Alright Everypony, Whales needs your help!

[Flying Whales 311]

Okay, I’m writing a research paper for my English class right now. The professor allowed us to write about any topic we wanted. Naturally, I wanted to write about MLP. I’m going to make the paper academic by making my topic prompt “gender stereotypes and how they have changed” something along those lines. 
 

What I’m asking from you all is if you guys would help me find some research or anything mildly academic that addresses MLP, also articles from anywhere would be most appreciated. 

I thank all of you in advance for going out of your way to help me find some of the research to write this paper because I do fear there isn’t that much, which means I may not be able to talk about My Little Pony and the Brony community as much as I’d like but it is certainly going to make its way into this paper.

 

If any of you that help out would care to see the paper when I’m finished I’d be glad to post it for you all.

 

Again, many, many thanks.   

Edited December 9, 2012 by Flying Whales

[Bari 7,023]

I liked this article. Why I Am A “Brony” It explains why someone might become a brony, as well as explain the show in a way that a nonbrony would understand. I found it informative, and I hope you do too.

[Radiance64 7,053]

Here:

http://herdcensus.com/generalsurvey.shtml

http://www.bronystudy.com/

These two links should be a good start, some surveys that give a general concensus on the herd. They are very informative and certainly help dispel stereotypes about our fandom.

[Danger Wasp 114]

I found a vid of a guy talking about Bronies and how they change the definition of men's masculinity (in a good way)

 

I'll find more videos I saw that can be helpful.

Edited December 9, 2012 by Danger Wasp

[angels_gal 204]

it's an article posted in the kansas city star that takes a look at 'gender roles'   i'm not sure how 'acedemic' this source can really be considered though.  good luck with the paper!

 

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/12/07/3954450/those-little-ponies-mean-a-big.html