Hey everypony,
My name is Leah Palmer, and I'm a senior at Warren Wilson College, studying anthropology. For my senior thesis, I'm exploring how masculinity is understood, interpreted, and negotiated by bronies. I asked Feld0 if I could post a few questions on here for data collection purposes, and was happily granted permission.
While I may or may not use your comments in my research paper, your name, or any other identifiers, will not be included in the interest of confidentiality. If you would like to participate, but not publicly, for whatever reason, please message me and we can continue a conversation there. Further, if you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to send me a message there or to my college email at lpalmer.s12@warren-wilson.edu. Attached is my Informed Consent Form which details my research and your rights as a participant. I request that you look it over before you post, as it may answer a question or two, and it lets you know what you and I are allowed to do with respect to this research. However, as I said before, your names will not be collected or included in my research, and this paper will not be published, so risks regarding confidentiality are negligible.
I am primarily looking for responses from males, but will accept all answers.
I'm posting a set of questions below. You can answer all of them, one of them, or however many you want - whatever you're comfortable with, whatever you want to express. Please include the number of the question with your answer. Be as honest and as thorough as you can. If you have any situations or stories that are relevant and that you feel comfortable sharing, please do! Your participation will make my thesis stronger, and you may learn something interesting in the process.
And again, if you'd rather express your full opinion privately, please contact me. I want to hear what you have to say!
Questions:
1. What does it mean to you to be 'a man?' What do you believe it means to society to be 'a man?'
2. Who was/is your primary male role model? What is he like? How is he involved in your life? (as in, do you talk frequently/about personal things; where/how often do you interact; what do you do together? etc)
3. How do you typically respond to sexist comments/jokes/behavior? What do you think of the idea of traditional gender roles (i.e., men are this, do this, like these things; women are that, do that, like those things)?
4. Have you learned anything from MLP? If so, what?
5. Are you an out brony or a closet brony?
- What made you decide to be out - or not?
- If out: What happened, if anything, when you came out as a brony?
- If closet: What do you think would happen if you were to come out as a brony? Why do you think that?
- What experiences have you had as an out or closet brony?
And the classic ending...
6. Who is your favorite pony and why?
Thanks for you participation, y'all! I really appreciate any answers you can provide.
-Leah
Leah thesis thing.doc
Hey everypony, My name is Leah Palmer, and I'm a senior at Warren Wilson College, studying anthropology. For my senior thesis, I'm exploring how masculinity is understood, interpreted, and negotiated by bronies. I asked Feld0 if I could post a few questions on here for data collection purposes, and was happily granted permission. While I may or may not use your comments in my research paper, your name, or any other identifiers, will not be included in the interest of confidentiality. If you would like to participate, but not publicly, for whatever reason, please message me and we can continue a conversation there. Further, if you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to send me a message there or to my college email at lpalmer.s12@warren-wilson.edu. Attached is my Informed Consent Form which details my research and your rights as a participant. I request that you look it over before you post, as it may answer a question or two, and it lets you know what you and I are allowed to do with respect to this research. However, as I said before, your names will not be collected or included in my research, and this paper will not be published, so risks regarding confidentiality are negligible. I am primarily looking for responses from males, but will accept all answers. I'm posting a set of questions below. You can answer all of them, one of them, or however many you want - whatever you're comfortable with, whatever you want to express. Please include the number of the question with your answer. Be as honest and as thorough as you can. If you have any situations or stories that are relevant and that you feel comfortable sharing, please do! Your participation will make my thesis stronger, and you may learn something interesting in the process. And again, if you'd rather express your full opinion privately, please contact me. I want to hear what you have to say! Questions: 1. What does it mean to you to be 'a man?' What do you believe it means to society to be 'a man?' 2. Who was/is your primary male role model? What is he like? How is he involved in your life? (as in, do you talk frequently/about personal things; where/how often do you interact; what do you do together? etc) 3. How do you typically respond to sexist comments/jokes/behavior? What do you think of the idea of traditional gender roles (i.e., men are this, do this, like these things; women are that, do that, like those things)? 4. Have you learned anything from MLP? If so, what? 5. Are you an out brony or a closet brony? - What made you decide to be out - or not? - If out: What happened, if anything, when you came out as a brony? - If closet: What do you think would happen if you were to come out as a brony? Why do you think that? - What experiences have you had as an out or closet brony? And the classic ending... 6. Who is your favorite pony and why? Thanks for you participation, y'all! I really appreciate any answers you can provide. -Leah Leah thesis thing.doc