Are Female Bronies / Pegasisters over looked ?

[Solid 1,327]

Males seem to violate the media stereotypes more than females, since apparently my little pony is for little girls according to those stereotypes. Though female adults/teens get their fair share of weird eyes, they receive relatively less attention since the media stereotypes of mlp are female oriented.

 

No sexism of any kind involved, all from my observation, my personal opinion on this is: screw media stereotypes let's watch ponies.

Edited October 14, 2014 by Solid Scorpion

[Admiral Regulus 2,769]

From my research, I can conclude that the answer is definitely, most certainly yes.

 

That said, most fans are male. In addition, from what I can decipher, male fans and female fans are actually very, very different in their attitudes towards the fandom... there are huge discrepencies in the responses I've seen thus far. Bronies and Pegasisters are like two completely different species.

 

Strangely, I've yet to encounter a study that even acknowledges the existence of pegasisters. Everything I've found focuses on the male fans, which... if you think about it, means those studies aren't exactly conclusive. That's exactly where most of the data I've found falls short.

 

But I'm rambling now. Anyway, the answer is yes. Pegasisters are definitely overlooked.

Edited October 14, 2014 by Regulus

[Sunny Fox 5,952]

They probably treasure their anonymity, so that they don't have to contend with all the male bronies hitting on them.  :okiedokielokie:

[Sugar Cuddles 402]

I'd say no. They sometimes get more attention as it appears that there's more bronies than pegasisters. In media they might seem overlooked. But it's more the stuff that parodies the fandom, or articles where they mention the majority of the fanbase :3

[Pink Brook 30]

From my research, I can conclude that the answer is definitely, most certainly yes.

 

That said, most fans are male. In addition, from what I can decipher, male fans and female fans are actually very, very different in their attitudes towards the fandom... there are huge discrepencies in the responses I've seen thus far. Bronies and Pegasisters are like two completely different species.

 

Strangely, I've yet to encounter a study that even acknowledges the existence of pegasisters. Everything I've found focuses on the male fans, which... if you think about it, means those studies aren't exactly conclusive. That's exactly where most of the data I've found falls short.

 

But I'm rambling now. Anyway, the answer is yes. Pegasisters are definitely overlooked.

Agreed, I don't think pegasisters will ever be as recognized as bronies. And just as boys have different personalities than girls, bronies have different personalities than pegisisters. Plus, I went to see the Rainbow Rocks moive when it came out (I NEED TO SEE IT AGAIN) and there were no other girls cos playing my age. The closest was 9 or 8. But hey, bronies, remember this, there wouldn't have been any my little pony, with out us girls.

I didn't mean girls aren't bronies I meant girls don't have the same personality as bronies.

[Tao 7,902]

Some times I think labels such as: Brony and Pegasisters

get the fan's panties in a bloody twist if you ask me.  Look,

you have fans of the show of different levels who are girls

and guys,  some like the show more and may use such labels

to make them stand out and well,  feel they belong to a fandom/group

just a bit in how we use labels outside of fandom in RL.  

 

Personally I'm part of a lot of fandoms,  not just MLP and I

dont use such labels.   Can't we stop this divide and levels and just be

fans of a great show?

[Cloud Yeller 69]

Strangely, I've yet to encounter a study that even acknowledges the existence of pegasisters. Everything I've found focuses on the male fans, which... if you think about it, means those studies aren't exactly conclusive. That's exactly where most of the data I've found falls short.

Check out the State of the Herd report.  They break things down by gender (including trans), marital status, country of origin, military service, etc.  I'd recommend giving it a read.  

 

As for the thread topic, girls outside the target demographic are overlooked by the media/society as it's not considered weird for a girl of any age to like bright colors and ponies.  Society is much more tolerant of girls liking "manly" things than of boys liking "girly" things.  

[Dashabel 381]

I'm female, I'm 15 years old. My friends think it's bloody hilarious that I like ponies. But, they accept it. However, being a male and aged from about 10+... Well, you know the deal. It's hard, I guess. But I don't know any personally.

[Scoots2 8]

I really don't care about being overlooked by the media, but sometimes the fact that I'm assumed to be male gets old. Not so much the "hey, I'm guessing you're male," but the gasps of "YOU'RE A GIRL??!!!?" That DOES get old, especially on FiMFiction. When you consider that lots of women and girls like ponies and always have, and that overall, cutting across fandoms, 80% of fanfic writers are female, FiMFiction is exactly where you'd expect female fans to be. 

 

I've been to cons, but I've never, ever been to a meetup, because between my age and my gender, nobody would feel comfortable about my being there, and I don't want to be greeted with "ok, which doofus brought his mom?" So one reason female fans might be "invisible" is because no one knows what gender you are on the internet, and brony gatherings are mostly male, from what I can see. 

 

This is actually a really adorkable romance plot in Bronies: the Musical, as it dawns on the very shyest brony, who could barely bring himself to go to a Brony meetup, that that cool dude he's been chatting with online, "Wild Horses," is actually a cute nerdy girl.

 

I think it's slowly getting around campus that "Professor X is a Brony, dude," and I have no idea what it does to my credibility, but if anything, I think it's gone up. ("Does she really have PONIES on her cellphone?" Yup.)

[Paleopony 703]

I think female fans are often overlooked by the media because females liking something made for their gender is not surprising. On the other hand, in society’s eyes, male fans of a girls’ cartoon are quite a sensation. However, the fact remains that anyone of any gender can like MLP.

[Winter Storm 245]

There doesn't seem to be many of them, probably skewed 10 to 1 in favor of males which seems ridiculous for a show with the target demographic of little girls.

[Wingnut 7,000]

Here’s another sugarcube corner topic that should’ve caught my eye years ago but didn’t.  My hunch is that since MLP was aimed at a female audience from the start, any fans of that gender is unremarkable.  If you want to discuss fandoms by sex, what about the Transformers?  Believe it or not, Botcons tended to have more women in attendance than BronyCons.  And I was once on a Transformers discussion board which was mostly female.  I don’t recall ever seeing any reaction in the media regarding their disproportionate attraction to a franchise intended for boys.  

[Splashee 28,566]

I don't know. I never thought of Bronies as a male gender thing. It is more of a term for a fan of G4.

[ExplosionMare 18,067]

There’s a good amount of popular female Brony creators so I wouldn’t say they’re ignored. As far as negative stereotypes go, though, females don’t get it as bad as males since MLP is supposed to be a feminine thing.

[EpicEnergy 23,222]

I don't think they are being completely overlooked; however, males are the focus more often when it comes to bronies due to the fact that it is weirder for a male to be a brony than for a female to be a brony.