Mixmaster226
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I admit, MLP is not as progressive as shows like Steven Universe, but there’s no reason it shouldn’t be. Progress, by definition, is just that, and not something to be feared or rejected. Cartoons with progressive themes teach kids that things like gender identity or same-sex or interracial couples exist and that they shouldn’t have a problem with people who are different, instead of growing up naive and becoming a bigot later.
As for the culture you say ponies represent that is being “stolen,” you’ve got that totally backwards. Ponies embody the culture we have that is being improved by a younger, more diverse and tolerant generation. Season 8 was one big middle finger to Trump’s America, fighting back against the rampant racism, xenophobia and nationalism that Neighsay embodied. And if anyone’s culture is being stolen, it’s the old, straight, white Christian dudes who have made things hell for everyone who isn’t them for 200 years, and it can’t happen soon enough.
By the way, gender and sex are two different things. Sex is biological, but gender is a social and cultural construct that we are expected by society to conform to. Gender is not rigid like sex is.
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I admit, MLP is not as progressive as shows like Steven Universe, but there’s no reason it shouldn’t be. Progress, by definition, is just that, and not something to be feared or rejected. Cartoons with progressive themes teach kids that things like gender identity or same-sex or interracial couples exist and that they shouldn’t have a problem with people who are different, instead of growing up naive and becoming a bigot later.
As for the culture you say ponies represent that is being “stolen,” you’ve got that totally backwards. Ponies embody the culture we have that is being improved by a younger, more diverse and tolerant generation. Season 8 was one big middle finger to Trump’s America, fighting back against the rampant racism, xenophobia and nationalism that Neighsay embodied. And if anyone’s culture is being stolen, it’s the old, straight, white Christian dudes who have made things hell for everyone who isn’t them for 200 years, and it can’t happen soon enough.
By the way, gender and sex are two different things. Sex is biological, but gender is a social and cultural construct that we are expected by society to conform to. Gender is not rigid like sex