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01/15/11(Sat)15:06 No. 22641342 >>22641179 >Color has never, ever been depicted as a race indicator for the ponies. When your characters are purple, blue, orange, yellow, black, white, red, green and pink, who’s to say which is supposed to signify a white person, a black person, an Asian person? Are you kidding me? That's a "rebuttal"?>[Rainbow Dash] is a tomboy, but nowhere in the show is her sexual orientation ever referenced. Right. The aggressive, sporty character with rainbow hair could never be taken as a thinly-veiled lesbian.>And though there is historical speculation that unicorn horns were indeed phallic symbols, I doubt that is making its way into anyone’s subconscious. The unicorn has long been seen as a common symbol of masculine power that can be controlled by girls. It's pretty standard psychology. Faust makes some good arguments, especially about the role of reading and the diversity of the characters, but a lot of this is just weak, knee-jerk defensiveness. She backloads the fact that it's a show created to sell toys when she should have acknowledged that up front.