Inutile dire quanto per il profano la novità di un fandom di maschi adulti appassionati di pony colorati possa sembrare brutalmente assurda.
Forse la stessa cosa vale per molti giornalisti o scrittori d'articoli sul web che tirano fuori di tanto in tanto la notizia dei "brony che guardano il nuovo show di Lauren Faust".
Quindi se volete raccogliete qui ciò che i media raccontano del fandom di My Little Pony.
E comincio io con un articolo della rivista umoristica Cracked.com:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-4-most- ... p-culture/
Il primo punto della lista.
Trovo esilarante l'introduzione:
With all the concentration on drugs and sex in the 80s, there wasn't much room for work. No one was very good at their jobs as evidenced by show like Knight Rider, projects like DARE and all the lumbering stabs by corporations to trick children out of money for hunks of plastic. Hasbro, for instance, didn't understand how television shows built around pre-existing toys had to be anything more than a thirty minute commercial for the product. They created the plot-less My Little Pony cartoon with the singular goal of cramming in as many different characters in an episode as a little girl could remember while walking through the toy aisle of a K-Mart.
E il sunto di tutto il bronydom in chiave umoristica:
The male audience is big enough and has been around long enough to alleviate most concerns that the infatuation is seeded in bestiality or misdirected pedophilia. They are just adolescent boys who are really enthusiastic about cartoon ponies struggling to learn the meaning of friendship.