@Background Pony #2439
 
the reason users keep doing that is simple. they are horses.

@Background Pony #0630
 
I guess I just used your post to rant since there are users both on here and FimFiction that will claim the ponies don’t go into heat but in other posts will use “they are horses” as an excuse.

@Background Pony #2439  
Let’s not get crazy with the over-generalizations. I’ve said since 2011 that these characters are equine-like, but not horses as we know them. I’ve only ever complained about the estrus trope when it breaks a character and turns them into a sex zombie. I’ve never tried “to have it both ways” because there’s never been another position for me to argue.

Apparently, mares will have recreational sex with a stallion with a vasectomy after a few months.

@Background Pony #0630
 
Yet a lot of people like you would also claim that the characters can’t have periods “because they are horses”. You can’t have it both ways. They are either horses or they are not.
 
I bring this up because the subject sometimes comes up as jokes in fan comics and fan fiction but many of the same users would also complain about the joke there too.

@Background Pony #0630
 
more importantly, some these characters are consistent hornballs. if they had a horse-like estrus cycle, female horses only get horny when they ovulate. so you get little under a week of horniness, and then you have to wait until your next ovulation, which only happen once every 21 days, about 3-4 times until your reproductive cycle shuts down with the summer solstice.
 
plenty of time to get pregnant, but… it doesn’t really lend well to sex as a social activity. nature’s kind of cold and unforgiving when it comes to sex with most animals. if a mare has sex in march, she gives birth in february, when the mother’s still starved from the winter and can’t produce milk. if she has sex in august, she gives birth in july… then when her foal starts eating grass 4 months later, all the grass is dying off in october. so late may, june, early july… and any other time you’re gonna end up with a dead foal.
 

I’m so glad that Spike doesn’t have a thing for Rarity in this universe.

@PUBLIQclopAccountant  
It’s a lazy fan trope. Nothing more. Yeah, real horses go through estrus, but the characters from the show have so little in common with real horses that trying to graft such behavior onto these characters feels forced and downright cringey.

Sweet lord, Rarara! At least reign in your thirst XD
 
@Ekhidna  

 
This
 
@Neko Majin C  

 
TA-DAAAAAAA~!

I’ve heard of erotic cakes, but this is ridiculous.

@Background Pony #2439  
Dress.mov is a parody. The characters take characteristics from the show and are then turned to 11. This just feels like someone using the show characters to portray completely different personalities, and at that point I feel like why even bother calling them the same.
 
@Background Pony #12AF  
Soarin seemed more like overly attached but well meaning boyfriend to me, but I guess I can see it. It’s really more how the women in the series in general are presented. Twilight, Rarity, Starlight, Moondancer all are quite often shown as hyperemotional and irrational, and it all just reminds me of 80s sitcom stereotypes. Meanwhile, Spike, the rational male character, has to solve all their problems cause he’s rational. Has nothing to do with how he is in the show and takes agency away from everyone else.  
Now that I think more about it the male characters are portrayed like sitcom stereotypes too… Zephyr the lecherous ass, Soarin who can’t deal with female hygene products, and the only straight man Spike.  
I guess really my problem isn’t sexism but that I’m reading the equivalent of a lazy sitcom.

He doesn’t know a good thing when he sees it.

@redweasel  
I wonder what happened to him? It has been a long while. Last we saw him was that scandalous evening with Moondancer I think.

I think rarity’s business sense may be a teeny bit skewed from a distinct lack of tax pirate in her life.

@Olpert  
You arent supposed to see them as the show equivalent. Adorkable Twilight-verse is a different world altogether.

@Olpert
 
And I would say the opposite. Besides Spike and Greg… it would seem that Soarin’, Zephyr, and other males are just as sex crazed. Zephyr is a complete creep. Soarin’ is all about touching butts and making a plot pillow! Don’t get me started on the Tax Pirate.
 
What about all the great female characters shown positively or learning from mistakes. You for course have Adorkable Twilight, Applejack who is strong and sure, Starlight is improving, exercising, learning to cook. Moondancer had ambitions that didn’t pan out. There is good in all of them, but there are also faults just like real life.
 
Believe me, both sides are being picked on and it isn’t a sexist thing. It’s just a humorous view of these Adorkable characters. In no way is this supposed to be the show.
 
But even with all that, there are some truly loving and heart warming stories and arcs.

lol

@Olpert  
Mares in heat is a real thing.

@Olpert
 
The “adorkable” characters =/= the show characters
 
Next are you going to call out Dress.mov for also not being accurate to Rarity in the show?

Honestly starting to get a bit tired of how just about every female character in this series is a cliche out of an 80s sitcom and behaves nothing like their show counterparts. Like, there’s maybe two episodes I can think of where Rarity even goes after any stallion and its never portrayed anything as desperate or dumb as this. It does the characters a disservice and kinda smells a bit sexism-ish, especially considering how good at everything Spike is, or how the other male characters like Greg and Soarin generally are portrayed as competent and caring.

I think that 50th customer was already married

God damn it, Rarity…

Oh Rarity

I bet it was coconut.