If You Don't Want To Be Bullied, Leave Your MLP Bag At Home

[azzaman333]

Oh man, I feel like I missed something important here.

You missed the whole MLP discussion being restricted to A&E because of excessive trolling?

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm... Bullying is a horrible issue and it has existed in a major form for many decades now in schools.

But considering what people have been bullied for, i think MLP is one of the easiest targets. I mean people bullied others for just about anything. I am sure if they had pink ponies on their school bags they would serve as an even easier excuse to be nasty- as most tend to be in that age, sadly.

(personally i don't see why MLP is popular with some males. The old MLP series, in the late 80s, was almost entirely watched by girls, and the toys were for girls as well).

 

[caketastydelish]

So? He's an outlier.

Give it 10 years and he'll be on reddit complaining about how women have too much rights

You're hilarious.

edit: 9 year old boy that likes MLP= misogynist. I'm glad the vast majority of feminist don't have your logic, useless, you give them a horrible name.

second edit: you keep accusing this boy of being anti-woman, and yes, if he really is he deserves the bullying, but I fail to see the proof. Nothing in the article mentioned his standing with womanhood, you just hate MLP fans.

 

[caketastydelish]

Reality is, if it wasn't the MLP bag he'd be picked on for something else. Expecting logic from bullies is fruitless and they always single someone out.

That's not me defending or excusing it. Even when i abandoned Pokemon, they still found reasons, throughout school and highschool.

There's a difference between getting bullied because you have ginger hair, different skin colour, different religious beliefs, have a disability etc and because you play Pokemon or yugioh or you like anime or are an open brony.

Jesus i thought that be obvious but apparently not

Not sure what you're trying to say with this, though. boys that like MLP= woman haters? What about the women that like MLP? Do they hate themselves? If not, why such a weird double standard for someone that supposedly is for equality?

 

[Borachio]

If you want to be a professional wrestler (or some other thing requiring all over body strength and independence of spirit) take your MLP Bag to school.

 

[Crezth]

Sure being anti-brony is uncool, but being a brony isn't the height of coolness either tbh.

Same with anime tho

Your lack of empathy is disappointing.

 

[NovaKart]

I don't understand the brony thing, are they being ironic or think its subversive or something? I can understand a little boy liking it but not a grown man or a grown woman.

 

[Farm Boy]

The bullies were the kids wearing the flag for the expressed purpose of making the other kids feel excluded. Fighting back, even fighting back too much, is not bullying.

I tenor that it is quite possible to tolerate pride in multiple things, different things, simultaneously. Even if Whitey McWhiteson was wearing a (wrong)flag in the (right)country on the (wrong)day to be an ass, administration reacting as it did fed the negativity and the trolling. It fed the wrong, rather than leaning on that which is good. Sort of like rewarding sexist and cruel behavior from 9 year olds by banning a lunchbox.

I don't understand the brony thing, are they being ironic or think its subversive or something? I can understand a little boy liking it but not a grown man or a grown woman.

I rather like that show. There's bright colors, the dialogue isn't braindead, there's no violence or sexuality, and the message is unrelentingly positive and saccharin sweet while being a little bit funny. It's a nice change of pace from the programming I'm supposed to like. I absolutely hate Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Dexter, etc etc etc.

 

[Quackers]

How can you hate GOT? I'm outraged.

I never got into Breaking Bad, nor the Wire. Some of them I just don't get.

 

[Farm Boy]

I hate close enough to every single character. I hate close enough to every single plot development. The only decent spot that ever comes up is that occasionally it starts to resemble porn for a few precious seconds, but even that is generally filthy. To the extent that I've been told they are true to the books, then I hate the books too.

It's cool. You can like the tripe if you want. I like MLP for God's sake.

 

[AdamCrock]

I think that mom of this kid ought to sue the lunchbox producer for not puting a warning sing on the box like : "Warning ! Male using this lunchbox might be bullied at school." and win a million bucks in the process Next step should be selling the story to Oprah and gain some more cash Oprah than should bring the kid to the show and bang ! Mom get 1 000 000 $ from the lunchbox company + some bonus cash from Oprah and the kid is instantly popular ( with all the money mommy's making he can now have MLP themed room with MLP everything in it + a private teacher that will even dress as his favourite Pony haha ) and everybody's happy

 

[H4run]

It is so hard to dealt with bully in school, I know there is one boy in highschool that my senior bully so much (during my one gender highschool) and he went up and told his parents what happen, and parents told the teacher, and the teachers told the senior and warn them. Later on they came back again to this boy, and torture him so badly include lit him with a cigarette. Our school was pretty horrible the last time I heard there is one boy been stabbed to death because of fighting with local mafia. However that just to point how the bullying works, which "you told your parents and teachers, you going to suffer worst because you are a sissy" horrible indeed I hate bullying to the bone.

The only possible things that the teacher can do is to order all the bullies to wear the Ponny bag also for a week, so they cannot actually bully the boy as they themselves are like, and make a new rule whoever bully the kid carrying MLP bag will get punish by carrying MLP bag themselves. If the teacher just told the bullies and punish them to stand up outside the principal office, the next time this boys will get a hardcore bully for sure, not only by them but also by other who know that he report this to the parents.

Bullying is a dilema. The more you put your hand into it, the more mess happen. Giving a harsh punishment (not just oral) like scorsing and drop out might decrease the problem, but if the teacher just gave the bully the standard "not doing the homework punishment" it will only suffered the boy even more. If the school cannot be harsh to the bully, it is better if the boy just adapt, or the parents could sign him up to boxing class or something so he can take care of himself.

 

[Kyriakos]

I don't understand the brony thing, are they being ironic or think its subversive or something? I can understand a little boy liking it but not a grown man or a grown woman.

I don't get the appeal either. Farm Boy mentioned the characteristics (but those were mostly there in the 80s MLP series too, and that- as mentioned- did not have much of an appeal to boys).

I had watched some episodes of MLP (80s) while in elementary school. That show was about friendship and platonic love and so on, but also about the usual 80s cartoon distinction of good vs evil (not sure if the new MLP has that).

That said, another old cartoon with some common aspects (but not all) was a bit popular, and i liked it too. The Raccoons. But it had very clear genders, despite all the beings having animal forms. Also there was no majority of "good" beings belonging to one species (eg the ponies). Lastly, it did not have entirely "pure good" characters either (nor entirely pure evil ones).

The Moomins was another similar show, and before it there was the very old show Babar (which was also "saccharine").

For reference:

Moonins:

The Raccoons:

Babar:

 

[PhroX]

I don't understand the brony thing, are they being ironic or think its subversive or something? I can understand a little boy liking it but not a grown man or a grown woman.

It's a surpising decent show actually, and I can certainly understand why people (adults inculded) like it. What I can't understand are bronies who typically go way way beyond just liking the show to the point of obsessing over it.

 

[Kyriakos]

Hmmm... Just run a google search for MLP..

Current series of MLP:

Late 80s (original) series of MLP:

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Uh....

The current MLP looks rather scary and..well.. unhealthy. The old one was for elementary school children. This seems to be for people with other issues and not for pre-puberty at all.

 

[Farm Boy]

The current MLP looks rather scary and..well.. unhealthy. The old one was for elementary school children. This seems to be for people with other issues and not for pre-puberty at all.

While I'm aware of rule 34 being pretty true. I'd hazard to guess that a 9 year-old is probably pre-pubescent. And while I most certainly am not pre-pubescent, I see no particular appeal along those lines to animated anthropomorphized horses of indeterminate representational age.

 

[Kyriakos]

While I'm aware of rule 34 being pretty true. I'd hazard to guess that a 9 year-old is probably pre-pubescent. And while I most certainly am not pre-pubescent, I see no particular appeal along those lines to animated anthropomorphized horses of indeterminate representational age.

I agree, however i did not mean some interest on their forms. I mostly was thinking of their expressions which are not really a highlight of pre-puberty attitudes, but (if anything) of the early stages of puberty where most people are pretty much lost and messed up and have this sort of expressions.

Which is why i labelled it as scary and unhealthy, cause in that light it could echoe a period that one is better passing as soon as possible, not keeping perpetual imagery of it.

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Also, is it from the same studio/people who made this?

(pic taken out now due to god knows what linkrights issue)

Cause the above was a rather nasty piece of decadence from the early 2000s.

 

[Farm Boy]

I agree, however i did not mean some interest on their forms. I mostly was thinking of their expressions which are not really a highlight of pre-puberty attitudes, but (if anything) of the early stages of puberty where most people are pretty much lost and messed up and have this sort of expressions.

Which is why i labelled it as scary and unhealthy, cause in that light it could echoe a period that one is better passing as soon as possible, not keeping perpetual imagery of it.

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Also, is it from the same studio/people who made this?

Cause the above was a rather nasty piece of decadence from the early 2000s.

Eh, if I have to think about it the show probably casts the ponies as "college" age. But actually writes them as tweens. Which would make sense, since grade schoolish age kids might look up to tweens as being older, plus "coming-of-age" can very well be a "figuring out how you want to treat people during your life" sort of thing. At which point I appreciate the positive message even if it's directed at a somewhat older demographic than is Sesame Street.

Image isn't showing up for me. From what I remember Powerpuff girls wasn't as good, but was still clean. The url that isn't displaying for me has "fanpop" in it. What is it? Bear in mind the Powerpuff girls were somewhat popular in the University-aged demographic as well.

 

[Kyriakos]

Don't know the site, just googled Powerpuff girls and used a pic.. Seems many sites now don't allow linking to their pics.

So here is the wiki image for that show:

Well, its design looks familiar to the pics i saw of the current MLP show (i mean the drawing design).

The PPG was some sort of parody of other cartoons, with impossibly dumb villains and absurd powers for the strange protagonists. It also was a bit surreal in the plots, and i recall one episode where a monkey arch-enemy tried to win by creating other mastermind monkeys, using zoo apes. The result was that he created a crew of freaks, and all of them wanted to be the leader

(but, otherwise, that show too seemed pretty messed up stylistically and as an idea)

 

[Farm Boy]

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