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If she had more interaction with male characters, we’d ship her with male characters.
The only (non-jerkass) interaction she had in the ep was with Spitfire and Dash, and (right or wrong) that’s how the shipping world works.
Tomboy = Lesbian, am i right?
God, bronies are so narrow minded sometimes.
This is also somewhat interesting in so far as IIRC Ponyville was said to have started as an Earth Pony town. In that context the fairly even gender split among Earth Ponies is interesting as it may point to most of the immigrant Unicorns and Pegasus having been female for some reason, thus skewing the local ratio. It then perhaps became known as a female enclave of sorts and Earth Pony mares may have started preferentially immigrating too thus explaining the slightly lopsided ratio there. This is further supported by the gross dominance of Earth Ponies in numbers. (more examples then Pegasus and Unicorns combined).
Even beyond that it’s pretty clear to me the supposed “lopsided ratio” is probably almost entirely observation bias. It’s an almost classic case of the “streetlight effect” where we tend to focus on the trends that are easiest to observe. In this case the entire main cast is female, and this can quickly be translated into “based on the dominance of females in a group of less then a dozen individuals in a single town its clear the gender ratio is hugely biased toward females across the entire species”
Said like that it’s clearly a silly generalization, but that’s just how our brain tends to work. It’s naturally drawn to the simple solution right in front of its eyes that it can see is obviously true. This effect is then further reinforced by another gender bias: namely the unexpected but overwhelming majority of males in the most active and vocal portion of the fandom (artists and fic writers). For reasons that need little explanation they’re much more likely to latch onto and obsess over females, and so even among secondary characters the females are quickly elevated by fanon even though there appearances are in many cases no larger then males.
Thus we get a feedback loop of sorts the main cast is female and most fans are male, the fandom thus fixates on females to the exclusion of males, and our view that females dominate are reinforced. This is then used as an excuse to explain the ridiculous abundance of lesbians, when in fact the supposed ‘need’ for such an excuse is entirely generate by the fandom itself, as having preferentially focused on females in fanon it lacks suitable male partners.
On that note it might actually be interesting to compare the numbers of even somewhat prominent males over the seasons. Just anecdotally based on how many seem to end up with a fandom presence I’d suspect the number has increased over S2 and into S3, as noted in this ep we have several males prominently featured in the recruits. I wonder if that would have been the case had the male audience not materialized and been acknowledged, or if there increasing presence will erode the gender bias ideas.
Also yes I do consider you all to be an interesting and often amusing lab experiment.
Especially if that Sergeant is 6 inches shorter than you.
To be fair, when 90% (slight exaggeration) of the cast are female, everyone’s going to be interpreted as a lesbian.
It’s true.