(I didn't, largely since I've never watched a single episode, but the psychic damage and whiplash of Wholesome Pony Show having said this line was too fuckn much for me)

EDIT: More replies than upbears now. It’s probably an official struggle session now (although most of it is that one person). One must imagine SisyFEWs happy.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    You know, my trans roommate likes MLP. She used to live with her abusive family who tried to force her to detransition. Among many other ways they abused her was ridiculing her for liking MLP and forcing her to hide her interest in it, and their attitude towards her interest in the show is a lot like what I'm seeing from you right now.

    I work in a public school where I had seen "mature" kids bully other kids for having MLP flair on their backpacks. Or having the wrong color backpacks. Or for seeming too sensitive. Such "mature" kids tended to go to detention a lot and made teaching a lot harder than it had to be because that "maturity" seemed to compel them to bully people. debord-tired

    The shows have changed over time, but the "X IS FOR BABIES" brainworms wriggle through, year after year.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Holy shit the person we were arguing with went into the megathread to passive-aggressively call us out data-laughing

      It's a good thing we have people like that around to show all the babies what a shining example of maturity looks like

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I just noticed that very mature user has an anime avatar. pathetic

        Memes about the cointoss chance of chuddery from the anime avatar haver aside, it's pretty rich that ALL CARTOONS ARE FOR BABIES yet apparently anime cartoons are for Mature AdultPeople. morshupls

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Holy shit the person we were arguing with went into the megathread to passive-aggressively call us out

        Maturity intensifies frothingfash