I don't like My Little Pony, it's just not my style -- but I guess I can see why people might think it's cute/funny. Maybe part of it stems from the irony of being an older male audience, but I don't know, maybe just on a subconscious level.
I think the reason most people bash MLP and it's male audience is because they see material intended for pre-teen girls + older males on internet + anthropomorphic ponies = gay pedophile furries
I don't personally believe this (I do not wish to incur the wrath of the bronies), but I'm just saying this may be where much of the resistance stems from.
Sideroller wrote:I think the reason most people bash MLP and it's male audience is because they see material intended for pre-teen girls + older males on internet + anthropomorphic ponies = gay pedophile furries
Gay?
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Sideroller wrote:I think the reason most people bash MLP and it's male audience is because they see material intended for pre-teen girls + older males on internet + anthropomorphic ponies = gay pedophile furries
I don't personally believe this (I do not wish to incur the wrath of the bronies), but I'm just saying this may be where much of the resistance stems from.
Well, the fact that you brought it up (not to mention the way you worded it) implies that you agree with it on some level.
I'm willing to bet that a vast majority of the people who claim not to like the show haven't actually seen the new series. The ones who have seen one of the old series are understandably skeptical, but that's like saying you won't play Dragon Quest IX because DQI on the Famicom was too obtuse. But hey, if you have seen it, and still don't like it, then that's just fine; everyone has different tastes, and I'm not going to force it down your throat after that, but you can't make a valid generalization about something that you have no experience with.
gtmtnbiker wrote:
My youngest daughter (8) loves the show and is always watching the episodes on YouTube. The graphics are interesting but the show just doesn't appeal to me. I just find it strange for adults to be watching what is a kids' show.
C. S. Lewis wrote:Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
(Still haven't watched it btw. My girlfriend keeps bugging me to though)
gtmtnbiker wrote:
My youngest daughter (8) loves the show and is always watching the episodes on YouTube. The graphics are interesting but the show just doesn't appeal to me. I just find it strange for adults to be watching what is a kids' show.
C. S. Lewis wrote:Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
(Still haven't watched it btw. My girlfriend keeps bugging me to though)
All that proves is that C. S. Lewis wasn't a very good Christian:
1 Corinthians 13:11: When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
gtmtnbiker wrote:
My youngest daughter (8) loves the show and is always watching the episodes on YouTube. The graphics are interesting but the show just doesn't appeal to me. I just find it strange for adults to be watching what is a kids' show.
C. S. Lewis wrote:Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
(Still haven't watched it btw. My girlfriend keeps bugging me to though)
All that proves is that C. S. Lewis wasn't a very good Christian:
1 Corinthians 13:11: When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
You do realize that all those things listed in the verses are actions or thoughts, and not interests, right? This changes nothing. All it proves is that o.pwuaioc isn't a very good reader.
lisalover1 wrote:You do realize that all those things listed in the verses are actions or thoughts, and not interests, right? This changes nothing. All it proves is that o.pwuaioc isn't a very good reader.
Without the I'd have dared to say that you couldn't recognize a joke.
