You don't find anything wrong with the sexualisation of a show for 5 year olds and their parents? The fact that when they go online to look up the show and their characters, they find overwhelming amounts of porn? There should be an unspoken rule about the sexualisation of children's show characters (who are arguably children themselves): Don't do it. If it's debatable whether or not a character is of age, don't draw fucking porn of them, and don't call fursecution when called out on how creepy that is. There's also many things the community itself has been responsible for that just isn't okay, and should be covered on this here blog page instead of swept quietly under the rug.
Kitsunelaine (
talk) 07:51, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
I find a lot wrong with the sexualization of everything by our society, but I have seen no evidence that the people who sexualize the show are any more of an issue than the people who sexualize Harry Potter or a million other things -- in a hyper-sexualized culture, everything gets sexualized in one way or another -- but that issue is distinct from the phenomenon of liking the show for any other reason. Also, kids are going to fing "overwhelming amounts of porn" on the internet no matter what they are looking for. The internet is made up largely of porn, and it is inescapble. That, again, is an issue separate from the question of liking the TV show for various non-sexualized reasons. Sorry, I see no real argument here. Peace.
AgingHippie (talk) 07:58, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
The problem is the volume and intensity for this specific show, and the fact that it's targeted age range is much lower than other things. I don't see copious amounts of porn of Strawberry Shortcake. Bronydom started from 4chan, and it hasnt' separated that far from it's roots. The userbase is quite often toxic, and a lot of the behavior it espouses is covered in depth in other articles on RationalWiki, without fear or shame. We would be remiss to say that it isn't present here.
Kitsunelaine (
talk) 08:01, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
I wonder if it' more intense because people look for it there more intently -- the
Streisand effect -- and how much of it gets created by the shaming of it, just by getting the idea out there. Anyway, until I see some objective, data-based analysis that concludes that there is some sort of meaningful nomber of people using the show as a way to facilitate illegal sexual activities, I can't take any claim like that seriously. Peace.
AgingHippie (talk) 08:13, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
here you go Kitsunelaine (
talk) 08:16, 30 October 2015 (UTC)