I was immediately concerned that the only pony that looked slightly angry or tomboyish was the rainbow pony. Since there’s a false stereotype that all feminists are angry, tomboyish lesbians, it was disconcerting to think that a kid’s TV show would uphold this.
Is it just me, or does sociological criticism like this pretty much always boil down to hypocritical circular reasoning? "That one pony looks tomboyish. This evil patriarchical society thinks all feminists are angry or that lesbians are all tomboys or tomboys are all lesbian feminists but in a bad way or some combination of that, therefore this pony, created by patriarchs, cannot simply be a tomboy, but must be a horrid stereotype of angry tomboy lesbian feminists, which is bad. How dare they!"
Self-righteous assumptions like that really **** me off. As Lauren Faust said in
her rebuttal, "As we all know, there are plenty of straight tomboys in the world, and assuming they are lesbians is extremely unfair to both straight and lesbian tomboys."
I showed the video to fellow Ms. intern/blogger Kyle and asked, “What’s wrong with this picture?” he responded, “There aren’t any black ponies. Why aren’t there any brothas on the wall?” I had originally assumed that the purple ponies were supposed to represent black ponies, but he was right–the ponies don’t seem very racially diverse.
There aren't any Caucasian ponies either, dumb***. Because they're ponies.
Actually, I'm pretty sure Kyle was mocking you.
My Little Pony teaches girls that you need the government (ideally a monarch invested with supreme ultimate power and a phallic symbol strapped to her forehead) to tell you what to do with your life.
Okay, this has to be a parody site.
