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buckeyegrad said:
Really? You think the mom is the one with the problem? Seems to me as though the school is in the wrong for suppressing his harmless expression of enjoying a cartoon rather than addressing the actual problem of why the bullying is occurring.
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I think there is plenty of wrong to go around, but it starts with the mom for letting her son get a My Little Pony lunchbox. I don't care how big of a tantrum the kid has why open the door to get bullied? Is it right that it happens? Absolutely not, but you are never going to stop 9 year olds from picking on the kid that's different.

Noted the school completely fucked up the situation as well and the kids doing the bullying need to be punished, but it all starts with the parents. Honestly if a 9 year old boy wants to have a My Little Pony lunchbox he better develop thicker skin to deal with getting taunted until he can graduate and move to San Fran.
 
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BIATCHabutuka said:
Bronies is way too close to the Cleveland Brownies.

Better than bronies being way to close to me I guess.

Sadly if the Bronies are really grown ass men, Vegas would have them as a 5 point favorite against the Brownies.


The Bronies would be tough. You wouldn't want to tackle them whatsoever.

Probably would have some version of the fruity pick from the Chappelle Show Charlie Murphy vs Prince in hoops sketch.



pancakes
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Off topic, but did anyone watch the New Girl after the Super Bowl? I laughed my ass off when Prince made pancakes.
 
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...ccidentally-shows-penis-air-article-1.1725709

"Denver TV station accidentally shows penis on air during Seattle helicopter crash report"

....A Denver television station reporting on the helicopter crash in Seattle showed its viewers some images that were far more graphic than intended.

KDVR-TV had a camera pointed to a computer screen during its "Good Day" morning program that showed a picture of the famed Space Needle building. But then the screen started showing other pictures on Twitter including Edward Scissorhands, a cooked dish - and then a giant penis poking through a man's zipper, according to video on Deadspin......
 
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don't produce tv shows on drugs kids


best part, some dude was probably watching this show and has seen this show use live twitter in segments before and thought, you know what, what a great opportunity to show denver my penis on live tv. dude then takes picture of his dong. dude then waits for his opportunity and then pounces on the stoned news crew with his penis. totally caught them off guard.
 
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exhawg said:
I think there is plenty of wrong to go around, but it starts with the mom for letting her son get a My Little Pony lunchbox. I don't care how big of a tantrum the kid has why open the door to get bullied? Is it right that it happens? Absolutely not, but you are never going to stop 9 year olds from picking on the kid that's different.

Noted the school completely fucked up the situation as well and the kids doing the bullying need to be punished, but it all starts with the parents. Honestly if a 9 year old boy wants to have a My Little Pony lunchbox he better develop thicker skin to deal with getting taunted until he can graduate and move to San Fran.
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And if the situation was reversed, and it was a nine year old girl who likes Transformers or Star Wars, and the school acts the way it does, what happens? Would we view the parents as being bad for not restricting the expression of their interests in order to protect the child? No, we would call them bad for stereotyping gender roles. The school would have been vilified as mysoginists. And people would be saying that the girl is cool, and not assuming she might be gay, because she prefers a story with robots and guns instead of ponies and princesses.

And just for the record, I'm very familiar with the cartoon as my three year old daughter's world is nothing but My Little Pony and Disney Princesses these days. Being that its on my television at least once a day, I've watched a number of the episodes, and they are actually done extremely well for a cartoon designed to sell toys to six year old girls. There are a bunch of adult references in it that little kids are never going to get, such as an antagonistic character modeled after Q from Star Trek (John de Lancie even does the voice), or even having that character, called Discord, dressed as Hunter S. Thompson for a quick visual gag:

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Point is, the toys certainly are marketed to girls, but the cartoon is anything, but that. It really is a show designed to appeal to the entire family--which by the way, is intentional, as Hasbro wanted cartoon shows like this when they created their own 24-hour commercial network the Hub.
 
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buckeyegrad said:
Really? You think the mom is the one with the problem? Seems to me as though the school is in the wrong for suppressing his harmless expression of enjoying a cartoon rather than addressing the actual problem of why the bullying is occurring.
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The bullying can't be condoned obviously but beyond that why would any reasonable parent willingly raise a boy in that manner?

You are setting the kid up for a horrendously rough life.

We can wax philosophical all we want about how things should be but in the real world of how things are, a boy into My Little Pony at age 9 is going to get tortured. The parent pulling some kind of social experiment doesn't get penalized, the kid does. That's putting yourself and the statement you want to make above the kid and to me, that's the very definition of being a bad parent.
 
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buckeyegrad said:
And if the situation was reversed, and it was a nine year old girl who likes Transformers or Star Wars, and the school acts the way it does, what happens? Would we view the parents as being bad for not restricting the expression of their interests in order to protect the child? No, we would call them bad for stereotyping gender roles. The school would have been vilified as mysoginists. And people would be saying that the girl is cool, and not assuming she might be gay, because she prefers a story with robots and guns instead of ponies and princesses.

And just for the record, I'm very familiar with the cartoon as my three year old daughter's world is nothing but My Little Pony and Disney Princesses these days. Being that's its on my television at least once a day, I've watched a number of the episodes, and they are actually done extremely well for a cartoon designed to sell toys to six year old girls. There are a bunch of adult references in it that little kids are never going to get, such as an antagonistic character modeled after Q from Star Trek (John de Lancie even does the voice), or even having that character, called Discord, dressed as Hunter S. Thompson for a quick visual gag:

1b417457-f2c7-4c2b-8b49-37b213874a1f_MLP_412_04.jpg


Point is, the toys certainly are marketed to girls, but the cartoon is anything, but that. It really is a show designed to appeal to the entire family--which by the way, is intentional, as Hasbro wanted cartoon shows like this when they created their own 24-hour commercial network the Hub.
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All I'm reading is "bgrad is a brony".

If I had a son and he liked ponies or princesses or something else, the only statement I'd be trying to make is fuck those assholes at school. Like whatever the fuck you want. Obviously the kid likes ponies more than he cares about being accepted by some little shits at school, or he'd stop carrying the backpack.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
The bullying can't be condoned obviously but beyond that why would any reasonable parent willingly raise a boy in that manner?

You are setting the kid up for a horrendously rough life.

We can wax philosophical all we want about how things should be but in the real world of how things are, a boy into My Little Pony at age 9 is going to get tortured. The parent pulling some kind of social experiment doesn't get penalized, the kid does. That's putting yourself and the statement you want to make above the kid and to me, that's the very definition of being a bad parent.
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Do we know the parent is using the kid to make a political of social statement? If that is the case, then yes, I would agree that is being a bad parent. But what if the parent is trying to help the kid maintain his independence and his voice? What if the parent is teaching that a) you should be able to express your likes and dislikes in a non-harmful manner; b) such expressions may have bad repercussions on you and others; and c) you have to decide where the line is drawn on the positive of self-expression and the negative of the repercussions. Like I said, I don't know which of these is the case here.

I don't have a son, but if my daughter ends up liking something like Star Wars in the future and she was to be bullied for it, 1) you bet I'd be expecting the school to do something about the bullies; and 2) I'd be working with her to understand the importance of remaining true to oneself, but also that there may be consequences for doing so.
 
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BUCKYLE said:
All I'm reading is "bgrad is a brony".
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LOL. No, just a person who appreciates good animation regardless of what form it comes in and a dad who loves taking an interest in his daughter's passions, no matter how juvenile or foreign they seem to me. Plus, from what I understand of the bronies, they celebrate themselves too much for liking the show, which is rather off-putting.
 
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buckeyegrad said:
Do we know the parent is using the kid to make a political of social statement? If that is the case, then yes, I would agree that is being a bad parent. But what if the parent is trying to help the kid maintain his independence and his voice? What if the parent is teaching that a) you should be able to express your likes and dislikes in a non-harmful manner; b) such expressions may have bad repercussions on you and others; and c) you have to decide where the line is drawn on the positive of self-expression and the negative of the repercussions. Like I said, I don't know which of these is the case here.

I don't have a son, but if my daughter ends up liking something like Star Wars in the future and she was to be bullied for it, 1) you bet I'd be expecting the school to do something about the bullies; and 2) I'd be working with her to understand the importance of remaining true to oneself, but also that there may be consequences for doing so.
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9 year old boy into My Little Pony just doesn't equal 9 year old girl into Star Wars/Transformers/GI Joe or anything else.

A boy into a "girlie" thing like that has gone beyond social more and is approaching the "taboo" stop on the socialization train. He's going to catch hell from his peers and there isn't any way for a school to stop it completely.

I am in total agreement about teaching a kid to be true to themselves and that sometimes consequences are involved. I don't think a reasonable adult allows their child to get to the "taboo" stop on the train line.

I mean why not just send the poor little bastard to school wearing a dress?
 
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