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If you catcall (◡‿◡✿)

YOU WILL GET BUCKED (ʘ‿ʘ✿) pretty ponies have no time for your bullshit.

Maybe Hasbro should be made aware of the kinds of things being forced into the mouths of the characters that they hold the copyright to, especially when they’re also using thinly-veiled euphemisms for vulgarity that parents probably wouldn’t be in the mood for trying to explain to their little girls.  On top of that, there are no filters that keep an image such as this from easily being found through Google’s Safe Search.  So much for pretending to give a shit about what children see on the internet, you repulsive little hypocrite.

This is a misandriac t-shirt:

The one we are discussing is not. Guys aren't being attacked for being guys or doing guy things, they are being attacked for harassing someone. It's not even an inherently feminist t-shirt, let alone radically, anyone can complain about being harassed and threaten violence, not that a t-shirt threat is meant to be taken seriously. If you substitutive catcall with any other behavior that's equally annoying and rude, like only non-gendered, the meaning would be more or less the same. I bet you wouldn't be complaining if the t-shirt was referring to shit black or disabled people had to deal with, you are just looking for any opportunity to take the piss, which just makes you and other MRAs look like the fools you are.

I used to call myself a brony, and I suppose I still am. But the negative connotation to the word does make me kind of uncomfortable, so it isn’t necessarily a word i’d use to describe myself either. And i’m not a huge fan of pegasister either, because to me brony was meant to be unisex and pegasister needlessly splits fans into their genders(given that those genders fall in the binary).

Pegasister was a response to that gendering.

MLP fan is the gender neural term. Anyone can be a fan.

“"he wasn’t saying the original brony was a man, he just called him a man because he assumed he was a man!"" I said no such thing, so stop with the bullshit paraphrasing. What I said was be called him a bro (because dudes call each other bro when they like each other), and added pony to the front to describe him as a pony fan, it’s distinguishing from other bros, not from other pony fans. I didn’t not say anything about the gender of the original brony, which is an impossible thing to measure anyway due to vagueness in the definition of brony and the fact it’s impossible to know who was the first fan. The point is that the key aspect of the term brony in it’s origin is the pony part, not the ambiguously gendered term “bro”, where bro is just being used as a synonym for “friend” in the context, Mindswipe’s gender is irrelevant to the gender of the term. It’s absolutely not meant to claim there is anything wrong with being feminine (they love a show about female ponies, for fucks suck, names like Sparkle Fizzlelove just reek of hating all things feminine), that was something pulled out of gofdragon’s ass. If you ignore the fact I said “and male is assumed to be the default gender on 4chan.”, the meaning stays the same, it’s just clearer.

I wasn’t giving an example, I was pointing out the specific origin of the phrase and explaining what was going on. I wasn’t illustrating a point there, but you don’t seem to understand what my point is anyway.

So. “A Brony searching for a Pegasister?” Really. So Brony is totally not a gendered term at all.

Ok so lets break this down:

Vandal was once a group of people known for sacking cities. Over the course of  two thousand years it has changed to mean anyone who destroys private property. Such a change. Such complex etymology. 

Barbarian basically means the same thing today it did in the past but is most commonly used to refer to native peoples. Thus a racist term. 

Geek well that is interesting, that isn’t actually a definition of the word from its inception but only it’s most recent two slang uses. Slang or common language is the most versatile and evolves much faster than other more formal uses of language. The modern usage originated with sideshow wild men. Today this term is still very commonly refers to a male dominated sub culture. 

Hysteria, really, hysteria. Ok, did you know that this word and derivatives of this word are still more commonly used to refer to women? Apparently not or you wouldn’t have tried to use this as an example. It’s also pretty ableist so yeah, I have a problem with this word. 

Hasbro refers to the original owners who were brothers. Just because they have a woman in a high role in the company does nothing to make “bro” less a shortening of brother, which is a gendered word. Also this company only fully invested in toys for little girls in 1982 with the acquisition of My Little Pony. The company has been many times called out for it’s sexist toy marketing and design. 

Human, while yeah it has become accepted as referring to all people. It is a heavily gendered term. It is derived from Man, it makes the assumption that Man is the default and all other people are derived from man. 

I used to call myself a brony, and I suppose I still am. But the negative connotation to the word does make me kind of uncomfortable, so it isn’t necessarily a word i’d use to describe myself either. And i’m not a huge fan of pegasister either, because to me brony was meant to be unisex and pegasister needlessly splits fans into their genders(given that those genders fall in the binary).

Pegasister was a response to that gendering.

MLP fan is the gender neural term. Anyone can be a fan.

""he wasn’t saying the original brony was a man, he just called him a man because he assumed he was a man!"" I said no such thing, so stop with the bullshit paraphrasing. What I said was be called him a bro (because dudes call each other bro when they like each other), and added pony to the front to describe him as a pony fan, it's distinguishing from other bros, not from other pony fans. I didn't not say anything about the gender of the original brony, which is an impossible thing to measure anyway due to vagueness in the definition of brony and the fact it's impossible to know who was the first fan. The point is that the key aspect of the term brony in it's origin is the pony part, not the ambiguously gendered term "bro", where bro is just being used as a synonym for "friend" in the context, Mindswipe's gender is irrelevant to the gender of the term. It's absolutely not meant to claim there is anything wrong with being feminine (they love a show about female ponies, for fucks suck, names like Sparkle Fizzlelove just reek of hating all things feminine), that was something pulled out of gofdragon's ass. If you ignore the fact I said "and male is assumed to be the default gender on 4chan.", the meaning stays the same, it's just clearer.

I wasn't giving an example, I was pointing out the specific origin of the phrase and explaining what was going on. I wasn't illustrating a point there, but you don't seem to understand what my point is anyway.

I used to call myself a brony, and I suppose I still am. But the negative connotation to the word does make me kind of uncomfortable, so it isn’t necessarily a word i’d use to describe myself either. And i’m not a huge fan of pegasister either, because to me brony was meant to be unisex and pegasister needlessly splits fans into their genders(given that those genders fall in the binary).

Pegasister was a response to that gendering.

MLP fan is the gender neural term. Anyone can be a fan.

Look it’s kin Jon pinkie http://pinkiepony.tumblr.com/ http://askfloppy.tumblr.com/

Pinkiepony: if you like jokes you’re a rapist. Pinkiepony: If you don’t like the stuff I like then I will try to take down stuff your like just because of rape and stuff, will it help anything?? No but I’m doing it anyways because I got no life and I love dicks.

There are many other differences between the two that are not covered by this comic - for example, humour is ultimately controlled (like everything else) by the society we live in, so some things will fall flat as a piece of “dark comedy” because they resonate too closely with society’s discomforts or issues. Nothing exists in a vaccum, and free speech is not an excuse to make people view your artwork is if it does.

Humour isn’t as simple as you’d think! It’s a complex thing and can be difficult to understand, and if you are interested I reccomend researching popular dark comedy movies and series and expanding your knowledge!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i9by00Gk-4Q#!

I finally got to do this! Yay! I answered all of the questions!