Meet 'bronies' -- grown men who are fans of My Little Pony

1 guy, 1 cartoon pony

for some rason I thought it saud "kiss men Im british"

2 Mares, 1 Bit

bronely guy just thinking baout things

I love the boilerplate mainstream porn caricature, it always makes it sound like some bizarre scifi cirque de soileil thing

Yeah, there are many kinds of pron incl all the amateur stuff and naturalistic stuff which don't really fit with 'unreal'. But there's still such a thing as your classic 'porn star', and there are still not too many fatties or pubic hairs in the majority of mainstream porn, right?

or sex workers in makeup being as "unreal" as cartoon characters

I'm going out on the shakiest of limbs here to say that sex irl doesn't always involve expensive lingerie and full makeup, and orgasms don't sound like that nor are achieved via those means, and etc etc etc

Not trying to do a moral crusade against porn here - this thread is for moral crusading against bronies - but still think there's mileage in asking if things generally held up as 'sexy', and acceptably so, in our culture are not closer to 'cartoons' than they or us would tend to admit, and you know, maybe these guys who find 'cartoons' 'sexy' are more of a mirror than a door

yo cardamon that is money + zizek-quality. the truth is that the bronies are even more honest in that they completely embrace the unreality of their masturbatory fantasies, unlike the rest of us who deny its refraction from reality by watching real women in stylized porn, or even more dishonest "amateur" porn as tho you can somehow approach reality thru means always illusory.

makes u spank

would Sasha Grey get reamed in the ass whilst wearing a My Little Pony costume?!?

is there such a thing as sex that isn't mediated, at some level, by fantasy?

intervene in a dispute in order to bring about an agreement or reconciliation.
"Wilson attempted to mediate between the powers to end the war"
synonyms: arbitrate, conciliate, moderate, umpire, referee, act as peacemaker, reconcile differences, restore harmony, make peace, bring to terms, liaise; More
intervene in (a dispute) to bring about an agreement.
"set up a tribunal to arbitrate and mediate disputes"
synonyms: resolve, settle, arbitrate in, umpire, reconcile, mend, clear up, patch up More
bring about (an agreement or solution) by intervening in a dispute.
"efforts to mediate a peaceful resolution of the conflict"
synonyms: negotiate, bring about, effect, make happen; More
2.
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bring about (a result such as a physiological effect).
"the right hemisphere plays an important role in mediating tactile perception of direction"
synonyms: arbitrate, conciliate, moderate, umpire, referee, act as peacemaker, reconcile differences, restore harmony, make peace, bring to terms, liaise; More

answer- yeah, yeah of course ffs

stop asking these silly questions, everyone can see you posing with a quill in the air as you do so

i was just saying if we are bringing in zizek/lacan, then from their pov it wouldn't make sense to criticize something because of its distance from "reality" because evading the real is the whole point of language and culture and thought.

no way sex is primordial essential real but i agree that to some extent pornography infringes always

I mean, it's difficult to talk about bronies because once we've exhausted the 'explicit bestiality and overtones of pedophilia' angle, all that's left is the reality/unreality, 'cartoons vs real people' angle. And that means getting philosophical, poss bringing in the aforementioned Lacan and Zizek.

But that feels fundamentally silly, bcoz we're talking about a subculture that registers as totally absurd + is actually very small, the number of ppl on 4chan and reddit and imgur talking abt bronies vastly outnumbering bronies themselves.

Dude fucking his cows on a farm has a certain ... aura that bronies lack.

But none the less sexual attraction to cartoon characters as a whole is pretty widespread and there's some good (perhaps vital) conversations to be had about that

i want to read some vital conversations about cartoon pornography

As a starting point, Google for 'Disney porn'

Treeship have you had intercourse with a real naked lady or man or pony whatever you're into and did you have a "mediator"

Please do not actually answer that query, just think about it when answering in the future

I don't think he meant 'mediate' in that sense, and nor is the sense in which he did mean it any sort of neologism

Anyway, I'm pretty sure that the basic idea of fantasy always being involved in real attraction to real people is correct. Haven't we all found someone attractive because they reminded us of someone else? And unless we happen to meet our partners at a nudist colony then probably something about the way they dressed (covered) chimed with an idea beyond that actual individual (they were, I dunno, 'a policeman' or 'a shop assistant' or something else in quote marks as well as being an actual policeman or shop assistant).

The controversy is over whether any specific theory is otm about the details of how this works and the extent to which it is a thing

sorry not vital yet, or particularly about cartoon pornography

Yeah well, you've made me rethink my use of 'vital' there Mordy and I suppose looking back, what I meant was more something like: 'It's worth analysing these sexual phenomena such as attraction to My Little Pony because they seem to have something to do with like ... how we live now, like the internet being everywhere and people being alienated irl and yet connected online, and are going to be increasingly apparent as the 21st century progresses, man'

Difficulty is the aforementioned ridiculousness of Bronies and also that when it comes to psychoanalysis I'm typing from the comfort of my armchair.

Treeship have you had intercourse with a real naked lady or man or pony whatever you're into and did you have a "mediator"

Please do not actually answer that query, just think about it when answering in the future

― have a nice blood (mh), Wednesday, February 12, 2014 10:58 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't think he meant 'mediate' in that sense, and nor is the sense in which he did mean it any sort of neologism

― cardamon, Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:00 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cardamon otm but to answer your question mh i have always made use of mediators, yes.

thread officially more pathetic than MLP porn

i vote for this to just be the new zizek thread.

Treeship and cardamon killing it ITT

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

through the eye of the needle here people

but still think there's mileage in asking if things generally held up as 'sexy', and acceptably so, in our culture are not closer to 'cartoons' than they or us would tend to admit, and you know, maybe these guys who find 'cartoons' 'sexy' are more of a mirror than a door

― cardamon, Wednesday, February 12, 2014 6:38 PM (Yesterday)

anyway, "brony" says more abt the internet's collective desire to ostracize than anything else

who do you wish to exclude? what are their values and hats? how sad are they, how not like you and in what way?

everyone itt forgetting that the word/subculture "brony" was created and made A Thing like a week after they all discovered it and no one gave a shit about them, they were the ones who thought they needed a special name because they enjoyed a tv show intended for little girls

acting like they found their collective inner brony strength after being marched into the gulags jfc it's just the same endless nerd victimization shit with a different name

I haven't done a study, but I get the impression that, outside a few diehards, brony mostly exists as a joke. i mean, i'm sure there are some desperately sad adult male MLP superfans out there somewhere, i suspect they're vastly outnumbered by people goofing on the meme (which has become quite tired, imo).

I'm still back on TK Maxx, I mean waht

This might be wrong but I always assumed that it's because lots of European countries (Russia, Italy, etc) don't have the letter J and the rest (Spain, Sweden, France, etc) all pronounce it differently. The UK is their European hub.

that's a much better explanation than mine

The TJ Hughes explanation is the one given on Wikipedia and fwiw TJ Hughes still exists - there is one near me in Glasgow. Weird place.

I haven't done a study, but I get the impression that, outside a few diehards, brony mostly exists as a joke. i mean, i'm sure there are some desperately sad adult male MLP superfans out there somewhere, i suspect they're vastly outnumbered by people goofing on the meme (which has become quite tired, imo).

you can walk in to the hot topic at your nearest mall right now and buy a brony t-shirt, lanyard, or hoodie

I usually wait a few months and buy them cheap at TK Maxxx

We sell MLP pop(!) at my store and I have sold a few to teenage boys

excelsior, 龜

there's a section for mlp and brony stuff in the central london forbidden planet now :-(

http://www.brony.com/

vaguely tempted to buy and use this just to fuck with people
http://www.brony.com/product/my-little-pony-rainbow-dash-friendship-cannon-black-bi-fold-wallet/

How would you fuck with people using a wallet?

A buddy and I once went to Louisville for the Derby and stayed with his cousin. Cousin had a roommate who eyed us carefully while we sat down after our trip and took a load off. Cousin took a phone call and the three of us left were sitting there in the living room when the roommate hops up and says he'll be right back. Buddy and I just look at each other.

Roommate comes back wearing a blue Kentucky Wildcats hat and has this rictus grin on his face. We're watching tv and the roommate finally says, "I bet this is really pissing you off, right?" Because we were from a different state, he was using his blue cap to fuck with us, you see.

Kentucky fans or bronies, now there'd be a hard choice to make. Duke/Bronies easy enough since they're about the same thing.

just make a show of pulling that wallet out after business meetings to cover the check

Sounds like some New Yorker cartoon: "Sorry, was running late this morning and grabbed my daughter's wallet by mistake."

anyway, "brony" says more abt the internet's collective desire to ostracize than anything else

― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Thursday, February 13, 2014 3:38 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who do you wish to exclude? what are their values and hats? how sad are they, how not like you and in what way?

― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Thursday, February 13, 2014 3:39 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

excellent posts imo

except that "brony" was coined by the fans themselves