Adults and ponies - how come? :)

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oh so you only want to know about bronies?
why doesnt anyone care about adult WOMEN who like MLP?
Just sayin' why isnt the adult demographic that is scrutinised?
Why generalise the 'oddness' only to males?
seems a bit hypocritical really.

Because the adult women don't tend to be the people who invade and infringe on the safe-space this show intended to be for little girls. I have a serious problem with the bronies (who do tend to be adult males) who have appropriated the characters and messages for their own use. These adult men tend to be the ones who make the horrible rape jokes with MLP characters ("Princess Molestia") and fill the MLP tags on the internet with violence and/or porn (the infamously violent "Cupcakes" story came up for me when I was Googling "Pinkie Pie" for a 4 year old girl I was babysitting). A loud portion of bronies push little girls out of the safe space MLP was supposed to be for them.

The problem isn't that adults like MLP. I don't find fault with adult fans of children franchises in general, and I love it when a TV show caters to both parents and children. The problem is that a vocal portion of the MLP fanbase, including the bronies I have met in person, use public fan channels to bully little girls out of their "territory." I find that the issue many people, including myself, have with bronies has less to do with boys liking "girly" things, and more about them twisting this particular girly thing into something self-serving and hateful.

As an aside, if anyone is interested in an insider's perspective on creating a cartoon for little girls, I highly recommend reading Lauren Faust's article on her intent in creating MLP FIM: http://msmagazine.com/blog/2010/12/24/my...-rebuttal/