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

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

And the outsider hat was proudly paraded around by those fans.

Lots of fans are just fans of course. No one's business but their own. But many of the more vocal bronies _want_ to be seen as people of different, rebel ideals just because they chose to band around this cartoon.

Doesn't help that many of these also mix in a little right wing libertarianism in their rants. I think you can forgive having a reaction to that.

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/158/e/4/rainbow_dash_salutes_ron_paul_by_blamethe1st-d3ib0xt.png

Bronies are associated with libertarianism?

i'm all for ppl letting their freak flag fly but gleeful co-opting of something meant for girls is tired patriarchal bullshit

i need to think this thru but i feel like my contempt for bronies is indistinguishable from my feminism

there is so much about the flavor of bronyism I like to mock that reminds me of the "gutterpunk" kids in Harvard Square who would lounge around in nearly-identical ripped denim/leather and clothespin earrings and nearly-identical mowhawks in similar shades of blue, green and pink who would beg for change during the day and sneer at all of the conformists around them, completely oblivious to the fact that they were creating their own conformity

i don't think that says very much about yr feminism xp

it's not my experience that entertainment for females, esp for young girls, is regularly 'co-opted' by men - but rather stigmatized + discounted

ok then its fresh and new patriarchal bullshit

I pretty much agree with gr8080 with an important caveat:

i'm all for ppl letting their freak flag fly but gleeful co-opting of something meant for girls so that you can fuck it is tired patriarchal bullshit

the world needs fewer self-disappearing unproductive men. escape into a subculture built around a hasbro product doesn't read to me as difference or multiplicity of desire or subversion of established roles, it reads like plain cowardice.

i did read a defense of the show once (linked here maybe?) along the line that the show is an extended demonstration of/meditation on the value of friendship, which is always an undervalued and under-explained quality. and just as hard as romance, in a way, and just as important to life, especially to kids obviously

but discussion tends to devolve down to guys who what to fuck something so

"who what to fuck something so" = the hot new deathgrips LP

brave productive men spending their time on ilx

feel like there could be some productive bronies out there. Some of these dudes might just be Drew Struzan types.

we're all bringing content here soref, no need to feel implicated

sorry, that was obnoxious of me, I am by pretty much any metric a self-disappearing unproductive man, and my ego was a little wounded.

I don't want to have sex with cartoon ponies though, so I guess it could be worse.

i need to think this thru but i feel like my contempt for bronies is indistinguishable from my feminism

― goole, Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:06 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

so do all bronies want to fuck the ponies? or is that just a small contingent of mostly older dudes who are giving the rest of them a bad name? does *anyone* want to fuck the ponies or is this just a meme? what information is there on the politics of bronies as a group? is it fair to lump them in with the reddit atheist/libertarian/fedora/mountain dew contingent? are questions of fairness beside the point because the idea of bronies is mostly just a joke and they don't really exist as a meaningful category?

leave no stone unturned, treeship

i think we need to establish who and what we are in fact talking about and what the stakes are before we start calling antipathy toward bronies a feminist stance. as far as i can tell they exist mostly as an amalgamation of a bunch of things people don't like about people who are perceived to spend time in certain corners of the internet. so yeah, like contenderizer said, as a site of projection for all the things we want to distance ourselves from. in this sense -- insofar as these people exist, for ilx, as grotesque -- i feel bad for them. i don't know any of these people individually though; probably most of them have rich, fulfilling lives and this is a just a stupid, fleeting hobby for them.

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my impression is that most bronies are adolescent boys?

'mountain dew contingent'?

The resulting show, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, was well received by parents, but found another unexpected target audience through the Internet photo-board, 4chan in adult males from 13 to 35 years old. Quickly expanding through the Internet, the fandom came to use the term "brony" (a portmanteau of "bro" and "pony") to describe themselves.

adult males from 13

http://hollowverse.zippykid.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/jerry-sandusky-640x360.jpg

mountain dew the drink of choice at the best lan parties iirc

4chan...adult -the bigger oxymoron there

treesh i know you have an hour of free time, please watch this and post your thoughts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fvPfU5DqZc

feel like you should at least read the wikipedia entry before posting your ~brony analysis~ itt

one can still be down w/ people flying their freak flag and STILL make fun of them for doing so.

i'm not one for tough guy/drill sergeant rhetoric, but this is an exception -- some people just need to grow a pair.

I'd guess that a smaller percentage of bronies needs to "grow a pair" than many other subcultures

just because "growing a pair" may not really be necessary for their chosen occupation and lifestyle

Treeship are you putting together a proposal for a postgrad thesis?

i was gonna say, is this a seminar about bronies? as i have mentioned, there was a guy in my class who declared that he was a brony -- no one knew what he was talking about except for me, so the topic was kinda DOA but clearly it's not hard for me to imagine that there are real people who identify in this way.

it's pretty condescending to feel "sorry" or embarrassed for them imo.

^^^ it's essentially being the asshole dads from the documentary

just all chin-strokingly

i did read a defense of the show once (linked here maybe?) along the line that the show is an extended demonstration of/meditation on the value of friendship, which is always an undervalued and under-explained quality. and just as hard as romance, in a way, and just as important to life, especially to kids obviously

this is the actual text, and does not require any deep-thinkpiece internet analysis to reveal it. it's in the TITLE OF THE SHOW ffs, if ppl can't be bothered watching a whole, single episode.

Duke/Bronies easy enough since they're about the same thing.

fp'd u

xp loooool "This show called 'Friendship is Magic,' what secrets does it hold under the surface?'"