
| HeinousActsZX #478294 10 months ago |
I mean, look at them. Why can't this be canon, but with ponies? How is this offensive? |
| Anonymous #478432 10 months ago |
^
Lauren Faust herself said that "ponies have no sexuality". That would mean no delving this deeply into their relationships. For the best, really. We still have this in our minds, and there's no official room for any perversion of its cuteness. |
| Anonymous #478439 10 months ago |
I'd like a citation for that.
I mean, given that it's irrelevant to the World As Presented, it's not a surprise to me that that would be the statement (seems like the same kind of thing as the Bert And Ernie Are Puppets pronouncement). But I'm a bit surprised the statement was made at all. |
| Kiana #478471 10 months ago |
^ Uh, seeing as how Rarity very clearly has an interest in the prince (before finding out what he's really like), we know SHE has some semblance of sexuality.
I just thought the idea was more "We don't delve into their relationships too much" and that was it. And the reason there aren't any lesbian ponies is because of Moral Guardians(tm) who still think there's something WRONG with it. No, no, I'M not bitter. Why EVER would you think THAT? *eye twitch* |
| Anonymous #478654 10 months ago |
here's a hint:Because sexuality of any sort doesn't belong in a show made for eight year old girls? |
| Kiana #478800 10 months ago |
^ There are tons of shows that have girls with crushes on guys. These shows are aimed at little girls. Yet there are no shows that even hint at it being okay for girls to like other girls, or boys to like other boys.
So the kids grow up thinking that it's not normal... My step mother is one such 'moral guardian.' She has never expressed any negative feelings for, say, shows that teach little girls that they should wear dresses, sew, cook and get married immediately out of highschool. Yet she spazzes out at the slightest HINT of... just about everything else. Maybe I'm just over compensating on my argument because I'm stuck dealing with THAT kind of attitude all the time, but the mere mention of the moral guardian debate sends me into rant mode. |
| Plazmamuffins #481338 10 months ago |
Can't disagree with Kiana, She has an argument I myself would argue if I wasn't a pedant, a realist and an all-round bitchy person and feel the need to point out that while shows with homosexual characters are green-lighted often, marketing them towards children..really, really doesn't make the Airing networks happy, the negative backwash is enough to get a show cancelled.
Closest thing I can remember is Sugar rush, A channel four drama about several 15[?] year old girls exploits, pretty heavy with the drinking, kissing, swearing and over all drama for anyone under that age. media seems stuck in a bit of a rut, where lesbians and gay men, especially gay men are portrayed as either Comic relief or pointless drama. Quite like to see it out of that Rut, but my little pony is hardly the medium for that to begin. |