Have the standards of manhood today gone to the dogs?

Stop. Talking.

Seriously.

MLP is for pussies

Let’s let the woman speak for herself on the (almost–one day away) 6th anniversary of this post. Note the wide variety of commenters in the nearly 700 comments over that period, and how little they fit your straw characterization. (BTW, how do you feel about the manliness of Billy Bob Thornton?)

(As for why I’m concentrating on this aspect of your post, mostly it is because it is fun derailing your screed.)

Have you always lied about the claims of others, or is this something you’re just getting into? So far you’ve been doing it a lot. Perhaps you aren’t putting any effort into reading comprehension, or perhaps you’re just an immature, dishonest jackass.

Never seen it but I’ll accept your expert opinion.

Another nine commandment Christian?

Feeling a little tug of attraction?

Please. This kid can’t get a tug without sneaking up on his own hand.

N.B. HunkY dorY.

That is all (that I suspect the OP is capable of understanding, and even that might be giving him more credit than he merits).

For someone who claims to not really care about, you sure have a lot of things to say about MLP. Like, honestly, you’re coming across as more obsessed with it than bronies are.

No, no, no, no! “Chaos Theory” woo-woo went out with bell bottoms. In this day and age, any proper package of crackpot yammerings requires a mention of Quantum Mechanics as the filler step between the “Steal Underwear” and “Profit!” steps.

You didn’t play football in high school did you?

No I just find it funny how many people on the internet apparently get upset over calling a kid’s show a kid show when even the creator of the show intended it to be just that.

Guess some people are so insecure in their manhood that they can’t admit to just enjoying a quirky kid’s cartoon, and feel the need to pretend it’s really some deep existentialist work of art to be analyzed which the creator never intended, lol

If this is what the average American male is devolving into, a guy who’ll throw a tempter tantrum when you suggest that a show about cartoon ponies was probably written with kids in mind rather than adults - then it backs up the sarcastic points I made in the thread.

Dude.

Dude.

They’re cartoon horses.

Nobody’s going to jerk off to that without good reason.

Now, I’m one of the (and I must stress this) minority of MLP fans who actually enjoys the erotica put out by the fan community. And I can tell you right now, just like with any rule 34, if the character isn’t interesting, the porn sucks. If you don’t want to know more about the characters or the world they live in, you might as well watch two stick figures jerk each other off. First comes the love of the original property and interest in the characters, then comes the porn. This is why there’s a huge amount of Overwatch porn, but virtually no porn of Call of Duty. Because nobody cares about the nameless, faceless dorks in Call of Duty. But they would like to get to know Widowmaker a little better. Good characters -> large Rule 34 community. It’s really that simple.

Well, what is? Breaking Bad was a fucking masterpiece, one of those rare shows where almost every single thing clicked, an A+ accomplishment. MLP is not in the same league. It’s a solid B- that occasionally rises to the level of a B+, and for the last few seasons has dipped considerably.

But if you think children’s cartoons have “low standards”, then you really haven’t been paying attention recently. People have been raising the bar. Adventure Time is quirky slice of life mixed with existential horror and a solid dose of LSD, in a way that is absolutely mind-blowing. The Amazing World Of Gumball took what was good about the old Spongebob, dressed it up nice and pretty, added a whirl of self-awareness, and came out with one of the best comedies on TV. Avatar: The Last Airbender is actually about as good as Breaking Bad. I say with no hesitation and no regrets; that show had one bad episode and just about everything else involved was incredibly tight.

If you’re not actually into cartoons, then yeah, you can run into crap. No question. But if you want to say that the cartoons that will actually be worth talking about a few years from now, the modern “looney toons”, have a “low bar”… No. They don’t.

No. It’s because it’s a lovely, heartwarming show. Yeesh, dude, get a clue.

Well shoot, I’d better stop you from breathing! Your breathing could cause a hurricane!

What kind of shitty insane troll logic is this?

You’re the only one who did.

Lemme tell ya something. You know what my favorite episode of “My Little Pony” is? “The Best Night Ever”. An episode about our main characters going to a party they’ve been looking forward to, finding out it’s not what they expected, and having a lousy time. If anyone wants to tell you there’s some deep existential message in that, they’re just wrong. But that’s not why I like it. I like it because it has a simple, heartwarming message that we don’t get enough of, because it’s a study of how these well-written characters who I care about act when pushed to limits (socially), and it’s just really funny. There’s no deep meaning there. It’s just a well-written character drama.

Learn something about what you’re slagging off, will ya? Yeesh. A large part of the draw of My Little Pony is not that it has anything important or special or revolutionary to say, but that it’s got great characters and solid writing, in a wrapping that is fundamentally optimistic and happy.

Nope. Didn’t need to.

Admitting to enjoying a quirky kid’s cartoon is exactly what BPC did. Your reply:

So, give it a rest with your revisionist bullshit.

The last time I ate a hostess trinkie her husband got pissed and made me leave the party.

[sub]Yes, that’s all I got out of this entire stupid thread[/sub]

Point taken. I’ll restate.

Because it’s late and I have no idea how an entirely made up word that I’ve never seen in the wild is properly singularized?

I’m pretty sure that this is the case. I’ve always seen it pluralized that i can recall. Embarrassing either way. I usually try to pay attention to what I write and take spelling a bit more seriously than I did when writing that post. That’s why I assumed that the poster I was responding to was talking about the spelling rather than that he was unfamiliar with the term.

“Bronies” and people who watch MLP are not the same thing. “Bronies” are a specific internet ‘subculture’ that originated on 4chan.

Not everyone who’s watched the show is necessarily a “Brony”.

And I won’t speak for everyone, but the one guy I met on a film and TV forum who identified as a “Brony” was also a fan of “loli” anime porn, and was trying to convince others that there’s nothing abnormal about adult men wanting to spank it to cartoon pictures of toddler-age girls, and even tried to convince us that this was something that Charles Dickens would have approved of… or something creepy like that.

Needless to say he was basically ‘excommunicated’ by the members of that website, I think he slithered off back to some Nambla-ish forum after he basically became persona non grata.

Are you aware that Playboy said that they will no longer publish nude pictorials? Anyone who reads it will be doing it for the articles