@and brother.. I nominate your comment for best comment on the internet.

…so basically, every time you see her on screen, it’s like
 

Understandable, with all these masculine-acting ponies.

i ougghta crak that head open cuz yous a dumbass

Well that’s a point

dang. sorry. Took forever to get a picture of snips to work.

Snips.png!

@takuta  
Snips.png! boys don’t have to have “big horse faces” Also, I wonder if Lauren originally intended Scoots to be a boy..

@SeraphimDawn:
 
That could be one of the genuine reasons.Being exposed to tons of androgynous female/male characters could have had some influence.

I thought Rainbow Dash was a rather feminine boy the first time I saw her in the famous scene in Sonic Rainboom.
 
I guess I was too influenced by many Japanese anime at that time. Because in anime, young feminine boys are the most important characters. Japanese Anime Cliche”

It seems that a lot of people have mistaken her for a boy. Is it really that hard to tell the difference?

Since I’ve been following this franchise since G1 and I am at least acquainted with G3,I never had this problem.
 
But I understand why you were confused,OP.

I think she has a long-lost twin brother that she’ll probably never meet.

Seriously.  
The answer it’s on their snouts, just look at them!  

That should be a “v”…it irks me there’s more than one way to show threads.

^  

vScoots, not Derps…

I thought the same thing. Maybe she’s a dyke?

I also thought that Derpy was a boy for a long time.

Wait. Raindrops isn’t a boy… LIES!

Season one it would be easy to confuse gender since there were almost no males but near the end there were plenty.

I thought Vinyl Scratch and Raindrops were boys.

Scottaloo?