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Or how about we just accept that guys can like girly toys instead of making everything "gender neutral"?Heaven forbid a guy needs to buy something in a pink packaging...
Instead of changing MLP, we need to make society 'grow up' and learn that being 'girly' isn't a bad thing.
Quote from: Judhudson on December 03, 2014, 12:39:12 PMI would love to see adult shirts of MLP for both ladies and guys in stores like Walmart and Target, but what gets me is how they have tons of shirts/clothes for little girls - but nothing for the boys! Tons of boys like MLP, my nephew is one of them. He'd love to have pony merch. Missed marketing potential from Hasbro. :/Actually I've seen Brony shirts at Hot Topics and Walmart had a shirt with a Pony silhouette that had the word Stud underneath in KISS-like letters. I thought it was pretty funny
I would love to see adult shirts of MLP for both ladies and guys in stores like Walmart and Target, but what gets me is how they have tons of shirts/clothes for little girls - but nothing for the boys! Tons of boys like MLP, my nephew is one of them. He'd love to have pony merch. Missed marketing potential from Hasbro. :/
MLP would be pretty awesome an adventure high-fantasy series like the G1 cartoon.
Quote from: Sparkle Pony on December 04, 2014, 12:36:47 PMMLP would be pretty awesome an adventure high-fantasy series like the G1 cartoon. And this really isn't making it gender neutral. This is accepting that girls can be adventures too.
For a moment I thought the title was referring to having characters of non-binary genders. Which is still unlikely, unfortunately.On the actual topic at hand, though:Quote from: Malicieuse on December 03, 2014, 03:43:43 PMOr how about we just accept that guys can like girly toys instead of making everything "gender neutral"?Heaven forbid a guy needs to buy something in a pink packaging...I don't really see the need to make colorful plastic ponies exclusive to one gender or another.
Quote from: Mrbrightsky on December 04, 2014, 12:41:15 PMFor a moment I thought the title was referring to having characters of non-binary genders. Which is still unlikely, unfortunately.On the actual topic at hand, though:Quote from: Malicieuse on December 03, 2014, 03:43:43 PMOr how about we just accept that guys can like girly toys instead of making everything "gender neutral"?Heaven forbid a guy needs to buy something in a pink packaging...I don't really see the need to make colorful plastic ponies exclusive to one gender or another. This really isn't about making things exclusive to one gender. Every time i see a topic like this it's basicly about making ponies "less girly".Cause "girly" (whatever that means) is bad or something.
I think the better goal is to make "girly" less of a bad thing. Our perception of "girly" is weakness and frivolousness. G1 seemed to be trying to buck that trend by having a bunch of female ponies with ribbons in their tails go on adventures you could just as easily see male characters go on. The ponies were girly, but their conflicts weren't always stereotypical "girl" conflicts. I'm really not sure if I worded that right but I hope you get what I mean.
I see what you mean. But we need to teach that being "girly" isn't all about weakness. You can be "girly" and still be a strong person. We need to re-define what being girly really is.