@Background Pony #B54B  
 
You’re the one who’s not getting it; it is a bullshit distinction. “People who don’t eat meat” is not a classification which justifies a special snowflake label for those who want some kind of social consciousness merit badge without actually holding themselves to a difficult standard. They’re not special. They’re just “people who don’t eat meat”.

@TexasUberAlles  
Pedantry? Are you fucking serious? You’re the one going on about dairy products when the definition is they don’t eat meat! Awful argument on your part. You’re the one who’s taking the word too literally, if you were really taking it literal you would include nothing but vegetables at all. The actual definition is they don’t eat meat and there is a reason to identify that way even if you have dairy products because the main point it fucking comes down to is animals don’t have to die. Vegans are a different thing because they won’t eat anything that came from an animal even if it didn’t have to be killed. I can’t believe you don’t get this!

@Background Pony #B54B  
Pedantry will get you nowhere. The term “vegan” was specifically coined because actual vegetarians were tired of being lumped together with the ponces who were calling themselves vegetarian while eating eggs and cheese.

@TexasUberAlles  
Vegetarian doesn’t mean you only eat vegetables and has never in its history ever meant that. Even outside of dairy products, there are nuts, fruits, grains, etc.

@Background Pony #B54B  
Maybe pay attention to the actual conversation. I am specifically saying that the definition is a bunch of irrational twee bullshit.
 
Milk is not a vegetable. What are you, the ghost of Nancy Reagan?

@TexasUberAlles  
Maybe look up the actual definition of the word.

@Background Pony #B54B  
Well, milk sure as hay ain’t a vegetable, either. No one’s tellin’ you that you can’t have [whatever], but if you’re eatin’ somethin’ you squeezed out of an animal, you ain’t a vegetarian.

@TexasUberAlles  
Milk isn’t meat. It makes no sense to say that if someone decides not to eat meat that they can’t have dairy products. Vegans don’t consume anything that even comes from animals. They’re different!

@TexasUberAlles  
Fine, whatever. But I’m still declaring this semi-anthro because this sort of thing isn’t what I want to see when I search the anthro tag.

@Darth Sonic  
No, I honestly despise the sanctimonious bullshit involved in the distinction. If you eat fish or chicken, or consume dairy products, you are not a goddamn “vegetarian”, you are “a person who just doesn’t eat red meat but still wants everyone to think you’re a special snowflake”. “Vegan” just sounds ridiculous, and it’s a completely unnecessary term; you’re a vegetarian or you aren’t, stop acting like a friggin’ primadonna because you don’t like beef or pork.

@TexasUberAlles  
But vegetarians and vegans are very different things.
 
Oh! You’re doing that sarcasm thing, ain’t ya!

@TexasUberAlles  
Vegetarians and vegans are different things.

@Darth Sonic  
I don’t have any more use for a distinction between “anthro” and “semi-anthro” than I do between “vegetarian” and “vegan”; it is or it isn’t, pick a side, we’re at war.

@TexasUberAlles  
Actually only semianthro. No hands or breasts.

@Background Pony #B54B  
It’s a cartoon  
It’s an anthro figure of character from a cartoon.
 
The design isn’t just standing up, it has hips oriented for bipedal posture and an outfit cut for upright shoulders. It’s anthro.

@Background Pony #8982  
I doubt a horse could have Lyra’s sitting posture either.
 

 
It’s a cartoon.

We need more of Future Twilight.

@Background Pony #B54B  
If at least to the most finite degree, I’d think that stance makes it anthro. Doubt a horse can has posture.

@cheezedoodle  
It’s not anthro.

Pony? want. Anthro? pass.

They must have worked really hard to make a figure this hideous.

It kind of bugs me that she both stands upright & lacks hands.

Just love the fact that this is official merchandise!
 
Yes, I know that this wasn’t made by Hasbro itself, but they licensed it, so it’s still counts as official!

Very nice.