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I was a g1 pony boy as a kid and i never felt uncomfortable collecting ponies
I also feel the need to say that "being girly" is often considered to fit a certain stereotype. I don't think RamC etc are "more adventury" to appeal to guys. That rather suggests girls can't like those things too, which is the fundamental problem behind some of the themes heavily pushed in G4. (Can't Rarity be a successful businesswoman in something other than fashion, and does she have to be so superficially obsessed with clothing, hair, and jewellery??)
I had Hearts & Candy (called My Valentine over here), Champagne & Lace and Tennis Fun as a kid for ponywear. There may have been others but they stick in my mind. I wasn't huge on dressing my ponies up, especially with the shoes, which my little fingers hated and basically gave up when it came to the C&L slippers. I kind of never saw them like doll clothes though, let alone fashion...as ponies didn't need to wear stuff...? And I wasn't into dolls.There's nothing wrong with those things for girls either, I just wanted to make the point that we can't define what the audience is for the original animation based on how adventurey it is. It's a common and unfortunate assumption that girls can't just like that stuff anyway. At school with my friends (male and female) our ponies fought wars against invading zombie warlords. So anyway. Just wanted to put that out there. I feel my point has been taken off the point...which is that it's wearing that Hasbro chose those stereotypes to underscore Rarity's character.There's also a difference for me between Heart Throb and Rarity simply because G1 didn't operate a M6 structure, thus HT is not as core to the story as Rarity is. Personally I think G4's girls are all stereotypes, not actually relateable as 'female characters', but that's just me. The other gens had their fair share of animated stereotypes as well. I'm not a huge fan of G1 animation, but at least watching it I don't feel like gender stereotypes are being pushed at me in the way I do feel when in the past I've watched G4 (or even maybe G3). There's a difference between interested in fashion, and 'hair, make up, nails, dahling'. @Lonewolf - I think from the photos I took, MLP & Friends issue #27.
There's nothing wrong with those things for girls either, I just wanted to make the point that we can't define what the audience is for the original animation based on how adventurey it is. It's a common and unfortunate assumption that girls can't just like that stuff anyway. At school with my friends (male and female) our ponies fought wars against invading zombie warlords. So anyway. Just wanted to put that out there. I feel my point has been taken off the point...which is that it's wearing that Hasbro chose those stereotypes to underscore Rarity's character.There's also a difference for me between Heart Throb and Rarity simply because G1 didn't operate a M6 structure, thus HT is not as core to the story as Rarity is. Personally I think G4's girls are all stereotypes, not actually relateable as 'female characters', but that's just me. The other gens had their fair share of animated stereotypes as well. I'm not a huge fan of G1 animation, but at least watching it I don't feel like gender stereotypes are being pushed at me in the way I do feel when in the past I've watched G4 (or even maybe G3). There's a difference between interested in fashion, and 'hair, make up, nails, dahling’.