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Anonymous
#129004
1 year ago
Not really pony-related, but I figured you guys should know about this if you haven't read her journal already...
StreakTheFox
#129011
1 year ago
If it's lauren faust, it's pony related
Derpie_Pie
#129015
1 year ago
She is not lauren faust! D:
She IS Lauren Faust!
*just messing around*
Anonymous
#129027
1 year ago
Why exactly was she fired?
Anonymous
#129029
1 year ago
Bronies are not your personal army, Lauren.
Anonymous
#129031
1 year ago
She didn't say Bronies were her personal army, it's just that this was kind of a big deal (to us girls, y'know those things that you don't really care about) and decided to share it.

Just read the article that she linked to
Anonymous
#129033
1 year ago
Also, not everything she writes is addressed to Bronies specifically. I've been watching her long before FiM so her watchers would still care =\
Thaluka
#129035
1 year ago
Not everything she puts on DA is related to FIM, and going forward most of it probably won't be, since she left the show.
Skipta
#129047
1 year ago
You're being silly, Anon3. First off we are not /b/ and secondly... it's her darn DA page that she's had for ages. She didn't come on here and post a "Call to Arms" picture or something.
Anonymous
#129049
1 year ago
Yeah. It's not always addressed to you guys. :/
Anonymous
#129050
1 year ago
I don't see why this needs to be here.
Anonymous
#129058
1 year ago
Sita Sings The Blues.

Look it up.

The creator of this movie is female and practically made it herself. Also, you can download the movie for free in computer and iso formats from her website.
Anonymous
#129067
1 year ago
Oh yeah, I heard about that :)
Anonymous
#129070
1 year ago
Still, if I had to make some kind of advice meme, (dunno what to use as a picture) it would go something like this:

"Top line: Tell MLP fans how women in the animation industry just got shoved a few generations back

Bottom line: Nobody cares because Bronies are dudes"

*facepalm*
Anonymous
#129095
1 year ago
I guess I'm downloading the Cars 2 camrip and/or screener.
Anonymous
#129258
1 year ago
Deleteme, not pony related.
Anonymous
#129269
1 year ago
After acknowledging that this kind of firing happens a lot in animation, the writer then proceeds to paint this as some kind of gender discrimination issue. Is there any reason whatsoever to think her gender had anything to do with the firing? If not, then there's been no setback whatsoever.
Anonymous
#129327
1 year ago
Anon13, it's not calling out Pixar for being sexist or anything. Rather it uses the anecdote to illustrate just how hard it is for women to break into important roles in film.

And this is really actually kind of a big deal. Most dudes don't see it, but the fact that film has been so thoroughly dominated by men from the beginning has led to a lot of misogynistic techniques at all levels of production becoming practically standard. No one questions male gaze cinematography in the populace. Story that focuses on male psychology is the go-to style.

So when a woman has a chance to be in a role where she can lead a team to focus on the female side of the film production process, and she is fired--that is, simply told, "don't come in tomorrow," and over "creative differences" at that, it comes as a palpable blow to women in the film industry who would like to see a change in the status quo.
Anonymous
#129564
1 year ago
And yet on the other hand, I don't ever want to see a director kept on board when they're not doing the best work, just because they're female (or black, or insert-group-here).

Now, that said:

Brenda Chapman is still going to be CO-director. She wasn't told "don't come in tomorrow", and "fired" is a strong term for what is essentially a reorg.

And this is hardly the first time Pixar has shuffled directors halfway into production. They did it with Cars, they did it with Ratatouille, they did it with Toy Story 2, and John Lasseter did the same thing as head of Disney production with both Bolt and Tangled. All of those movies turned out to be great.

So I guess what I'm getting at is, Pixar knows its business, and if they decide to change directors, there's a good reason for it. They've done it often enough in the past to prove that it's not an anti-woman thing; it's just how production goes sometimes.
TimmyTheWiz
#129595
1 year ago
As moviebob has been known to point out, the Disney Princess lines make billions annually. This is why Disney films are targeted there, it expands their market. Pixar, meanwhile, has been coming out with films that are, frankly, boy oriented. Regular Joe protagonists (single father, couple working schlubs, crotchety old man, etc) or very much boy associated topics like, say, cars, predominate in their films.

So I do have to wonder how well a film based on a Mother-daughter dynamic would mesh with the culture over there at Pixar?

Just a thought.
Anonymous
#130297
1 year ago
lauren faust is a feminist ninny with dumb opinions
Anonymous
#131079
1 year ago
^and you're a misogynist ninny who doesn't even have opinions worth reading
Anonymous
#131500
1 year ago
andnotasinglefuckwasgiventhatday.jpg
not pony related at all.
WORST_PONY_EVER
#142788
1 year ago
Lauren Faust commenting on her own personal DA account about an incident in which a woman was replaced and pointing out that it is difficult for women to achieve top roles in animation due to gross underrepresentation?

Clearly she's trying to rally fans of one of the many projects she's worked on to get riled up against Pixar Animation Studios.

Seriously, you guys?
Anonymous
#144666
1 year ago
>Implying that Bronies are the only ones who watch FiM

Ha! Bronies...
Anonymous
#170884
1 year ago
So what now? Put on Guy Fawkes' masks and go burn down Pixar?
Anonymous
#215422
1 year ago
@Anon3
You shut your dirty heathen mouth, infidel. For Lauren Faust, I would burn down Pixar Studios.

Granted, I would burn it down anyway, but it's the thought that counts, right?