Brony trigger alert - My Little Pony tells children about marxism and equality

[AJ Dual]

Yes, but how does the show depict males? I am not impressed by messages that women are independent and intelligent and strong. In 2015 this is not bold or new or revolutionary. Depicting females as equally capable as males is great; simply depicting females as awesome is just chauvinism.

I don't know, but I assume it's fair. Since it's still ostensibly a "girl franchise" at least superficially, I guess the main characters are all girls?

The one episode that caught my eye while making my kids Saturday morning pancakes was some sort of scam-artist ponies came into town, with red-striped barber shop quartet jackets, and 1910 straw flat-brimmed hats, and whatever they were selling, they did a song that was a 100% shameless rip-off of the first part of "The Music Man" when he's in scam-artist mode and gets the whole town singing the "Trouble" number.

That's when I realized the Bronies were telling the truth about all the "hidden subtext" in the show. I still won't touch the subculture with a 10 foot pole, but I don't beat them up anymore. 

[KD5NRH]

My girlfriend gave me a pony as a gag gift for Valentines Day. It wasn't until I read this article that I learned it is Rainbow Dash. I have never seen the show but she is pretty fabulous.

Rainbow Dash rocks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVCFV7jT9ho

[Devonai]

Where did the confetti come from at the end? It kind of stretches belief.

[dogmush]

Yes, the confetti is where it crosses the line.

[Firethorn]

Yes, the confetti is where it crosses the line.

? If I remember right, it was chucked by other pegasai in the actual show(though unseen big party poppers stored in the upper tiers of the cloud would also work).  That bit in the end was supposed to be a race competition, so them having it ready for celebrating the winner makes sense.

Not to mention that the pink one is the most 'toony' of them all and tends to haul around a 'party' confetti cannon with a bore larger than most Civil War field pieces.

[Boomhauer]

My girlfriend gave me a pony as a gag gift for Valentines Day. It wasn't until I read this article that I learned it is Rainbow Dash. I have never seen the show but she is pretty fabulous.

Let me emphasize the implied FAAAABUUUUULLLLOOUUUSSS in this statement...

[Perd Hapley]

? If I remember right, it was chucked by other pegasai in the actual show(though unseen big party poppers stored in the upper tiers of the cloud would also work).  That bit in the end was supposed to be a race competition, so them having it ready for celebrating the winner makes sense.

Not to mention that the pink one is the most 'toony' of them all and tends to haul around a 'party' confetti cannon with a bore larger than most Civil War field pieces.

This is some of the funniest crap I've read all day.   Thank you.

[Devonai]

My comment about the confetti was indeed a joke about where the suspension of disbelief fails for different sorts of people... and implying that the magical confetti was the only problem I found.

 

[dogmush]

My comment about the confetti was indeed a joke about where the suspension of disbelief fails for different sorts of people... and implying that the magical confetti was the only problem I found.

 

That's as crazy as choosing a WWII era rifle to take into a space battle. 

 

[Devonai]

Hey, there was a time another crewmember suggested it wasn't appropriate for the mission, so he chose Vietnam-era technology instead. 

[MechAg94]

That's as crazy as choosing a WWII era rifle to take into a space battle. 

 

http://www.amazon.com/Into-Hinterlands-Citizen-David-Drake/dp/1451638426/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1430011925&sr=8-4&keywords=david+drake
Well, if you are sort of riding bicycles in space, maybe you can go all the way back to air guns and sling shots. 

[Scout26]

? If I remember right, it was chucked by other pegasai in the actual show(though unseen big party poppers stored in the upper tiers of the cloud would also work).  That bit in the end was supposed to be a race competition, so them having it ready for celebrating the winner makes sense.

Not to mention that the pink one is the most 'toony' of them all and tends to haul around a 'party' confetti cannon with a bore larger than most Civil War field pieces.

This just goes to show how absolutely, 100% correct Cordex's post on page one is. 

[Mannlicher]

Brony, and all that this entails, is just too weird to be normal.  Not even worth discussing.  It just ain't normal.