Why do people hate bronies? (an examination of group culture)
I have been thinking this a few weeks ago: ''Why do people hate bronies?''
To me, this question never really got answered. I assumed that most anti-bronies we're just trolls, having nothing better to do with their lives. Until a few weeks ago, when I was at my first brony con
I have discovered that people don't hate or dislike bronies because we watch MLP. Well, at least most of them. Most of the anti-bronies hate us, because we cross a social barrier.
To explain what I mean, let's look at an example. I am currently in high school, and I can tell you that there are certain groups of people/friends on school. You often see that people who act the same kind of way hang out with people who also act that way.
What causes problems, is when people in certain groups are doing things that for that group is being seen as unaceptable. I, for instance, would never have someone who only cares about being the most tuff kid in school at my friend group, or someone who only insultes you and gets angry pretty easy.
Now, how does this all tie in with bronies? Well, like I said, I was at a brony con. I don't want to insult a lot of bronies with this, but almost everyone there we're social outcasts. You could see that at the way they a acted, we're unshaved, and a lot of other factors. I've even saw a few really fat people dressed as Fluttershy.
Don't believe me? I counted all the people that looked like ''normal'' people. I counted 10. OF THE 300 PEOPLE THERE!!! That's less then 5%
So the fact is that a lot of bronies are outcasts. I won't lie: I'm also not the most popular person in school. I'm also really nerdy and geeky.
But this all isn't the problem. I have found that people don't find it bad that we have a own fun convention for us. People get angry when we say that it's normal
Bronies often say: ''We're normal, just like you!'' Now people are getting angry, because you try to fit in with the same kind of group they are in, while doing something that they see as unacceptable for people of their group, because let's be honest: most bronies are not normal.
I'm not normal, I know that of myself, so I will never try to belong to the people that are not okay with what I am doing. The fact that almost every brony DOES try to do that, is were people get angry about.
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