And so the Bronies are complaining yet again. To what this time? A statement Meghan McCarthy made about how "every little girl wants to be a princess".
http://family-room.ew.com/2013/01/29/my-li...light-princess/EW can exclusively reveal that the third season finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic will see everyone’s favorite unicorn being named a princess ó and gaining a new pair of regal wings in the process. “She was set up from the very beginning to be on an important journey,” explains MLP head writer Meghan McCarthy. “It’s really about her earning this new status by combining all the things that we’ve seen her learn over the course of the series.”
But don’t worry, Pony fans ó though Twilight will undergo a physical transformation, her personality will remain the same. “What we didn’t want to do was change who she is as a character, because she’s certainly someone that everyone’s proud to know and love,” McCarthy says. “I don’t think becoming a princess really changes her; I think it’s going to introduce some new challenges for her.”
Those challenges will include living up to that lofty new title. In MLPës Equestria, “princess” is a designation that’s earned, not freely given ó and though princesses have specific leadership roles in pony society, being one really means “being a good pony who shares the gifts that they have been given with others,” according to McCarthy. “We’re building a very unique mythology around being a princess,” she continues. “Every little girl wants to be a princess, and not everybody can get to be a princess ó but you can live up to the ideals that should come along with being a princess.”
I don't understand what is so bad about her statement. When she said "every" little girl, I don't think she literally meant "every". And so what if there are little girls who want to be princesses? News flash Bronies: Little girls LIKE princesses! Maybe if some of you stepped out of your parents' basements for a few seconds you'd realize this. How old are these little girls that wish they were princesses? Like between the ages of three and nine maybe? They're kids! It's not like they'll retain this desire into teen and adulthood.
What if McCarthy said "every little boy wants to be a superhero"? Would anyone be outraged by that statement? More than likely not. So what's the problem with saying every little girl wants to be a princess? I think she realizes that not all girls like princesses or want to be one. She was speaking figuratively. Kind of like if I said "All boys like baseball". I know not all of them do, I'm just speaking figuratively.
There's no reason to pick her statement apart or bash her. She didn't say anything wrong or harmful. And if a girl wants to pretend she's a princess, if she wants to pretend she's Ariel or Jasmine or Celestia, what's the harm in that? It's no different than a little boy pretending to be Iron Man, Spider Man or Batman.
