Talk:Wonderbolts Academy/@comment-166.137.101.151-20121210102431/@comment-108.202.170.31-20121211020745

Me too, if they have RD not join the Academy I hope it is for a reason other than her suddenly being trumped, like her not liking the discipline or monotony of an academic setting, or she does join and it turns out to be a temporary training course (like a special 2 week seminar) and not something long term. People complain that Twilight is over powered, or that RD or others are sueish because of how awesome they are....

....but that's why I love this show! All the characters are mary-sue levels of awesome in their own way, which I feel is way empowering for little girls. They don't have to be severely flawed or "average" or "unskilled" in order for them to be relatable, which is sometimes the expectation, especially for girl-targeted programming,  You get the best of both worlds, you relate to them (Fluttershy's shyness, Rarity's pickyness, RD's laziness, etc) and yet you also admire and want to be them (Fluttershy, who is amazingly kind and brave when it counts, Rarity who defies stereotyping and creates and shares such beauty and Rainbow Dash, who dreams big and can do amazing things). It's almost like the show is telling us it's okay to be awesome. That our flaws do no stop us from being awesome, and that we should never feel ashamed or surprised to be kick-ass all day everyday. Because Mary-sue is such a common insult thrown mostly against female characters, creating this fear of giving female characters too much awesome lest they be hated for it. You have to temper their awesome by making them equally flawed, or make them super sexy and turn them in to a male fantasy, or pair them off romantically with a male character and making him her main motivation  And Faust was like buck that every female character on this show is gonna be unapologetically awesome right the buck now and also they are all single and they have interest in dating sure but it's not all they think about. And the best part is? In doing so they made these characters relatable and admirable to men and boys, debunking all that crap so many media industries try to push that male viewers are all drooling and single-minded, only caring about violence and sex and don't have the emotional capacity to appreciate cuteness, or strong female characters, or story over style. That noxious and condescending beleif that males can only relate to male characters or female characters who have mostly masculine traits. It's why the brony fandom makes me so insanely happy.

tl;dr overpowered ponies all day erruy day