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Sprite · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:16 pm Post subject:

http://randomcowboy.tumblr.com/post/15258952476/my-little-pony-feminism-is-magic
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Sprite · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:22 pm Post subject:

http://randomcowboy.tumblr.com/post/15258952476/my-little-pony-feminism-is-magic
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RaggaeTron · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:03 am Post subject:

What MLP:FiM has achieved is pretty amazing. I really need to watch that show.

MLP was the only girly show I watched as a child. Other than that it was just Spiderman, TMNT, Transformers, Biker Mice from Mars, and other cartoons targeted at boys from the eighties - dubbed and aired in the mid nighties.
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Sprite · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 3:51 pm Post subject:

What I find interesting about the main cast of My Little Pony is that they are stereotypes, but without being two-dimensional. All of them have mult-faceted personalities and often surprising hidden depths and strengths.
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KJ · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 4:52 am Post subject:

If I had a daughter, I'd be encouraging her to get her role models from something like MLP over Twilight.

Twilight encourages girls to be subservient and pine over boys. Way to set back the feminist movement.
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Heather Breckel · Slayer Joined: 15 Oct 2012 Posts: 95

One thing that impressed me about MLP, is this is the only show/movie/book/etc where I have ever considered one of the more girly characters a favorite. While Rainbow Dash stands as my absolute favorite in the show, Rarity is a close second. I typically gravitate more towards the more tomboyish females in shows because they tend to be given a bit more respect and are just generally written better. But Rarity as a character is given a lot of love and care and she's genuinely likeable and entertaining.

While she does act very girly, love fashion, and care a lot about her appearance, she isn't any weaker because of it. And if memory serves me right, she's the only pony that's shown any interest in dating, but that's not all she's about. For me, Rarity has proven that you can have a very girly character without her being bland and weak.

It's too bad that it took 28 years for this tomboy to find a girly character she likes, because a character being feminine should never be an excuse to be a lazy writer.

RaggaeTron · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 4:04 pm Post subject:

MLP just sounds better and better. One of the things that worried me while babysitting my cousins was the shows they were watching. The girly ones. It just seemed like the main plot was finding a pretty dress to put on for a date with a pretty boy. Sure they would save the world and all of that, but that seemed more like a subplot, to be quite frank.

You can tell by looking at these images that taking a BCs in engineering or economics is on their future plans.

I found this interesting article, but it's about Barbie and Bratz and it's kind of off topic, I guess, so I'm posing in it the girls and whatnot thread:
http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=12998&start=45
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Sprite · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 5:09 am Post subject:

Winx is a total rip-off of W*I*T*C*H which is way, way better IMHO.

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Cyberstrike · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 7:57 am Post subject:

RaggaeTron · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 11:54 am Post subject:

You recalled it correctly.

Piiiiiiiiiiiink

Sprite · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 11:58 am Post subject:

I still have all the issues that were ever released in Dutch. Was devastated when they cancelled it (the original Italian version kept on running for a while longer). Especially as it was one of the few good comics for girls out there. It had a lot of things going for it: good characters, adventure, fantasy... It was real nice and I still miss it.
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KJ · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 11:09 pm Post subject:

Sprite · Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:53 am Post subject:

Hey, you remember Anita Sarkeesian? The woman who became the focus of a hate campaign for daring to start a Kickstarter campain for making a video about women in video games? This is her speaking!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZAxwsg9J9Q

(I also recommend her "Feminist Frequency" series on YouTube for an illuminating perspective on women in varied media.)
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