Talk:Magical Mystery Cure/@comment-32136229-20130210192228/@comment-108.202.170.31-20130211015448

Agreed. At first I was mad that so many bronies were upset about it - I saw it as whining from a entitled group that is typically used to media being designed with their perspectives in mind (older men). But I realized it wasn't just about Twilight sprouting wings. It's about what Alicorn Twilight represents. What it could be harbringer of if these are the type of changes -big changes- that Hasbro is wanting to the show to make. We all know the writers are awesome and probably even make this change work (keep the mane 6 together, keep Twilight from becoming too powerful and ending her development, give the show a fresh new direction, and do it all withouth retconning and messing up continuity too much)... the fear is that Hasbro is going to keep making changes that reflect their old gender-stereotyping methods of marketing to a show that was all at once unashamed to be feminine while challenging and redefining what being feminine even meant, to a show whose fanbase was itself challenging stereotypes about what men enjoy. This means the young female fans will be shoveled the same super-pink and traditionally feminine things they always have, but without everything else open and unique that balanced it out (ex: it's not wrong to like pink!  But it is wrong to say that pink is the only color you should like if you are a girl). It means the young male fans won't feel included by the show itself, and if the older male fans fall out of love for the show there goes the small social acceptance that the brony community offered for boys-who-liked-not-traditionally-masculine-things. I cannot stress how imporant it is for gender equality for boys to be allowed to like socially deemed "girly" things without fear of being shunned, insulted or physically assaulted.

This last bit is compounded by Hasbro's somewhat anti-brony actions. C&D Fighting is Magic, banning uploads, etc, while focusing its marketing on the female fans. It's not about being ignored as a consumer and an audience and how annoying that is, it's about the subtle implication that Hasbro may think that adult male fans of the show are something to be discouraged. Not because of the clop and the violence, but simply because they are male fans and as male fans of a young girl's show, they are automatically seen as being deviant. And traditionally minded mommies and daddies and politically conservative groups may not support their show and buy their toys if they think the show promotes such "immorality." It's like being insulted for liking something by that same something you like.

TL:DR :  Twilight Alicorn represents Bronies' fear of social dissaproval and a return to the gender status quo, a concern fed by some of Hasbro's other actions within and outside of the animated show itself.