GIRL BRONY NAMES

[Ginger snap 7]

I have been thinking of names for girl mlp lovers all day and they all suck,mares,ponisters and more even worse that i would rather not share. Do they actually suck give me some opinions and do u have any ideas. You guys r the best ponisters ever! Srry just trying one out.

[SCS 7,537]

Hi @Ginger snap, just letting you know that I moved your topic from Feedback & Suggestions to Sugarcube Corner. Feedback & Suggestions should be used for posting comments or suggestions about MLP Forums and/or its community, while Sugarcube Corner is a great place to post about MLP and/or brony-related matters that do not directly involve My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
 

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In my opinion, brony is a gender neutral term and can be used to describe a fan of MLP regardless of their gender.

[child of the night 271]

@@Ginger snap,

 

Hey hey, don't take yourself down and make yourself sad.

 

If you ask me brony is gender neutral or considered the male fans while female fans are called pegasisters. 

@@Ginger snap,

 

Hey hey, don't take yourself down and make yourself sad.

 

If you ask me brony is gender neutral or considered the male fans while female fans are called pegasisters. 

[Flash Fire 386]

Ugh, I hate it when this topic comes up.

 

1. Why do girls need a separate name from the guys?

2. There already is one, (that I despise) Pegasister.

3. I don't care what anyone says, I am a Brony

4. I can get more in depth if you want to hear it.

[ninjamon102938 222]

Your fine, your ideas are yours and no one elses

[Adorkable 2,737]

Female Bronies are usually called Pegasisters, or at least that's what I call them.

 

(Pretty clever, huh? ^^)

 

I've always liked the name Pegasister, although I'm a dude, just seems fitting for girls.

 

Whoever thought of the name is a genius.

 

I completely agree with SCS though, Brony has always been a unisexual term for a fan of My Little Pony. ^^

 

But if you like Pegasister better, go with it! ^^ It's your choice, girl! (\

[~ Indigo Windigo ~ 232]

Pegasisters, yep. Bronies are gender neutral, but if you want a special and unique one, welp:

 

Earthmares?

Unisis?

Alimares..?

 

Eh, I don't know, most girls use the term Pegasisters, but some choose Bronies, I use the term Brony.

[KokuraiNoSenshi 3,463]

Personally, I just call them whatever they want I like the term Pegasister, since it is super adorable, and if I was a girl and a brony I would SO want to be called Pegasister. However I know a lot of them HATE that term, so I stick with brony unless I know they are ok with Pegasister. I made a huge post about the difference between the 2, if I can find it again I'll gladly put it here so you can read what I feel about the whole ordeal of Brony vs Pegasister for females of the fandom

[sweetolebob18 728]

Voice of Experience, here.

Nonbronies are going to call you a brony

Bronies will call you Pegasister unless you specifically ask them not to (& some will even then)

If you are over oh, say, 12 or so your friends will call you "baby" or "weird"

Based on a long lifetime of watching cartoons, teens have a very low tolerance for different.  By the time you get to college age, most of them will have encountered enough really weird folks that on a 1-10 scale watching cartoons is, at most, a 3 & they'll just let it slide.

I'd try "Please, just call me (whatever your name is)"

[~Sassy Dashie~ 712]

Pegasisters.

 

Though I think being a girl and calling yourself a Brony is perfectly fine.

[Invincible 2,091]

As some have mentioned, there's Pegasisters. It's kind of a mouthful i guess, so not many people like it.

 

What's wrong with calling female bronies "bronies"? I mean the 'bro-' is a bit masculine but it's not like the men would monopolize it.

[[NULL] 906]

Well if it makes you feel better, the term "brony" isn't very good either. It's about as bad as "tradigital".

[Denim&Venöm 19,193]

If you want something esuggestions, you could go with:

 

1. Horse chicks

 

2. Mane Maidens

 

3. Sisteeds

 

4. Gallop girls

 

5. Saddle Sisters

 

6. Bucking Babes

 

7. Madam Mares

 

8. Corn Starch

 

9. Hoof Divas

 

10. Bronco Vixens

 

11. Equinators

 

12. Herd Homies

 

Or just stick w/ Brony. 

[ShadOBabe 18,997]

1. Why do girls need a separate name from the guys?

 

I'm not a "bro".

 

But, yeah OP, you can just use "pegasister".

That's what the majority uses. 83

[Moonlight 7,287]

Pegasister, brony, or just be called a MLP fan like me personally. Pegasister has always sound better to me though, but call yourself whatever you like. 

[Emerald Heart 24,940]

Well the "official" name for us female mlp fans is calles Pegasisters.

 

I never liked the name, so I always refered to myself as a brony. 

Even though My Mom & my friends always say "But your not a guy." 

[Dark Qiviut 22,444]

There's one: pegasister. But it's the most inherently sexist concept in the brony fandom because of how much it intentionally segregates the genders of bronies into specific categories. (It's the reason why I — as a male brony — and many female bronies hate this term.)

 

Since "brony" is gender-neutral, stick with that one.

Edited November 29, 2014 by Dark Qiviut

[mars 4,862]

Ugh, I hate it when this topic comes up.

 

1. Why do girls need a separate name from the guys?

2. There already is one, (that I despise) Pegasister.

3. I don't care what anyone says, I am a Brony

4. I can get more in depth if you want to hear it.

You said exactly what I came here to say.

[Rainb0wdashie 60]

ok guys, we don't have to call them Pegasisters; Filly Foolers works out just fine    

[Flash Fire 386]

I'm not a "bro".

 

But, yeah OP, you can just use "pegasister".

That's what the majority uses. 83

You are too hung up on the word "bro". No other fandom gender segregates, it's a crying shame that this one does.

[Naiya The Brony 483]

I call them brony

Buuuut.. I prefer them calling on their names.. or what they prefer to call themselves

[Neutral 1,185]

For me I don't see the problem with calling people by their names or brony. Pegasister- this word I don't understand why is it such a problem, to me it's just another name. There are tons of names for brony so why bother with the official name if it's such an problem.

[Celeryjack 71]

Pegasister sounds like some sub genre to bronies who exclusivity are for girls who likes Pegasuses. thoughts? 

[Clover Heart 978]

I don't actually have the answer for this, but I have an explanation of the problem. The problem is one of culture. The reason that the term "brony" works so well and anything that's intended for the female crowd fails so hard is because the term "brony" operates on an already existing and widely used term. The term "bro" is one that people actually use. It's probably also in brony's favor that it's very current to call others "bro" and that it's a portmanteau with "pony." The way to make this work would be to have the counterpart term of "bro" combined with a pony term. People have attempted to do this with the terms "pega sis" or "pegasister." Here's the problem with that. Bro and sis are only counterpart terms in the context of family. However, when talking about the colloquial "bro," there is no counterpart term for women. There's no female equivalent to "bro" in this sense. We don't actually call women "sis." That's why pega sis/pegasister sounds really forced and contrived: because it is.

 

There was actually a poll done on this forum about what people call female bronies. Half of them, which was the majority, said they still call them "bronies." I think this is a good poll, because it gets a wider community opinion. However, I think another poll that may be worth making would be "What do female fans want to be called?" Because it's one thing if someone calls you something. It's another if you identify as something else. But I digress.

 

The opinion of many was that "brony" is considered a gender-neutral term, and it refers more to the age demographic than it does to the sex or gender of the person. I'm a bit divided on this. On the one hand, I do like the idea of an all-inclusive term. I don't really see the need to divide the fandom based on something as trivial (in relation to the fandom) as sex or gender. However, it is still clear that many female fans still take issue with the term "brony" because it's not actually gender-neutral. It might be used in a gender-neutral way, especially by fans who are well aware that there are female MLP fans out there. However, it goes back to the fact that "bro" tends to only refer to men. And some women feel like that marginalizes them within the group. Not only that, but makes them feel invisible within the group. Like the group as perceived as a "boys' only club" or something like that.

 

I think the best thing to do, in this case, would be to make an actually gender-neutral term for all MLP fans. Which, for someone who's non-binary, like me, feels all the more inclusive. Being agender, I can't really identify with either term if we're to go the route of division. Though, I do identify as a brony just because it's easy and people outside of the fandom get it. But that's the other issue with it: people outside of the fandom recognize what a brony is. Changing terms or using other terms, they wouldn't have any idea what those would mean. Could change happen? I suppose. But the problem with that is that it would take a lot of very active work, not everyone is going to do that, some people would probably even be -against- it and in the end, I think it would just be a lot more confusing for others.

 

So, the unfortunate situation is one of three crappy options for identified-female fans. One, go with the term "brony" and have your gender marginalized. Two, go with something like "pegasister" or "bronette," and have a really stupid-sounding term to identify yourself with. Or three, make up your own, cooler-sounding name and have nobody recognize what it is. Yeah, it sucks. I don't think people really thought much about the problem this would cause at the very beginning of the fandom, and it caught such fire, it makes things almost impossible to change at this point. Unfortunately, due to these problems, options are limited for female fans.

[galaxysquid 2,122]

I agree with SCS on this one. I prefer "Brony" over anything else. :3