Huffington Post article: From Pony to Person-The Disturbing Evolution of MLP.

[Wingnut 7,000]

I was looking at news items on Yahoo! and this little item caught my eye.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/evolution-of-my-little-pony_n_3617896.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

 

All I can say is, wow! "Disturbing", huh? I have two complaints with this article and some of the comments left by readers:

 

One, this article misleads the viewer into thinking that "persons" are replacing "ponies". It's an off-shoot, a spinoff, not a successor to G4 ponies. Two, this article accuses Equestria Girls of sexualizing children. Please, there are far worse offenders in that regard, such as Bratz. But in a society increasingly preoccupied with body image, the EG figures are a bit too thin for my liking.

 

Other thoughts on this?

[NothingIsEverything 1,248]

They just sound completely out of touch with this being a spinoff and completely oblivious about Bratz and Monster High. No wonder they let themselves get brought by AOL: another company that's out of touch and illrevelant. Are they aware that season 4 is coming soon?

[Radiance64 7,053]

Well they seem to be focusing on the toys here, which we all know aren't too great, especially the EqG ones. But still, it's really quite the misleading and uninformative article, no one did their homework here.

[Nohbdy 4,108]

Huffington Post is well known for its extremely biased journalism and half truths. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to find out what Equestria Girls is really supposed to be about. No, it's very clear to me that these "journalists" are pushing their own agenda with deliberately uninformed articles. Even ignoring the silly claims and sensationalist exaggerations that the writer presents, it's difficult to take the article seriously. At least we can all get a nice laugh out of this.  

[Dzastur 1,719]

The article hits all of the criteria it needs to in order to be a sensationalist piece. It's paint-by-numbers.

 

It'd be easy to say, "It's like the writer / contributors have never even seen the show". But it's totally possible they have, and are just choosing to ignore the facts in favor of a paycheck or publicity.

 

You have to fight to get readers today. Fighting fair doesn't usually work.

[Scootalove 10,689]

I can not take these journalists seriously now, I don't think they get the message at all. If you want readers to read your articles, you have to back up your article with evidence, facts, and actually things that make sense.

[Mr. Critical 434]

It kinda sounds like they are grasping at straws without fully analyzing the situation. This isn't the first time this has happened.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Considering Yahoo is so out of touch they posted a article in 2012 that acted like bronies were the newest and latest, I'm not surprised. They're really not good for anything other than their e-mail service. 

 

They're incredibly behind and posting the kind of content that was hot when I got my first dial-up connection as a kid in the early 2000s.  

[Mzukiller 233]

I don't even feel like reading it because the title says it all. Sexualization, disturbing transformation, it's just really twisted to make it look like Hasbro's trying to corrupt children.

 

Oh but the best part has to be the comments, it's completely our fault. Even though last time I checked, no one asked for this.

[Moonlight 7,287]

They're nothing but soccer mom-idiots to me. One of the comments even said that short skirts are what sluts wear....I wore a short skirt before, well I'm a slut apparently. Always willing to jump to conclusions without fact-checking shit.

 

 

[Shanks 10,816]

I think I will keep the 50 points on my IQ and not waste my time reading this garbage. I mean really just how badly do these people need to get laid that they accuse Equestria Girls as somehow trying to sexualize children? And people replacing ponies? Are they really so lazy that they can't spend 5 minutes on google?

[Norman 177]

Well this article wasn't nearly as bad as one a read a while back that accused bronies of pressuring Hasbro to make sexualized dolls (her evidence was the search "My Little Pony Porn" on Google. As if any good would come out of that, no matter what subject you were searching). That one was laughably bad. Journalist is hardly a proper term for some of these people nowadays.

[MLPForums Phanact 1,374]

This type of people will accuse anyone of anything for any reason if they don't fit the all normal, all subservient to the laws of society, kind of box. 

 

"including negative body image, eating disorders, depression, low self-esteem, poor sexual choices."

 

I'm sorry but what the absolute fuck? The Equestria Girls dolls do not in anyway show any form of sexuality especially regarding poor sexual choices and they do not in anyway induce a young girl into becoming "a sexualized, self-objectifying girl."

The people who are sexualizing not only the toys, but the images of young girls are the Journalists who wrote this piece of trash and the Parents who stop buying their children these toys.

I will not be reading the Huffington Post again as I'm really shocked at how poorly executed this article is.

Edited July 21, 2013 by Kaz

[Psychotic Muffin 86]

I remember reading the article from these guys about the bronies forcing hasbro to make sexualized toys and what not? I'll just assume that they only get their research from about half a minute of searching on Yahoo & AOL. 

[DusK 1,264]

Wait, what?

 

 

Is that supposed to be a "disturbing evolution"?

 

Because they're both hideous, but the one on the right stil looks better.

[MLPForums Phanact 1,374]

Its more of a case of "If a toy maker doesn't make toys of every body size, shape and color then they are sexualizing the image of children and brainwashing them to have eating disorders." These people are ridiculously moronic and have done little to no research into this subject.

[Mand'alor Dash 2,224]

This is journalism in a nutshell. Sensationalize the shit out of everything to attract a horde of idiot parents and feminazis to rally against a problem that doesn't exist. It's great for sales figures.

[Zygen 6,066]

Bleh, this article is pretty uninformed sounding.

 

Sorry to say hasbro, but most of your toys are a pretty bleh reflection of the show.

 

To say anything about the show or even the EqG movie based off the toys means they need to do a little more research.

 

I suppose if by sexualize you mean made the girls all in a skinny girl style you typically see, which I guess is true, but at the same time I suppose they don't want to make any of the ponies into big chunky humans. It happens in nearly everything movies and shows now a days, its not really surprising, dunno why the article would think it is.

 

They didn't include anything about G4, they're just like "Look heres the girly version of MLP which is alot older, and really isn't as good as G4, and then heres the famous not show accurate really toys that hasbro makes based on the movie and then make judgements based on the movie and the show as a whole based on this!"

 

It just feels so unsupported, its pretty obvious its biased or the people doing this have never seen MLP, much less EqG. I don't take any of their statements to heart due to their lack of support, and general feel that they have no idea what they're saying.

[~StatesTheOblivious~ 1,795]

From pony to person is actually a pretty good development. *irony off*

 

The ponies are already persons.

 

For serious, there will always be people who focus on the things mentioned in the article. You can't do anything against them. It's pointless. Let them be. They simply want to refuse to understand what they don't want to see at all.

[RockinRarity 1,605]

I do not want to click on that link because views are what they beg for, and I will not give them my time to read something that I know is going to be garbage. I do not say this most of the time, but honestly, it does me no good to look at it because I already know, based off what others have said, that this article is ridiculously misinformed and biased.

 

Whoever said that HuffingtonPost is just out there to sell their own agenda is correct. This isn't the only thing that they gave written about that is seriously wrong. They attract a certain crowd of liberal-minded people who believe that they are being progressive and informed of all the evils that religious and nerdy people do. That is a generalization, I know, but it is true at least a lot of the time.

 

So now you know how Catholics feel when news sites post stuff like this:

 

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3610775/

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

It's all ignorance, that's what it is, and sadly, ignorance will continue to be. That's just how some people are. They would rather stay in their cloistered shell of their hasty generalizations and opinions, instead of opening up to new ideas and thoughts. I'd have to agree that Bratz are kind of hurting the attitudes of young girls, for they present an image of perfection and style, while the EG dolls are for promotion and keepsakes.