BREAKING! Breitbart's Boors Bash Brony Beehive!

Ah, good. Here's my entertainment for the weekend.

Kurt Schlitcher, a contributor to the late Andrew Breitbart's paranoid-loner feeding-trough masquerading as a "Conservative" movie-blog "Big Hollywood," has caught up with the year-old phenomenon of "Bronies" (adult/male fans of the "My Little Pony" reboot)... and has decided they're a threat to America, masculinity and Western Civilization.

Money quote from Schlichter:

"As sickening as it is, we can’t just ban grown men from acting like idiots because we disapprove of their lifestyle choices – after all, we aren’t progressives. It’s still a free country – coincidentally due entirely to the efforts of men and women who put aside childish things to contribute to society instead of feeding at the trough and then sitting on their expansive backsides as they eagerly clap like seals at the antics of colorful cartoon steeds."

Yegh. Now, I'm not a Brony myself - it's a clever show, not really my bag, I lean in more of an "Adventure Time" direction, etc - but I "get" why it's popular, why it has it's surprising adult/male fanbase (I'm talking outside of it's place in the cartoon-fetishism realm, different discussion) and so on. But even if I didn't care for the series, this sort of thing boils my blood.

The tiresome fixation of "cultural conservatives" and "traditionalists" on binary gender-divisions in popular culture - the nonexistant "War on Boys," the fringe of "Men's Rights Activism," the resistance to anti-bullying legislation ("it's not bullying, it's how boys learn to be MEN!"), the terror at the "feminization of society" - it's all part of the same last-ditch backlash fueling the activist anti-abortion/contraception movements, the resistance to gay marriage and the campaigns of clowns like Rick Santorum: The last remnants of the Bad Old Days lashing out as it dawns on them that their anachronistic patriarchy and all the social, religious and cultural superstitions that went with it are crumbling... but still alive enough to do damage on their way down.

As I said, I may not be a Brony; but I've seen how well that particular fandom can mobilize when it gets it's dander up about something - and while I've had my differences of late with The Internet (and do NOT endorse illegal/harassing behavior) I can think of few cultural-entities more worthy of It's attention than Schlichter and the rest of the noxious Breitbart Clique...

So, then, HERE'S the original article.

HERE'S "Big Hollywood," the main website on which it appeared.

HERE'S Breitbart.com, the central hub from which BH originates.

HERE's where you'd contact the site.

Oh, and Kurt Schlichter is on Twitter @KurtSchlichter

And lest you feel that maybe giving Breitbart.com and/or "The Bigs" a headache over this one stupid article is a bit silly, remember - they were also behind THIS. Gotta love the New Media...