@Scrounge  
I guess when I say, “I don’t care,” I mean, “It doesn’t matter.”

@BigBadSeed  

 
You made it sound like you were trying to refute this thing. If you don’t care, that’s another thing entirely.

@Scrounge  
See, the thing is, I don’t care. In a world where men and women are created equal, a character’s gender doesn’t matter.  
I don’t care that My Little Pony is a clam fest any more than I care that Lord of the Rings is a sausage fest.

@BigBadSeed  
…Is that really much better?

There were boys on both teams. They just got eliminated in the first round.

There were guys in the CHS team, but the imbalance was kind of absurd.

Now we know.

@epodroznik  
And yet, he’s not that either. XD Flash is a dork who acts like he’s cool.
 
Generally, though, yes, I agree. It goes both ways, too. More of a sign of lazy writers not wanting to try for character except eye-candy, eh? ;)

@Starswirl  
I didn’t mean Flash, or MLP there (Snips&Snails kinda fit though). It’s just that some girl-power toons just love having negative male foils around.  
Guys like Flash, in turn, are to make girls’ knees weak by being an idealized hunk.

@epodroznik  
Flash isn’t an unlikeable jerk, though. The writers gave him more personality than Big MacIntosh had over the first few episodes. And yet, so many irrationally hate everything to do with him. Damned if you do…

@Background Pony #9ED9  
Makes sense. Then it’s lazy writers’ fault that guys are portrayed as unlikable jerks (if at all) in girly media.

@epodroznik  
I don’t think it works that way. If having dynamic male characters “diminishes” the female leads, they weren’t very strong to begin with.

@Anon-a-Miss  
Sub-franchise, to be exact.
 
Also, it’s the Rainbooms, not the Rainbows.

Naming one thing a male has done in the entire franchise?
 
That’s easy: Spike has helped Twilight keeping herself together in the first movie, made a bed for her and was the first one to help Twilight in her fight with Sunset by grabbing the crown and make a run for it. He was also the one who freed the Rainbows in the second movie by finding the only student not influenced by the magic of the Sirens.
 
Oh and then there are Flim & Flam from the AJ short. Sure they were jerk, but nobody has said that only positive things count.

It’s a franchise (sort of) aimed at girls. If guys have too much to do in the movie then the presence of “strong female characters” is diminished. Simple.

@Starswirl  
Tbf, I based it off this:
 
“So far as we can tell, both teams are all female, despite the fact that the games are supposed to be unisex. We even see some of the guys at Crystal Prep in training for the games in one of the shorts, yet both teams are comprised solely of female students. One has to wonder if the guys do anything of value in this school or Crystal Prep at all, as three movies have passed with Flash Sentry being the only guy to do anything even halfway meaningful back in the first movie— but even then it was the result of plot demanding he do so, and done in a very half-assed way intended solely to continue to promote his status as Pony Twilight’s love interest.”

@Starswirl  
Twilights in any universe seem to have an unfortunate tendency towards confirmation bias.

Twilight’s point doesn’t make any sense. She asked if a male ever did something, to which the answer is yes. Crying that anyone could’ve done the same is irrelevant.
 
A supposedly brilliant girl like her should realise that.

So does she mean just the Equestria Girls sub-franchise? ‘Cause I’m pretty sure I could come up with a few things that males have done if we’re including the entire franchise.