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I for once am tired of the debate if MLP is for boys or not. It's a freaking horse toy.
I for once am tired of the debate if MLP is for boys or not. It's a freaking horse toy. If parents feel some type of way about that they better never let their sons watch Sea Biscuit, War Horse or all these other movies that praise men for their special friendship with horses.If you are a woman and like horses, you always get pushed into the kids/teen category. Even books are mostly YA. Serious movies with big budgets are male-dominated, even the horses that appear in them tend to be all stallions.Even when you are a girl and like horses you are often considered a stupid "horse girl" and hardly get any praise for it. People infantilize your interest and you get subjected to weird psycho-analysis and ridicule. You don't want to know the weird crap people have come up with in the past to explain why girls like horses...
The UK comic unequivocally said that pony stories are for boys and girls and encouraged boys to write in and send photos as well as girls. Which has to be a good thing, right?
I'm really glad that they did this because I wasn't allowed to have mlp when I was little. I remember one time a loooooooooooooooong time ago my mom finally gave in and bought me a little tube of fakies while we were grocery shopping. I had a blast with them until my dad got home and they all mysteriously vanished.....
Quote from: BubbleTea on June 08, 2019, 05:27:24 PMI'm really glad that they did this because I wasn't allowed to have mlp when I was little. I remember one time a loooooooooooooooong time ago my mom finally gave in and bought me a little tube of fakies while we were grocery shopping. I had a blast with them until my dad got home and they all mysteriously vanished.....I’m so sorry that that happened to you, BubbleTea. I just don’t understand why some people are so caught up in gender stereotypes, to the point that they would not allow a child to play with a toy pony...
Quote from: Nemesis on June 08, 2019, 07:11:58 PMQuote from: BubbleTea on June 08, 2019, 05:27:24 PMI'm really glad that they did this because I wasn't allowed to have mlp when I was little. I remember one time a loooooooooooooooong time ago my mom finally gave in and bought me a little tube of fakies while we were grocery shopping. I had a blast with them until my dad got home and they all mysteriously vanished.....I’m so sorry that that happened to you, BubbleTea. I just don’t understand why some people are so caught up in gender stereotypes, to the point that they would not allow a child to play with a toy pony...Thanks Nemesis. The thing that still bothers me is that they weren't even that girly. They weren't even PINK (they had a strict no- pink rule ) They were just green and purple. I already had green and purple things. The only thing that made them "unsuitable" for me was the brand recognition and mlp being " for girls" .That doesn't mean that I didn't get to play with mlps though. My cousin had them and I would always play with them when I was over.
Taffeta, your PhD sounds fascinating. I know very little about Japanese equestrian culture - are there parallels with the European traditions of the horseman?Sorry if going off topic a bit (though it is relevant as this 'ponies are for girls' is a very very modern phenomenon and far from universal)