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to think those grown up-men who like My Little Pony are "a bit" weird?

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CloudyApple · 27/09/2014 00:39

I have met a couple of them who were really into My Little Pony TV show. They knew the name of ALL the ponies, all the songs, collected figurines, etc
Oh, and they had no children.

My first question, as a parent who has live with the back noise of those voices would be... why would anyone without kids watch this?

But then, seriously, why? I mean, why?

What do you think they find in it?

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DonnaLyman · 27/09/2014 00:40

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SouthernShepherdess · 27/09/2014 00:41

I really dunno..beyond me, they sound bonkers! Aww bless their hearts Wink

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CloudyApple · 27/09/2014 00:41

Yeah, definitely more an age than a gender thing

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OverAndAbove · 27/09/2014 00:43

Ah, I've never met any real-life Bronies. So they do exist then? I think it's rather sweet! Isn't it about appreciating a world in which good things happen to, erm, good ponies?!

CuttedUpPear · 27/09/2014 00:44

My DS age 17 really likes it.
He is not weird, just quiet with a good sense of humour.

Better My Little Pony than Grand Theft Auto, that's what I say.

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CloudyApple · 27/09/2014 00:44

I have met two over the last months, reason why I am asking...

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SouthernShepherdess · 27/09/2014 00:44

As well as it being a tad bizarre that grown men would be into My Little Pony, I think it's also bloody hysterical! Grin

AChocoLipsNow · 27/09/2014 00:44

I first heard about bronies a few years ago on another site and I thought it was a joke, I checked the date, it wasn't 1St April.
I looked into it some more and realised it was real and grown men were really into it.
Yes. It is very flipping weird!

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CloudyApple · 27/09/2014 00:45

CuttedUpPear definitely

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7Days · 27/09/2014 00:45

???

wtf?

Reminds me of a book I read where your man tried to defend his use of porn (I think) on the grounds that at least he wasn't going through the my Little Pony catalogue with one hand.

thesmileofdawn · 27/09/2014 00:45

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LadyLuck10 · 27/09/2014 00:55

Where have you met these weirdos men op?

SavoyCabbage · 27/09/2014 01:01

I watched a film about this. It was fascinating and there are conventions, great big conventions, for adult MLP fans.

They are mostly male. I thought it was sexual before I watched it but it seems not to be.

AgentZigzag · 27/09/2014 01:03

My 13 YO DD and her same age friend, who's a lad, are into MLP in a big way.

I've seen a couple of episodes (had no choice) and can kind of see how it engages them, but only as a TV program, it's all the other shite I can't get my head round.

To me it's aimed at DD2 who's nearly 5, most of the clothes/merchandise is anyway, but DD1 loves her MLP sweater. no shame whatsoever Grin

It's an awful thing to think, let alone say out loud, but the thing that crossed my (suspicious) mind first was that the blokes you cam across were trying to draw children in with it.

I'd punch Pinkie Pie given half a chance Grin

Username12345 · 27/09/2014 01:03

^I have met a couple of them who were really into My Little Pony TV show. They knew the name of ALL the ponies, all the songs, collected figurines, etc
Oh, and they had no children.^

Bronies. They also have conventions where they dress up Grin

It's cosplay.

It's a whole culture.

You seem sheltered.

SavoyCabbage · 27/09/2014 01:04

Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony

missingmumxox · 27/09/2014 01:10

Oh FFS, what does it matter? My bf son loves MLP he's 10, he buys the figures, my 9 year old sons love the cartoons but not the merchandise and also Care Bears.
I have more pressing problem than people actually just you know liking something that hurts no oneHmm

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CloudyApple · 27/09/2014 01:12

My main concern was a while ago, once I was looking for My Little Pony videos on youtube for the children, I found some that were commented and the "bronies" were swearing and using adult language. Unfortunately I didn't found out until it was too late (and unfortunately my children have learnt how to go from video to video on youtube).

Then I met these two "bronies", one is a colleague from work of DH, in his 30s, and the other one is younger, in his 20s, a friend of a friend. Seem normal and Ok (apart from the fact that they like MLP).

I don't know if there is anything sexual about it. I did an image google search and wish I hadn't.

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CloudyApple · 27/09/2014 01:13

missingmumxox, 10 is still a child

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Username12345 · 27/09/2014 01:18

I love cartoons and I'm a bit of a Disney/Pixar fiend.

I still watch Arthur and Scooby Doo.

Can't say it's made me want to shag any aardvarks or dogs though.

YABRidiculous.

SavoyCabbage · 27/09/2014 01:21

10 is not an adult. My dd is 10 too and she loves them.

I lost the first part of my message which was that I watched the documentary film about the adult fans and it was fascinating. There are huge conventions in the US for the adult fans. I thought that there was a sexual element but it seems not.

Bulbasaur · 27/09/2014 01:21

What? Different people like different things? No. Way.

It's a cute show.

I like it, and I'm not weird. Relatively speaking of course. Wink

fairyfuckwings · 27/09/2014 01:24

I'm gonna have to cut in here as my (39 year old) cousin collects mlp.

I can confirm he is indeed weird.

AgentZigzag · 27/09/2014 01:27

The pictures DD brings up from the net/draws herself, are more like MLP meets Freddie Kruger, with them like carrying a meat cleaver with blood dripping off it, that's ma girl Grin

Missingmum, the level of interest I have in why men might be in to it is the same level of the interest I have in why a bloke would join the Roundabout Appreciation Society (their calendar had 100,000 sales??? WTF?)

What is it about something aimed at young children (girls, as it blatantly is) that appeals to an adult male?

I was going to say it'd be like me 'getting into' Timmy Time, but actually there are a couple of modern children's TV programs that I have a bit of an emotional attachment to, like spongebob (even though I love him and hate him at the same time).

KnackeredMuchly · 27/09/2014 01:33

It's fashionable OP

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