex toys out of plushies. Cannot believe this conversation is happening.

Mocking my question does not constitute an answer. I want to know what is the difference that makes fantasizing about ponies more wrong or crazy than doing the same to humans. Explain it to me.

 

[Ferrio]

Right? The whole "accept people as they are" argument only goes so far. There is such a thing as being mentally unwell.

You're not going to help anyone if you further cast them aside as mental rejects. The first phase of helping is not to shit all over them.

 

[JordanN]

Explain to me how fantasizing about made-up humans is different than fantasizing about made-up ponies, please.

One is zoophilia (sometimes labeled as obscene)

Consenting humans is completely normal and healthy.

Edit: Meant to say Zoophilia

 

[SDBurton]

My apologies to all waifus out there. At least you are humanoid.

Apology accepted!

 

[Skeyser]

For over a decade? Do you have a job yet? Or is mom still paying your bills?

Really? That was uncalled for.

 

[FO-totality]

Let me just take a look at the Awesome Fan Art Thread...

Here's one...

I've seen worse

 

[TUSR]

So fantasizing about anime characters is, in your opinion, as bad as pony fantasies? Because there is no real live human to think about?

THIS WHOLE THREAD IS BAN BAIT

 

[Emerson]

I send my friends weird shit all the time. Fuck, am I secretly a brony?

This clearly falls into the "prank" clause outlined in my post.

 

[Ferrio]

One is bestiality (which is generally outlawed).

Consenting humans is completely normal and healthy.

I'm going to take a wild guess that there's quite a few star trek fanfics where they don't consent.

 

[Hitokage]

Guys, I heard bronies are converting our kids to satanism.

SATANISM! WHY ISN'T MORE DONE ABOUT THIS?

 

[Acerac]

There is no such thing as this.

Nobody ever just shows a friend some porn as a matter of interest or as a joke, unless it's a deliberate prank to gross someone out. If you're being shown weird porn by someone who is sitting there and laughing "this is so stupid, look at this" they actually love it.

Speak for yourself.

I've seen some AMAZING fat pokemon porn that just begged to be shared. Sometimes horror crosses over in to comedy.

*Shrug*

 

[Link]

You're not going to help anyone if you further cast them aside as mental rejects. The first phase of helping is not to shit all over them.

You're not going to help them by pretending there's nothing wrong, either.

 

[SillyEskimo]

They remind me of the kids obsessed with WWF and all that wrestling stuff back in the day. It's really the only comparison I have. It's pretty nutty!

 

[Devolution]

You're not going to help anyone if you further cast them aside as mental rejects. The first phase of helping is not to shit all over these people.

Some of them, like the guy in the OP, definitely have some social problems and cannot understand social cues. Acting like it's the fault of others not being open-minded enough is a farce. Comparing it to homosexuality is stupid.

 

[EdibleExplosives]

This clearly falls into the "prank" clause outlined in my post.

If it's a joke, wouldn't it always be a prank though? The whole point of the joke is that it's weird.

And I was joking around, I wasn't being a dick about your post by joking about being a brony.

 

[littleworm]

Right? The whole "accept people as they are" argument only goes so far. There is such a thing as being mentally unwell.

And you can prove that they are mentally unwell right? Like scientifically prove it? It's not simply someone expressing their interests in their own way? Even more so if these people were mentally unwell the obvious recourse is to demean and ridicule them right.

 

[Skeyser]

Speak for yourself.

I've seen some AMAZING fat pokemon porn that just begged to be shared. Sometimes horror crosses over in to comedy.

*Shrug*

Snorlaxes porn?

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

I'm going to take a wild guess that there's quite a few star trek fanfics where they don't consent.

They're assimilated.

 

[The Living Tribunal]

From the pics that make you laugh thread

And it gets worse.

 

[Tesseract]

dude from now on, like, whenever he asks you a question you'd answer no to, say neigh instead.

 

[dude]

One is bestiality (which is generally outlawed).

Consenting humans is completely normal and healthy.

It is not bestiality because no animals are actually needed to fantasize about them. And it's legal to fantasize about anything you want.

From wikipedia:

Zoophilia is a paraphilia involving sexual activity between human and non-human animals or a fixation on such practice.

 

[Hitokage]

Some of them, like the guy in the OP, definitely have some social problems and cannot understand social cues. Acting like it's the fault of others not being open-minded enough is a farce. Comparing it to homosexuality is stupid.

And since they worship satan it's free license to be an asshole. Go nuts!

 

[Emerson]

If it's a joke, wouldn't it always be a prank though? The whole point of the joke is that it's weird.

Not really. If you're sending someone something weird to get a reaction out of them or gross them out, that's clearly a prank right?

If you're sitting with a coworker at work and making him look at MLP porn with you while you're going on about how dumb it is but continuing to show it, it's because you're a weirdo.

 

[Devolution]

And since they worship satan it's free license to be an asshole. Go nuts!

I'd expect better from you. No one I know whether they're into vanilla human sex or ponies rutting just up and shows a classmate porn.

 

[Enter The 36 Chambers]

And since they worship satan it's free license to be an asshole. Go nuts!

Pretty ironic

 

[Flightmare]

Showing porn is weird, no matter what kind of porn it is.

For over a decade? Do you have a job yet? Or is mom still paying your bills?

Grow up

 

[Hitokage]

It is not bestiality because no animal is actually needed to fantasize about one. And it's legal to fantasize about anything you want.

NO THEY PRACTICE MAGIC IT'S IN THE SHOW TITLE.

THEIR FANTASY IS YOUR REALITY

 

[RionaaM]

For all of you who asked: he showed me the interactive, flash-based animations of transsexual pony intercourse on the pretense that I, as a musician and sound designer, should hear the great and stylish background music.

 

[Watch Da Birdie]

fanfiction.net says you're not wrong - lots of overlap with other nerdy fandoms in general (Doctor Who is oddly high in particular).

There was a sight-gag Pony or something based off Doctor Who.

There's a lot of these I've seen brought up...like a Big Lebowski reference too...and it's obviously just the usual adult nods that good animated cartoons for kids include, but it's usually brought up by Bronies as "LOOK! This show was made for me!"

 

[JordanN]

It is not bestiality because no animals are actually needed to fantasize about them. And it's legal to fantasize about anything you want.

Ponies are animals.

And I said bestiality is illegal.

Edit: Oh you mean, animal on animal? Still gross.

 

[LuffyZoro]

There is no such thing as this.

Nobody ever just shows a friend some porn as a matter of interest or as a joke, unless it's a deliberate prank to gross someone out. If you're being shown weird porn by someone who is sitting there and laughing "this is so stupid, look at this" they actually love it.

Damn, better tell people in the "Awesome" fanart thread.

 

[SquiddyCracker]

What?

 

[Acerac]

Snorlaxes porn?

Gym Leaders and Elite Four mostly. Before google changed their search you could google any gym leaders' name and get results that looked to weigh 500+ lbs and were nekkid.

I suppose I should have clarified. >_>

 

[Kangi]

I'd expect better from you. No one I know whether they're into vanilla human sex or ponies rutting just up and shows a classmate porn.

Yeah... I'm going to have to differ from you, here.

 

[Maxim726X]

I've brought this up here before and I was torn apart by whom I would assume to be Bronies.

I tried to understand, I really did... But I just don't. I think part of it has to do with the fact that people won't admit that part of the attraction to the community is that people just don't 'get it' like they do, and they vehemently defend the show as something with deep meaning.

Eh.

 

[EdibleExplosives]

Not really. If you're sending someone something weird to get a reaction out of them or gross them out, that's clearly a prank right?

If you're sitting with a coworker at work and making him look at MLP porn with you while you're going on about how dumb it is but continuing to show it, it's because you're a weirdo.

Oh, then yeah I agree.

 

[Link]

And you can prove that they are mentally unwell right? Like scientifically prove it? It's not simply someone expressing their interests in their own way? Even more so if these people were mentally unwell the obvious recourse is to demean and ridicule them right.

I can prove they are mentally unwell just as you can prove they aren't. The guy the OP is describing? I'll take those odds.

 

[LaserBuddha]

What?

He doesn't even know how light sources work.

 

[Conor 419]

It's a...difficult topic. I can't help but notice the fandom is generally associated with young men and women who have, through age, have never really been brought up to deal with social situations, largely due to the environment factors which are generally outside of their own control.

This is where things potentially get downright offensive but for certain extremes...should this kind of obsession be treated as a mental illness? Can it be considered healthy?

 

[EdibleExplosives]

What?

THE RED BOX IS THE WRONG BOX THATS MAGNIFIED WHY

 

[Ferrio]

Ponies are animals.

And I said bestiality is illegal.

Edit: Oh you mean, animal on animal? Still gross.

MLP is far abstracted from a real pony as possibly can be. The idea that some of these people that are attracted to MLP would go out and fuck a real horse is stretching, not saying some wouldn't.

 

[dude]

Ponies are animals.

And I said bestiality is illegal.

Edit: Oh you mean, animal on animal? Still gross.

Again:

Zoophilia is a paraphilia involving sexual activity between human and non-human animals

Fantasizing is not a sexual activity, thus it's no zoophilia or bestiality. It's just a sexual attraction to an animal, which there can be nothing wrong with because it takes place entirely in your goddamn mind.
Fantasizing about bestiality is perfectly legal. We're some years away from the thought police.

 

[Devolution]

Yeah... I'm going to have to differ from you, here.

Any particularly reason?

Anyway it's not controversial to me to state that people who are really into certain fandoms up to and including showing you the porn have mental issues and problems with social cues. Sorry if you take it personally.

 

[GrizzNKev]

Well how was it?

Also, this one might be NSFW.

I frequently visit 4chan so it's not like it scarred me or anything.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

I never knew about this My Little Pony obsession/subculture until I saw it on GAF.

When I was hanging with my friend at the end of last month, he made a joke about buying an MLP toy for his roommate. I told him there's a subculture of whatever of adults who are really into MLP. He was a bit surprised, to say the least.

 

[Watch Da Birdie]

Damn, better tell people in the "Awesome" fanart thread.

I wouldn't hesitate to say that people in the Awesome Fanart Thread probably on occasion post pictures that they themselves get off too, but realize it might be weird to others, and thus post it with some self-awareness. I mean, lots of people probably have weird fetishes, I know I do, but the difference is that they keep it to themselves and don't advertise it. That's the main problem with "Cloppers", they actively go out of their way to tell about it.

 

[JordanN]

MLP is far abstracted from a real pony as possibly can be. The idea that some of these people that are attracted to MLP would go out and fuck a real horse is stretching, not saying some wouldn't.

A pony is a pony which is an animal. The core concept is still the same (4 legged resembling a horse).

Again:


Fantasizing is not a sexual activity, thus it's no zoophilia or bestiality. It's just a sexual attraction to an animal, which there can be nothing wrong with because it takes place entirely in your goddamn mind.
Fantasizing about bestiality is perfectly legal. We're some years away from the thought police.

Again, I didn't say it wasn't. I'm talking about the act of deriving pleasure from animal sex.

 

[Hitokage]

I'd expect better from you. No one I know whether they're into vanilla human sex or ponies rutting just up and shows a classmate porn.

I would like to expect better from you, but I don't. A blind person can see what happens in these threads, and is happening now.

 

[TUSR]

Again:


Fantasizing is not a sexual activity, thus it's no zoophilia or bestiality. It's just a sexual attraction to an animal, which there can be nothing wrong with because it takes place entirely in your goddamn mind.
Fantasizing about bestiality is perfectly legal. We're some years away from the thought police.

but still totally entirely fucked up

 

[Enter The 36 Chambers]

I wouldn't hesitate to say that people in the Awesome Fanart Thread probably on occasion post pictures that they themselves get off too, but realize it might be weird to others, and thus post it with some self-awareness. I mean, lots of people probably have weird fetishes, I know I do, but the difference is that they keep it to themselves and don't advertise it. That's the main problem with "Cloppers", they actively go out of their way to tell about it.

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