Sexism in the My Little Pony Fandom: An Essay by Cuddlepug on deviantART

scarletmonochrome:

Artist credit: ‘Sexism in the My Little Pony Fandom’: An Essay on Inequality’ is a study into sexism within the “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” fa…

This is something that needs to be seen. It’s eye-opening, not to the fact of sexism in the fandom, but to the totality of it. Realizing not just that sexism in this fandom is as bad as it is in the world as a whole, but that it might actually be worse. How, from an outsider perspective, this might really look like a disgustingly exclusive group. I think it’s something I, and all of us, need to be mindful of and speaking out against, because it’s a huge problem and, as this article indicates, very totalizing.