Ignorephilia

This "sexism" topic appears everywhere in different approaches but similar genres. "Sexism in fandom", "Homophobia in sport club" and "Racism on internet", to name a few. These topics appear in each and every larger community where a larger group of people are 'forced' to interact with each other. We humans have an inborn cruelty as well as an inborn goodness. I won't argue about that; it's a stated fact. I can personally admit that I've done a lot of things that I regret, I've been mean, I've been ignorant and I've allowed my mood to make my actions for me, even on this site. Not everything could and shouldn't be blamed on my age and maturity.

My belief is that a whole lot of people are like me, and even worse. So, does this problem exist in our brony community? Undoubtedly; yes. Is there anything we as individuals could do about it? Yes, a little, but that doesn't mean we'll do it. A big flaw with the, for us, well-known ideology "Love and tolerance" is the second word in that sentence. A synonym to "tolerance" is "acceptance" and close to "acceptance" lays "Ignorance" since to "accept" or "tolerate" one's behavior would be equal to "ignore" said person's behavior. Our general community today is soaked with "ignorance" and we're encouraged to "Not feed the trolls", "don't fish", and are forced with a general "Don't stick out and make sure no one else will" propaganda. Maybe these acts to ignore 'attention seekers' will make people more and more desperate to actually be noticed and does rather be stamped with things like: Sexist, racist and homophobic, than not being seen at all. Maybe what we need to do is just to show people what's good and what's wrong and encourage them to do good things by giving them cred for doing them.

The equalizers

Every day we hear "Sexism is bad!", "Homophobia is badder!", and "Racism is baddest!" and for good reasons. Non of us could stand here and truthfully say that any of these are good things. Only someone stupid and with an IQ of a slug would have missed the flow of "anti-bad" chants hammering at your head since the day you began walking. And you agree! There's no reason you shouldn't. Bad things are bad and bad things should be good things instead. Of course was the napalm use in the Vietnam war bad. Of course is the starving in Africa bad. Calling girls bad because they are girls are bad. Calling blacks bad because they have a different skin color is bad. Bad, bad, bad, bad. A lot of things are bad and those things should be fixed.

There's a lot of groups and organizations who does a great job in making these problems less bad. But there's this thing, these groups, that are going way too far in their work. Instead of saying that we should be proud of our differences and love each other for who we are, or even saying that we are beautiful the way we are, they try to squeeze in every one into one single square centimeter. In this spot there's no differences between men and women, black and white, human and animal, fat and thin, long and short, poor or rich, Swedish and English nerd and geek, fanfic and fiction and schoolgirls and ponies. Everyone should be squeezed into one single unit where every differences is denied. Every unpopular opinion like, sexism, homophobia and racism should be suppressed and those with these opinions will be denied a part in the community. No, I'm not saying we're there yet, but it isn't impossible that we eventually will. Our world is changing, the surveillance increasing, who are you to say that we wouldn't end up like this?