@VNagato  
True. Maybe we should make that a tag on these images so people will shut up about “being forced” to see them.

@ice1517  
I agree with you on that, but this image doesn’t even have a particular tag like “sexuality headcanon” on it.  
So filters or not, you could still see this particular image. That includes the other sexuality headcanon image by the same artist. What kind of tag are you supposed to hide anyway?

@The Smiling Pony  
Whats the point of even having filters then if people don’t use them? I mean, I can easily just filter the artist or a few tags, but then I wont have anything to bitch about!

@BlitzTaifun / DragonScales  
>people drawing things I don’t have to see  

@BlitzTaifun / DragonScales  
you know nobody is forcing you to watch this or force you to accept these headcanons right?

Can I please just watch the show without associating my cartoon horses with this? Thank you.

@Amethyst_Crystal HOT DAMN now this is the kinda prophecy I dig.
 
MOAR FLUTTERBAT AND STARLIGHT SHIPPING
 
also an unrelated show called The 100 drew off most of the bad sorts of those.  
They promised a bunch of alphabet soupers this lesbian couple would survive to the end but killed one in an incredibly stupid and asinine way just 2 episodes later. It’s drawn nearly all the fire from “the usual sorts” for months now. I don’t think they’ll stop until they literally have the director’s head.  
(oddly despite being the opposition I have to agree with them, immensely dickish way to get them to watch the season finale, knowing that they’d already shot a different scenario weeks in advance.)  
There’s no clear victors in that war there. Nooooone whatsoever! It’s Once Upon A Time all over again.

@Amethyst_Crystal  
well, people thought that I was terying to start shit or I was a sjw, despite the fact that I hate sjws.
 
Honestly, with these images, even if the person hates sjws and that, they would still most likely be called one because of this.

@ice1517  
Well still seems less intense so far this time around.  
Maybe ‘gender / sex spectrum’ stuff is less outrageous nowadays.
 
Also, artist must have foreseen No Second Prances episode.

@Amethyst_Crystal  
trust me, this placewas a shitstorm when I first posted it.

This brings back memories of sharing a link to the ‘Genderbread Man’ on some image thread here.  
Ended up becoming a shitstorm about how ridiculous it was.
 
Considering this image is almost the pony equivalent,  
kind of surprised things are decent here so far.

 
They do? Last I checked, lethal force was something of a rarity for police, and even then, a lot of cases are rather justified. Besides, a story where a white cop shoots a white criminal or a black cop shoots a black criminal or a black cop shooting a white criminal; that doesn’t make for interesting headlines. Rather than truly letting it go and allowing us to move on, the media would want to create the illusion of us still being in that regressive, racist state we were unfortunately in not fifty, sixty years ago. I’m not really trying to point fingers at any political ideology or whatever, but a lot of these problems stem from people who aren’t police officers taking these things completely out of context, out of the context of other unfortunate uses of lethal force, out of the context of racial population distribution in those particular regions, out of the context of the fact that police officers aren’t killer robots that hound the colored peoples for the government’s sake, but actual human beings with goals and a family to get back to and impulses that they’ll follow.
 
But hey, we’re getting a little off topic here. As for the rest of your argument, I can’t really say anything that VNagato hasn’t said below.

@Background Pony #B13B  
You can say what you want, but my opinion hasn’t changed.  
Labels exist to help simplify or clarify one’s characteristics, but there are beliefs that follow which are the negatives of that.  
Just by calling yourself something, one would think about those characteristics, rather than you are simply an individual. For example, what good is it that you are telling me you are an introvert pansexual trans woman? You’re using this only to express that you have a point and you may be more knowledgeable in that area, but even I don’t need that much information to see that you are trying to express that. In real life, you probably aren’t going to use that description of yourself as first introductions when you meet people, if you do, then well, those people are probably making assumptions about you even if they know nothing about you other than that.
 
If someone is labelled gay, they are homosexual, they are sexually attracted to people of the same sex. But what negative connotations do not knowledgeable people have? There are some small ones, but there’s a lot of extremes too. If I am going to be thought of in such ways other than simply what gay means, I’d rather not label myself as such, and simply a person.
 
Assigning headcanons, just because, is fine as I said. However, if you’re going to link those certain traits to something like sexuality, gender, and race, then it’s no different than stereotyping. Your Sailor Jupiter headcanon is if you claim, just there. There aren’t traits that back up why, that’s fine. But usually that’s not the case. People trick themselves all the time. I’d rather not care about such headcanons for a fictional character.
 
Calling someone a cracker may not be as offensive as the “n slur”, but it still carries some history and can be offensive. Yes, one may be less insulting than the other, but it’s still fucking rude.  

Do all police officers freely kill? Not all of them, for someone trying to prove that labels don’t bring about any sort of discrimination of stereotyping, you have one in your point.
 

Are you suggesting I’m not part of one or more minority group? You have no idea who I am or what I’m like other than the comments I have made, which isn’t much. There are many people out there who are part of minority groups who don’t think or care about these subjects enough to just express them. You’re not speaking on everyone’s behalf.

@VNagato  
Hi. Introvert pansexual trans woman here. I’m completely okay with the picture we’re discussing. I take umbrage with the notion that stereotyping is involved. The issue of labels is complicated, but discrimination does not stem from at all from labels. Rather, labels can be used as tools of discrimination.
 
Slurs, for example. Racial, ethnic, sexual, etc. These are labels that are discriminatory.
 
Let’s also try to separate what we’re talking about here. Assigning headcanons about gender or sexual orientation is not about trying to stereotype, or be offensive, or harmful. It’s about those of us who are not cis, or not het, or not white, or what have you, trying to find representation in characters we like. For example, I like to headcanon Sailor Jupiter from Sailor Moon as a trans woman, because I like her as a character, and to see her that way makes her more appealing in my eyes. So thus, if I were an artist (I’m not) and I chose to draw a picture of her, I’d probably label her as such or present her as such in a picture.
 
Meanwhile, discrimination as a subject is also easy to confuse, because people seem to equate discrimination against all genders or races or what have you as being equal, when they’re not, because discrimination (and their respective forms of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc) are not just about words hurting feelings, but about a whole power structure that reinforces harmful beliefs and behaviors.
 
Calling a white person a cracker, for instance, is at most going to hurt that individual’s feelings. Calling a black person the n slur, however, carries the weight of racism, the power structure that represses and harms in so many ways, from denying opportunities for education, jobs, equal pay, etc, to even life. Police officers freely murder black people all the time (and, for that matter, those of other races that are not white, those who are mentally disabled/ill, and especially poor trans people of color) with little to no consequences.
 
The Michael Brown case, for instance, is a perfect example of the racist power structure. Daren Wilson, the perpetrator, received huge amounts of support from various white organizations, received over $500,000 in financial aid to fight his case, and was not indicted through an abuse of the justice system. Those protesting the murder of Michael Brown, meanwhile, were demonized by the media, having peaceful protests portrayed as mobs, as thugs and rioters. Had Michael Brown been white, none of this would’ve happened. Daren Wilson would likely not have even killed Michael to begin with, but even if he had, he would’ve faced serious consequences. But because Michael was black, Wilson got off scot free.
 
So this comes back to why those of us who are not a part of the majority would create such art in the first place, and why we do it. The same logic applies to those who portray the Mane Six as different races if humanized as it does to the gender and sexual orientations.

@ice1517  
Yep. Learned of it myself just today as well. Only a while ago, in fact. Although I found more articles and info about it when I looked for “chilling effect facebook” rather than “extended chilling effect”. Or maybe I just wasn’t looking correctly.
 
Ah, Kojima. You’re the Nostradamus of our era.

@Background Pony #E755  
huh. Learn something new everyday

@ice1517  

 
It’s been called the “extended ‘chilling’ effect”. There was a research conducted recently about it and its connection to using Facebook. More or less, it means that due to peer-to-peer surveillance on social sites, as well as the sites’ ability to keep everything you say recorded forever, people might have be constraining the self they dare to present online – i.e. engaging in self-censorship.

@VNagato  
I don’t the artist was trying to stereotype

@VNagato
 
I completely understand. I was just speaking in general.

@T-mizzle49  
I’m not sure if you understand my point or not, it is not about agreeing about headcanons, it’s how people are being discriminatory without realizing it.

@VNagato
 
I can understand why Sexuality and Gender headcanon can be potentially off-putting for some people (Especially the latter when you take people with ships that contradict the headcanon in question into account.). But at the end of the day all we can do is support the ones we agree on and ignore the ones we don’t.

@T-mizzle49  
Yeah, but something like sexuality or gender should not, just saying.  
Race can be more correlated to culture, so there’s some reasoning behind that, though they did really bad on EQG design wise itself. I mean, Big Macintosh has human skin colour rather than red just because dark red would look weird.

@VNagato
 
Well people can picture the characters in certain ways for certain reasons. Some are just more understandable than others. I think this whole issue is precisely why EQG just avoided the whole race/ethnicity thing all together and just stuck with the coat colors.

@T-mizzle49  
It’s not that I’m necessarily against it, it’s just that people categorize them according to personality, like Fluttershy as a Muslim just because she’s shy.  
And I don’t really like applying race at all to MLP in general, if I’m drawing them as humans, I’m going by what makes sense in terms of colour, not race, like according to coat colour or how much sun they would get, etc.