
| Anonymous #516313 10 months ago |
I'm okay with that. |
| Anonymous #516314 10 months ago |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHj0dtSwxqQ |
| ClavisRozen #516317 10 months ago |
I don't know about that. I'm seeing some curves on those ponies. |
| beast0r #516321 10 months ago |
Well except for the lesbians. Maybe a gay dragon, possibly. Perhaps a gay clothes designer pony too. Other than that tho, yeah, straight as can be. |
| Anonymous #516325 10 months ago |
WHAT A TWIST. |
| Anonymous #516326 10 months ago |
Except a lot of them. |
| LucasGAN #516334 10 months ago |
b-but what about Lyra and Bon Bon?!? |
| Green_LED #516339 10 months ago |
*dramatic noise* |
| Vree #516344 10 months ago |
-curly haired Twilight smile- Prove it. |
| TheXIIILightning #516345 10 months ago |
Except Gummy.
Gummy has sex with anything that moves, because he's a Boss!! |
| gasmaskangel #516356 10 months ago |
It being highly unlikely that the issue will ever be addressed by the people writing the show, I believe that their sexuality is unknowable.
It's schroedinger's sexual orientation, they are at once gay and straight at the same time. Which is why I choose to believe that they are all secretly bisexual and have ludicrously deviant tastes. |
| nemryn #516357 10 months ago |
The number I've heard is that one in ten people is gay, roughly. If we apply that to the main 6, and assume that each of them has a random 10% chance to be gay, then there's a 47% chance that at least one of them is gay. |
| Zenith #516363 10 months ago |
every character is straight, except for all of them. |
| Anonymous #516381 10 months ago |
Lol, silly troll! That would be prejudice! Just like if the show had no "minority" ponies, but we have Zecora and the Asian-looking make up artist with Photo Finish for that! Excluding Gays in that minority would be politically incorrect. ;D
Besides; Lyra and Bonbon are subtly canon. Just look at the group comic con poster, they put them together on purpose. |
| marioandsonic #516386 10 months ago |
Now that's just crazy talk. |
| Anonymous #516388 10 months ago |
No better "friendship" than one with "benefits"...so for all you know, they could all be Bisexual. |
| c4tspajamas #516401 10 months ago |
I agree with everyone |
| Anonymous #516406 10 months ago |
I think they are all bi, plus what about Lyra and Bon Bon? They always together, so I think that they're friends with "benefits". |
| Anonymous #516408 10 months ago |
Yeah, and Steve Magnet is flamboyant for nothing, i'm sure. :/ |
| Shintaha #516410 10 months ago |
They're all a. Obviously. |
| Anonymous #516414 10 months ago |
Remember as pornography has taught us two women can't spend more than a couple of hours together before they start fuckin' each others brains out. 'Cause that makes sense right guys? RIGHT? |
| Anonymous #516417 10 months ago |
the canon answer is the bert and ernie mantra: they are children's cartoons; they have no sexuality.
of course, if we're looking at the setting as a setting apart from its presentation, you can draw whatever conclusions you want, within reason (and keeping in mind the stated authorial design principle that "girlishness" or "tomboyishness" has no bearing upon sexual orientation in either direction). |
| Anonymous #516418 10 months ago |
Females are incapable of forming platonic relationships! My fantasies are right and everyone else's is wrong! |
| Anonymous #516420 10 months ago |
@516414 to be fair, pornography also says that about a man and a woman.
or two men. or &c &c &c. |
| Anonymous #516428 10 months ago |
#516420 All I'm saying is that people are applying porno logic to these characters, they can't be really good friends, either their total strangers or sleeping together. |
| Anonymous #516430 10 months ago |
*they're |
| coolgame17 #516466 10 months ago |
I think we would need a pony that would say: "Ew, Heterosexist!" right now...
FYI: Heterosexism is an ideology (or idea if you prefer) that only heterosexuality exists in terms of sexuality, in view of the idea, the homosexuality (like all other sexualities) does not exist, or is it a myth it's just a fantasy. To give you an idea of what it is: the individual who says that men love women and that women love men and that the reverse does not exist, is an heterosexist. PS: an heterosexual is not heterosexist because of its sexuality, is above all a question of what the individual(note the word individual) thinks as idea. PS²: If you ask me how I know this because I love learning things. :P |
| Anonymous #516469 10 months ago |
lyra_tears_welling.svg
Though of the mane (I would love it if Lyra and Bonbon got a bit of the subtle always-together, accidental heart(s)-around treatment from the animators while still being just occasional background charas. Those two look good together!) |
| Anonymous #516499 10 months ago |
#516466 uhhhh I think don't think the creator of this picture is implying homosexual relationships are wrong I think he's saying that people are attaching traits to characters that probably don't exist. But I guess if you want to see it as prejudice your free to. |
| Cawnen #516515 10 months ago |
I find it very interesting that you can actually enter the TV show and talk to the ponies themselves and learn their own sexual orientations through casual conversation. Otherwise, how could you be so confidant that they are all straight? Oh wait, you can't jump into the show and talk to the ponies? Then why do you insist that they are all straight? Oh, you're a heterosexist? That makes sense. |
| Anonymous #516525 10 months ago |
#516515 So by your logic you talked to the ponies and all of them told you they were all gay? You see how this argument makes no sense right? 'Cause you can't prove it either way? That's kind of how that whole logic thing works. |
| Anonymous #516538 10 months ago |
I'm surprised people are taking it so personally that someone is suggesting maybe not every pony shown on screen is a homosexual, they're fictional characters they're whatever sexual orientation you want them to be.
tl;dr version: WHO GIVES A FUCK! |
| coolgame17 #516541 10 months ago |
@516499: In that case, why is this individual in question said: "Every single character on the show is straight"? The issue is not necessarily whether certain traits that the fans are attached to these characters are true or not, but DO YOU WANT this to be true or not? I understand your point of view Anonymous, but still that whoever did this primarily to talk about sexual orientation and not other traits than that. |
| Mattatatta #516553 10 months ago |
>Inb4 shitsto-
Bollocks! Too late... |
| Anonymous #516566 10 months ago |
Noooo... I heard rubbish theories in these headcanon pictures but this is the most outlandish.
I mean the fanfics told they're lesbians and when has fanfics ever get the canon material wrong? |
| Cawnen #516575 10 months ago |
@Anon525
@Anon538 'Tis my point. You can't assume that they are one or the other, because it assumes the opposite is untrue. Since this is a children's show, I doubt that any of them will get canon sexualities, so they'll forever be in this state of unsure unassumed sexuality. Oh, also I never asserted that any of them are gay. Just fact-checking for you. |
| Draconaes #516584 10 months ago |
Shut up you don't know that!
Doesn't know what he's talking about... |
| Irony #516600 10 months ago |
False. Dash is wonderboltsexual, Rarity is lithosexual, and Twilight is bibliosexual. |
| Anonymous #516603 10 months ago |
516499: saying "they're all straight and here are some reason" is perfectly fine. saying "they're all straight, no particular reason" is okay too, though not as good. but saying "they're all straight because we don't know otherwise" implies that straight is the "default" option, which implies bad things as other posters have mentioned.
516538: man nobody even said that. some of the main characters are pretty clearly straight (spike, probably rarity). |
| Anonymous #516622 10 months ago |
ITT: gheyfags get trolled by a headcanon post.
Besides, whatever they may start as, everypony is bi after three drinks. NO ONE DENIES THIS. |
| Anonymous #516701 10 months ago |
They must be pretty sexual frustrated then |
| Anonymous #516764 10 months ago |
Statistically, 4 out of 5 ponies must be lesbian, bisexual or unpaired. |
| Anonymous #516808 10 months ago |
True, expect for the Mane Six! |
| Anonymous #516949 10 months ago |
Anon 516417 is the most correct here. |
| Anonymous #516985 10 months ago |
Than can we ship Angel and Opalescence now? |
| Anonymous #517014 10 months ago |
Anonymous
#516764 or the males are polygamous, or have perform the sex without a relationships |
| Anonymous #517092 10 months ago |
habius corpus! |
| bamakid1272 #517253 10 months ago |
While I find all the crazy shippping fun to watch in the fandom, honestly, this is more than likely true. It's what I believe. The exceptions being Lyra and Bonbon, of course. |
| Anonymous #517367 10 months ago |
Lyra and BonBon aren't single, though, so they don't fall under the captioner's statement. Captioner says "Every _single_ character is straight," so we're still free to call lesbian, so long as they're in a relationship. |
| Anonymous #517409 10 months ago |
love me a good shit storm |
| AdrianBrony #517662 10 months ago |
just stopping in to mirror the probably stated notion that the character's sexuality are intentionally left undetermined and even faust refuses to confirm either way. That's not to say they are gay, just to say insisting they are straight is just as wrong as insisting they are gay or any other orientation save for rarity.
the only thing I have to say on the matter is when it comes to gay characters in kids shows, it should go this way: if there are no romantic relationships whatsoever, no place for gay character because romance is even out if there are confirmed married couples (there are in this show) that implies romance, and it would be just fine if they wished to have same sex romances, but not talk about sexuality unless there is talk about sexuality among straight couples. mainly, if a kids show were to get brave (and come on, it's 2011, it's gonna happen eventually) they would be best off discussing homoromanticism more than homosexuality... because they don't even discuss heterosexuality. only heteroromanticism. |
| AdrianBrony #517669 10 months ago |
#516417
the only difference between this and sesame street is there are married couples and romance. bert and ernie would have bee the ONLY romantic relationship on their show. in this show? there's the cakes, parents of the characters, rarity's (now defunct) attraction to the prince... people should probably mention that there needs to be a divide between sexuality and romance in terms of what is in a show. |
| Anonymous #517692 10 months ago |
... except for Lyra and Bonbon |
| Anonymous #517937 10 months ago |
Shipping or not, have any group of girls together and there's bound to be some homosexual tendencies coming up. Mainly because female homosexuality just isn't vilified quite the same as male homosexuality, plus the female gender can be way more open towards sexuality amongst eachother. |
| Anonymous #517941 10 months ago |
>Every single character on the show Doesn't say anything about characters who aren't on the show, like the ones from the toys. |
| Anonymous #518206 10 months ago |
Source of original picture? |
| Kooner #518217 10 months ago |
Anon 518206 - http://x-chan-.deviantart.com/art/Friendship-is-Magic-211545797 |
| Anonymous #518356 10 months ago |
Thanks Kooner. |
| MudPuppy #518634 10 months ago |
How bout this: all of them are NEITHER. Geeze....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexual And for all you shippers out there, you don't have to have ANY sexual orientation to fall in love. Sexual orientation means just that: that you are attracted to the (almost always physical) traits of one or both genders. It has NOTHING to do with love or romance. Wish people could get this through their heads. Sexual orientation, while it may help draw people who love each other together, is really quite a shallow thing when it comes down to it. They are cartoon horses people, CARTOON horses! Unless specifically stated, they are not sexually attracted to any gender, and so have NO orientation. Again, this does not mean that they can't be biromantic, homoromantic, etc. And yes, those are words. Look them up. Just sayin. This is something that always bugs me.... :P Rant over. |
| MudPuppy #518652 10 months ago |
@AdrianBrony Yep, agree completely.
"people should probably mention that there needs to be a divide between sexuality and romance in terms of what is in a show" Yes, and people should remember that this is still a show that's being watched by young children, so if they characters have any sexual orientation at all, it almost certainly won't be shown. Doesn't mean there can't be romance (there already has been a bit), which is way better IMO anyways. :) If Rainbow Dash suddenly fell in love with one of her friends (not that that's ever going to happen), it would not necessarily make her gay, but people would automatically assume it would of course. Same goes for any one of the Mane Cast (although of course Dash would be especially susceptible, due to stupid, overused stereotypes). Characters like Pinkie Pie really remind me of SpongeBob: calling them gay or straight is stupid, as they don't even think of that kinda stuff, and aren't really 'mature' enough to do so. |
| MysteryEzekude #518803 10 months ago |
"Not according to the Internet."
- Garcia F. Hotspur |
| Anonymous #518820 10 months ago |
Adrian: Gordon and Maria are married. Admittedly, they aren't puppets. But still.
Mudpuppy: I'd argue about the "aren't really mature enough to do so", since 1) they're adults in the context of their society and 2) it's author intent that "normal run-of-the-mill mammalian reproduction" exists in that world. That said, I'll reiterate what I said in 516417: as all of that is entirely irrelevant to the setting-as-shown, we are left to our own speculations as to the setting-as-it-may-exist. |
| mooch1 #519074 10 months ago |
what adrianbrony and mudpuppy said. This is a children's cartoon. they're not sexual, so they can't be "straight" or "gay". This is canon. (spike having a crush on rarity is just romance-- sex is just not part of the equation.)
but in fanon? you can do whatever the fuck you want. heteroromantic, homoromantic, heterosexual, homosexual and everything in between, ponies bucking the shit out of each other...don't see what's so hard to grasp about that. shipping doesn't always mean you believe that it's going to happen (or even that it SHOULD happen). what, is everyone new at this? |
| Anonymous #519090 10 months ago |
Mooch: actually, I get the feeling that this is a lot of people's first experience of being "in a fandom". |
| MudPuppy #519270 10 months ago |
@#518820 Let me reiterate what I said as well. I think that they are both 'mature' enough to have a sexual orientation, it's just that with the way they act, it's stupid to assign them one. Anyone who assumes that SpongeBob is thinking about sex at all, is kinda perverted I think. People can think whatever the heck they want, but with a character that's that sweet and innocent especially, it's just sort of messed up.
Pretty much the same with Pinkie Pie: although she isn't quite a naive as SpongeBob, she is sort of innocent in the same way. I'm not saying it's not possible for her, or any of the other characters to HAVE a sexual orientation, I'm just saying it's unlikely that they, especially Pinkie Pie, do have much, or any, orientation. I think that a character like Pinkie could easily develop a crush on somepony, but that wouldn't necessarily make her gay, straight, or anything, unless it was actually shown, or the creator confirmed that yes, she's straight/gay/bi or whatever. Usually when asked, the people who actually work on the show (as with the SpongeBob crew), think it's kind of crazy to even speculate, and usually the characters don't have any kind of sexual orientation, because they don't need to. Sometimes people need to step back and say, what the heck does it matter anyways?! lol @mooch1 I totally agree: people can do whatever they want in the fandom. They can give whatever character whatever the heck trait they want. Thing is, it seems like some people trick themselves into thinking their views are actually cannon within the universe of the show. Same with pretty much any fandom, but it can get annoying. I sort of wish people could be a bit more innocent/stop thinking about if the characters are thinking about sex, lol, but that's just wishful thinking. All I want is for people to understand that most characters don't even have a defined sexual orientation, so there's not much point arguing about it too much, and that even if they do show romantic interest in another character, it doesn't necessarily mean they are straight/gay/bi. It is frustrating when people assume a character is one orientation or another when they show the slightest romantic interest in another character. :P Anyways, not much I can do about what people assume, but oh well, not a huge deal anyways. I suppose (or hope) this picture was meant to be a joke, but who cares if it wasn't I guess, lol.... |
| AdrianBrony #519376 10 months ago |
at the same time I don't think they are all completely asexual mind you, MadPuppy. there are married couples with children. that alone implies there is sex happening.
I'm just saying that in terms of what is discussed on the show, romance is as far as it would ever go. |
| AdrianBrony #519383 10 months ago |
they can still be gay without discussing sexuality directly if they equate their relationship to say, the cakes. |
| MudPuppy #519561 10 months ago |
@AdrianBrony Lol, I'm not a MADpuppy. XD
But yep, agree with your comment again. Of course, technically, even a couple like the Cakes could be married and still be asexual. Doubt it, but it's certainly possible, although I don't think it matters either way. The point here is that LOVE is the important thing, not physical/sexual attraction. People are *supposed* to get married cause they love each other, not because they are physically/sexually attracted to each other, right? Sex is happening I suppose, sure, but that still doesn't technically mean any of the characters have any orientation (although again, I think you can safely assume the ponies parents, etc, do to some extent, if you want to think that far). I'm nitpicking now, I know, lol. But these are ANIMATED characters we're talking about here, so...yeah. :P Seems rediculous to think about it at all, but people seem to insist on assigning a sexual orientation to EVERYTHING. Next I suppose Tom the rock will be pronounced bisexual by the fandom... Also, as you pointed out, any orientation of any character would possibly have, as specified by the creator, wouldn't even be shown, except maybe very subtly. To quote your other comment: "mainly, if a kids show were to get brave (and come on, it's 2011, it's gonna happen eventually) they would be best off discussing homoromanticism more than homosexuality... because they don't even discuss heterosexuality. only heteroromanticism." YES. That is something I would love to see touched upon in a cartoon, even if it was done very subtly. :) Who cares what gender two people who are in love are: what matters is just that - love. Not sex. Anyways, not sure why I got caught up in this whole discussion in the first place, as I have a feeling the uploader put up the picture just to start a big s**tstorm, lol. It is something that bothers me, because many people just don't seem to understand the concept that sexual orientation does NOT equal love, or even who you love. And that assigning sexual orientations to animated characters randomly is kind of ridiculous. XD I think I'll just sit back and watch now....besides, I think your first comment said it all best Adrian. ;) |
| Anonymous #519892 10 months ago |
*sees lengthy posts* *bursts out laughing* We're all having these massive arguments over the supposed (and I say the majority is false) sexual orientations of a bunch of cartoon ponies(except for Dashie)?!?!?! *laughs so hard a spontaneous combustion occurs* |
| MudPuppy #520305 9 months ago |
@#519892 XD XD XD XD Well I'm glad someone is getting a good laugh about it all! *looks back at posts, then also spontaneously combusts from massive laugh attack* |
| d715 #520341 9 months ago |
The show is never going to bring it up, the creators have said it doesn't matter who cares.
for shipping as long as its well writen I'm good |
| Anonymous #521090 9 months ago |
...holy crumpits all I see is massive walls of text.You can make a textbook out of all of these words. |
| Jack_Hare #521198 9 months ago |
The weird part? The really weird part?
It's a wall of text discussing the sexuality of cartoon ponies that HASN'T become a shitstorm or a flamewar. People have expressed differing viewpoints, contradicted each other...but nobody's calling names, making futile death threats or arguing in all caps. About the worst that's come up is some mild sarcasm, and the ones who've stuck in the thread longest are *discussing* rather than *fighting*. Friendship is Magic for the win, folks. :D |
| Anonymous #521691 9 months ago |
Indeed, Mr. Hare. Indeed. |
| Anonymous #523752 9 months ago |
FUCK YOU ALL AND DIE |
| scrounge #532740 9 months ago |
...I'm less worried about the sexual orientations than I am about where those balloons might have come from and whether they're about to start laughing. |
| Anonymous #759536 7 months ago |
According to my headcanon, every single pony is gay/lesbian. Dammit. |