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The main reason Bronydom is seen as a ‘gender poison’ to men is because of the surface neoteny, but scratch the pastel exterior and you’ll find a show who’s main themes are social maturity, importance of tradition, family and bravery in keeping civilisation together. Because it is a girl-power show, though, most antagonists are defeated through cooperation and shows of solidarity. In real life, if the women of the Troy rode out to meet those trying to bring down the city walls, they’d be put to the sword. Hence Celestia keeps male royal guards around.. but anyway.

It’s important to remember that most of the foes in MLP are simply Other Ponies, who for whatever reason are prepared to destroy or damage the trust that hold society together for their own ends. This varies between low-level shysterism like Trixie to industrialists like Flim and Flam. Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks as well had villains that succeeded mainly through social manipulation and destroying the mutual trust by setting different social types against each other. The central message of the show is that Friendship and trust forged through experience and mutual understanding are paramount in having a livable, sane society. At a very basic level, the ability to trust to a high level those around you is integral to pony (white) society. Trademark show baddies exploit this trust and destroy society n the bargain. Merchant-capitalists Flim & Flam sold gimmicky, useless ‘tonics’, and Trixie paraded as a potential saviour, only to fail miserably when a real threat popped her ego balloon. When these hacks are exposed and you shine the light of truth on them, they scatter like roaches. Trixie & Co are summarily expelled from Ponyville.

In Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks, the villains actually succeed. Aside from a far-right conspiracy of Friendship Peddlers, the Dazzlings – An evil trio of malicious spirits – manage to hypnotize the whole of Canterlot High, setting every caste, class and faction within the school against each other using a Battle of the Bands. The crowd broils over into seething resentment, and the Dazzlings take the central spotlight and highest social status by Wow-ing everyone with displays of being the most aloof, the most self-absorbed, the most narcissistic and self important. After all, when all of society is atomised into competing factions, the most logical role model is to be the most sociopathic. Hence the section of Western/White Society that relies most on the aristocracy for its morality – The labouring working classes – Idolise the false gods of the Kardashians, and other vapid, pointless mouthbreathers, who hypnotize the many by being just so Cool, so above those stupid no-good rednecks, like a weeping Caitlyn Jenner receiving an award for battling transphobia-induced PTSD or Obama grieving for one of his many Sons. It’s worth noting that these entertainers pass for ponies, but they’re not really. They’re just devils and monsters passing themselves off as white – Sorry, Canterlot High students – when it suits them.

When there is no common goal and social trust is eroded to the most basic level, the ideological class can take control by peddling false and misleading narratives. Society continues a slow decline into total disintegration, and the hawkers are always there, selling false causes, feel-good balm and a conveniently weak and marginalised enemy to blame – Obviously, those sick and depraved right-wingers and their racism, and 'microaggressions’ round every corner that drive innocent black journalists to shoot down their coworkers.

A consensus on an obviously false ideology – 'We’re all equal!!’ paralyses society as individuals suppress anything that makes them conspicuously different. In 'The Cutie Map’ episodes, Starlight Glimmer takes on this ideological caste. Because ponies are suppressing the natural ways they adapt and help each other by playing to their strengths, in order to appear 'equal’; society begins to predictably spiral into total poverty. Remember kids: Choose equality as your special talent. More builders are men instead of women? Sexist. Not enough dindus in college? Racist. And so on.

Difference and equality are mutually exclusive, as equality means 'the same as.’ Starlight has the answer: If there are problems, the cause is inequality. The solution? More equality. We need more Eritean and Somalian refugees, just to prove how much equality we can have, and we’ll throw those friendship-peddlers in jail for a good measure as well!! We don’t have any cutie-marks of our own, there’s nothing special about us, so who cares if we’re displaced? Of course, bronies went off into a tizzy with this one. They mean Equality, but not our Equality right?! That’s not fair! Gay Marriage! And Stuff!!

Starlight Glimmer achieves her total control of Europe through the Televitz, sorry, Staff of Sameness; through which ponies have their memories of what makes them different to the other peoples of earth stripped from them, leaving them scrabbling miserably by, unable to cooperate, harmonise or build a functioning community with the similarly mezmerised ponies around them. The episode is resolved and modernity is destroyed when Starlight is shown to be just another shyster – somepony who hoodwinked and betrayed her folk in exchange for power. There are many whites like this. No doubt if Starlight was here today, she’d work at the BBC.