To Megas75: Thanks for your response! I agree that generations 2 and 3 definitely weren't as well written and kind of dumbed down to an extent, and I'm really happy that generation 4 started treating its audience better through more intelligent writing. If anything, I feel like disliking earlier generations for the writing and such is a good thing, as it didn't treat girls as if they were able to think of things outside of stereotypical 'girly' things.
What kind of upsets me is that bandwagon that you mentioned, where bronies say it's bad because of its girly-ness. I understand not liking something that isn't aimed at your gender of course, but condemning it because of that seems a little unnecessary.