I guess to me it would be a weird distinction to make. Pedophilia is the attraction to children, but none of the MLP characters are really human at all. So I feel like someone would find it a weird distinction to make between "children" and "horses." In fact, most of them would just probably stop at "horse."
That being said I feel like you shouldn't go around calling people pedophiles unless they admit having an attraction to children. It's just needlessly inflammatory.
They're not human-bodied, but they basically act as humans (albeit with magical powers and hooves). I don't think the series would have near the appeal it does if all of the characters just did horse things all day - ie, eat, sleep, run around, swat flies, etc etc.
Presumably the small ponies appeal to people in those sorts of scenarios because they share common characteristics with human children... and therefore, to me, the laws of transitive relations apply.
Perhaps, but to me an interest in horse children still feels like a long jump between an interest in human children.
I feel like pedophile is a very serious term and we shouldn't be throwing it casually at people who haven't expressed any sexual fantasies regarding human children, literal children, and not some symbolic abstraction of children.
I think I should clarify, I was talking in context of the story world on the show and how they were RPing Rainbow Dash "Like a pedophile." As in, in the story world, the fillies are the pony's children.
FIMfiction makes this distinction, too. Fic involving sex with underage humans is banned because it would piss off the advertisers, but fic involving sex with underage ponies is okay because a): the advertisers don't care and b): it makes the head mod's peepee hard.
In a fit of pique, I submitted a story in which a pony who fetishizes underage humans tries to pressure a little girl into having sex with him, but is repeatedly humiliated and eventually castrated. It was rejected for "promoting pedophilia."
I feel like people are splitting hairs over what does and doesn't count as pedophilic behaviour.
Personally, I don't think children's cartoons should be sexualized. I don't care that it's ponies and not human children: it's a show that is for human children and sex, and underage sex, shouldn't feature in representations or RP for things for kids.
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That being said I feel like you shouldn't go around calling people pedophiles unless they admit having an attraction to children. It's just needlessly inflammatory.
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Presumably the small ponies appeal to people in those sorts of scenarios because they share common characteristics with human children... and therefore, to me, the laws of transitive relations apply.
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I feel like pedophile is a very serious term and we shouldn't be throwing it casually at people who haven't expressed any sexual fantasies regarding human children, literal children, and not some symbolic abstraction of children.
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In a fit of pique, I submitted a story in which a pony who fetishizes underage humans tries to pressure a little girl into having sex with him, but is repeatedly humiliated and eventually castrated. It was rejected for "promoting pedophilia."
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Personally, I don't think children's cartoons should be sexualized. I don't care that it's ponies and not human children: it's a show that is for human children and sex, and underage sex, shouldn't feature in representations or RP for things for kids.
If I were you, I'd get the hell out of dodge.
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