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Why does there have to be a word for that, and why does it have to be so, well, lame?
People who want to know if I like Breaking Bad never ask me if I'm a Bro-king Bad.
First of all, I'm not anyone's bro; I'm a girl. Does it say something about our society that the accepted gender-neutral term for an adult fan of My Little Pony, of all things, treats male as a sort of default?
To me it's kind of a crutch for guys who are embarrassed admitting to the world that they love something girly, for fear of ridicule, and sticking "bro" in there gives them...a sort of handhold, down into the girliness abyss.
To this I say, welcome to the sisterhood, boys. Take off the training wheels and just admit everybody's feminine sometimes.
But, yeah, I'm a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fan. Of course. La la la, ponieeeeeeees <3 <3 <3 <3
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I'd love to say that we've made headway as a society if we can completely dash gender-based categorization from the books entirely, but it is simply not going to happen in my lifetime. In fact, it may never happen Males are males, females are females, and dogs like to eat everything that anyone else wants to eat and some things that no one would even consider eating, even if they were going to die from starvation. I believe true progress will be made when people learn to accept that fact (not the one about the dog), and move on from getting hung up on politically correct titles for everything. Men and women's brains are structured differently, and that is why there is a difference at all. Human physiology is not going to change so dramatically that all of a sudden men see themselves as no longer needing to prove that they are still within societal norms for their maleness, just as women are never going to stop pushing for just that because they have a little something called "empathy" that allows them to mentally walk in someone else' shoes in a limited fashion. It's just a fact.
If we were going to argue this further, I'd say that women need to stop trying to change the way men think and act, and men need to be more aware of how women actually think. But that's asking a little much, I believe.
I could be wrong about the physiology thing. With the way 1st world society is becoming, there's a considerable chance that since people no longer have to hunt and kill for food for the most part, which was typically a male job in the distant past, in some areas of the world there may actually come a time when male and female brains are structurally more similar than before, creating a sort of "gender neutral" thinking.
But other than that, I think things are the way they are because that's just how it is, and there's nothing wrong with it.
I may have actually taken this all a little too far, and my apologies for doing just that. I do so love to think too much.
PS: Yay ponies!
That, or "pegasister" seems to sound even... more lame?
As best as I can tell, people made up that name because it seemed like a big deal that the show was attracting such a huge number of male fans. There's a female version, "pegasister", but "brony" became so ubiquitous that people just use it for everyone.
What gives you the leave to start tossing around un-justified insults? Would not the smart thing to do have been write out a critical-response to my claim?
Now to repeat and clarify myself. I call myself and others Bronies simply because it's easier to say than "a fan of 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'". If it makes you feel better, though, I can identify myself as a "Pony fan", or some such phrase? Or is that still too masculine for you?
Information spreads like a virus, infecting one person, then moving on to others he associates with.
This means information will propagate exponentially.
If few people like the idea, then the idea will spread, and die off before going very far (guy tells friends, maybe one or two friends tell friends, and none of them pass it on).
But if an idea is simple, quick, clever, neat, whatever, if it's "sticky", so to speak, like it sticks (the name stuck), then it'll pass on far more effectively, and will spread like wildfire.
So I don't think it's any real reflection of society or anything, I just think the term "Brony" is something that many people find "sticky", like a soundbite, just a little clever thing.
And there is a female term, pegasister
And personally, I thought it was kind of cool to learn that there were enough male fans of MLP:FiM to warrant a term for it, and a non-derogatory one at that. Sure, some people try to use it as such, but since I tend not to have to deal with these people I pay it no mind.
I guess what it all comes down to is; The words people use aren't as important as the intent with which they use them, and whatever that intent may be speaks far more of the address-er than the address-ee.