Calling female fans of Friendship is Magic!

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EDIT: Having now picked this back up, I am aiming to have it out around the time Season 4 airs (November). Please continue sending your findings my way for inclusion!

EDIT: Over 80 different individuals have already contributed. More are welcome.



I've been requested to write an article on sexism against females within the "Friendship is Magic" fandom. Specifically, I will be looking into how males 'control' the fandom and how females tend to be marginalized. If you are female and have ever felt oppressed, put down, alienated or anything similar in the My Little Pony fandom, and you would like to be part of a journalistic article on the issue (anonymously), then I would like to know your story. Perhaps you've been told you can't be a brony if you're female? Or, perhaps, you dislike how the media constantly refers to bronies as males?

If you have anything you would like to contribute, send me a note entitled 'Essay' and provide whatever information you feel comfortable in giving.

I frequently received questions for my 'Brony Advice' column from females in the fandom who felt victimized in one way or another by males. I wish to see how this oppression is manifested in real cases, in the hope of drawing a conclusion based on reasoned evidence. Drop me a note if you'd like to be involved.

Thanks!
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MooniGaming's avatar
Like a lot of adults in the fandom, I'm a Brony. You automatically think I'm a male right? Wrong. I'm a female. I hate the term pegasister. I've often had jerks on the internet say "you can't be a brony because you're a female. You're a pegasister".
Lauren Faust herself said that Brony is a gender-neutral term. Therefore a female can call herself a Brony if she wants to.
I will call myself a Brony. We are in 2015, I would have thought that Sexism would not be a thing anymore.