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stop. calling yourselves bronies. just because you like the same cartoon and fandom shit that they do. You don’t have to. It’s not the scarlet letter. Nobody is branding it onto your foreheads as soon as you realize you love ponies. You can love whatever you want without conforming to any particular social group.
It does not mean “person who likes my little pony” it’s a stupid meme name created by 4chan to mean “person who likes my little pony but identifies as so male that they feel insecure about it if they can’t insert a bro in there.”
That’s like if someone came up with “girlocks” to describe little girls who like Sherlock Holmes but were worried doing so made them too masculine. Or like if bald people who liked homestuck got together and called themselves “domestucks” because it was really important that you knew they were also bald or we had the term “whitans” for white people who like “Attack on Titan” or I don’t know fucking “handwiches” for people who really love sandwiches and also own hands and think those two unrelated things make them so unique that they get angry if you tell them how arbitrary and ridiculous it sounds
Or if people who liked Star Trek called themselves Trekkies. Or if people who liked Doctor Who called themselves Whovians.
They’re cutesy fandom identifiers. Get over yourself and let people call themselves what they want.
You know, a lot of hate between bronies and non-bronies would stop if everyone could just mind their own business.No, no one has to call themselves a brony, and a lot of people don’t - I, for one, will (metaphorically) bite people when they try to call me a brony (same with people trying to call me a whovian, or a furry, I’m just not a fan of fandom labels personally). But that does not mean I go around telling other people to stop using an identifier that they enjoy.
Generally, people use the term to identify that they not only like the show, but also participate in the fandom, which means they have some level of vague knowledge of the extended fanon, which opens up more avenues for people to discuss things. People who identify as ‘bronies’ rather than just fans of the show can probably discuss their favorite artists, their favorite fan characters and writers and theories*.Why do you care that other people want to use the term brony to identify themselves? What business is it of yours - who made you the gatekeeper of fandom identifiers? Not only is your idea of the term brony incorrect (it’s not as exclusive as ‘only male fans of MLP’, that has been debunked a hundred times by other ladies associating with the term, no matter how many times the media wants to be exclusionary), you are missed (either willingly or because you didn’t actually research this) the fact that basic-brony-trash in their post - other fandoms do, in fact, have unique names.
Your entire post, honestly, just comes off as this side of straight up hate, and telling people off. There are better, less vicious ways to reassure people they don’t have to use a label if they don’t want to, ways that can accomplish this without shitting on people who do want to use the label.
*This is not to say people who don’t use the label have no idea about the extended fanon what so ever. But saying, “I’m a brony” generally implies you do upfront, where as “Yes, I like the new MLP!” requires you to parse through wether or not you’ve read any extended fanon.