You Are Offered A Chance to Become a Pony and Go to Equestria! Do You Change Gender?

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  • ScourgeHH - 8 years ago

    Is there any way to give suggestions for upcoming polls?

  • jim - 8 years ago

    Yeah, I'd be a lesbian pony. If fan art is any indication, I'd quickly be best friends with the Mane 6. And satisfy my scientific curiosity at the same time.

  • Niko :33 - 8 years ago

    I'd stay male but I'd probably crossdress/wear more girly and cute things :3

  • GreenSky - 8 years ago

    the male pony design sucks

  • Random Internet Person - 8 years ago

    I've actually been confused over my gender identity for a long time. I'd like to test the female body if their was some magical way to (not in that way, guys!). Just get a feel for it, might even make me grow as a human being.
    A female cartoon pony would be a different story i guess. But I'd probably still chose to be a mare. Because of multiple reasons:
    1. Up until now, we only saw male mail ponies. I don't want to be a male pony.
    2. The stallions don't look as cute. I'd like to be a cute pony, if I have the choice.
    3. It might be due to the lack of shown stallions, but we have seen stallions depicted in more or less stereotypically male positions/behaviours. Big Mac is the hard working farmer, Shining Armor is basically a royal knight and other stallions Braeburn is the stereotypical wild west cowboy, etc. Then there is the thing about smartypants. Big Mac seems really embarrassed by stuff that is not seen as normal in his situation (except if their is a reason for him to show femininety or childish behaviour, as in "Brotherhooves Social", although the main reason for his act was definitely to help Applebloom). The existence of social norms regarding gender is further evidenced by Spike's behaviour, especially in "The Ticket Master". The way Equestria was portrayed so far makes it seem very likely that our main characters are pretty awesome people, and it is very well possible to be a bit... weird and be accepted still (Pinkie

  • HowToLieToBirds - 8 years ago

    lol It's Great how they finally asked this question.
    I remember the original question back like half a year ago that said something like: If you could go to Equestria what would you go as? or something like that.
    Two of the options were "go as a Male pony" and "go as a Female pony".
    The comment section was flooded with people wondering if it meant it as a you change gender or if it was to gauge how many male bronies there were vs female bronies.
    Anyone else remember that?

  • Smithers - 8 years ago

    I voted "Stay Male"; I don't really have any particular attachment to my sex/gender, but I don't see any reason to change it either.

    This concludes "What's my Vote?" Next up: "Replies, all of the Replies!"

    @don, @Paranoia: That's a rather cynical approach to the question, no?

    @Gus: I also remember that poll's existence. I looked it so I could compare the results, but it's impossible to find because all the terms I would search for are on literally every page because of the current poll. The closest I could find was one from earlier this year which suggests slightly more of was want to be stallions than mares, but without asking what gender we are as a human. http://www.equestriadaily.com/2015/03/poll-results-offered-chance-to-teleport.html

    @Badly Drawn Turtle: "Would you accept an offer to man the Enterprise?" Why would I even want that? I'd probably end up as a redshirt who appears in one episode and gets killed off before the audience even knows my name.

    @Lunarevel: "getting smuggled inside by The Great and Powerful Trixie." Have you been playing Banned From Equestria (Daily)?

    @MWJC: Screw hands, I wanna have wings!

    @Spade McTrowel: Heck yeah! Why be anypony when you can become everypony?

  • Michi - 8 years ago

    Honestly... these results aren't that surprising.

  • Spade McTrowel - 8 years ago

    Become a Changeling and be either whenever I want?

    Except... bugs....ew.

    --Spade

  • Celes - 8 years ago

    Umm, it occurs to me that I don't know if anyone here can find the e-mail it prompts for. ._.
    Hope it's okay I can just post it here, it's aria-of-shamanism@hotmail.com. I know, kinda differennt for an address, hehe.
    Please, I'd love to hear from fellow fans of this show that feel like I do. >w

  • Celes - 8 years ago

    Decided to check EQD after 'Mane Attraction', saw this poll, immediately hit 'Become Female'. Why? I'll get to that in a bit, but as for the world itself, I might be biased in the same way as some others here, but mostly there just seems to be more unity, understanding, and possibility. Granted just because we haven't seen a lot of the possible darker sides that exist doesn't mean they aren't there. Even so, it's a world where you can find your happiness, socially/politically acceptable or not, with nobler ideals genuine peace. Just a fantasy, maybe. Fantasy in our world though, however noble or simple, doesn't work that way. Reality never relents on crushing it while forcing you to watch, causing pain to everyone that then propagates itself endlessly.
    As for the female part, it's just how I know my personality would be most comfortable. If anyone reading this feels similarly to me, by all means, send me a message, I'd enjoy a nice talk. ^_^ Bonus if you live near me. ;P

  • ShyandMighty_ - 8 years ago

    I'm transgender, and it's awful. I wish I could be whisked away to a magical world where everything is OK, my body is right, and I'm accepted for who I am. No more explanations about intimate matters to people who are just "curious" or angry confrontations with people who just refuse to understand.

  • shudderbrush - 8 years ago

    I'm intrigued by this poll.

    If it had not been offered up as an option, and this was only "Become Pony/Don't Become Pony", I would never have even suggested the option, but ...

    ... what the heck. I'm already Changing Species.

    I think I actually would seriously consider going all-in on the Matriarchal society of Equestria and become a Mare.

    ... and now I can't help but look at my (up to now presumed Male) OC Ponysona Shudderbrush differently. I don't actually have a solid backstory or even a single drawing of my character yet. Who's to say Shudderbrush hasn't been a SHE all along.

    ... Hmmm ...

  • AC - 8 years ago

    Maybe being trans affected my answer, but I'd turn female in a heartbeat.

  • Vandroiy - 8 years ago

    Depends on how many people come along, and how they choose.

    Think about it: when looking for a partner and seeking a heterosexual relationship, no offense to people with other preferences, it seems favorable to be in the minority gender.

    Maybe I'm weird about this, but to me, having this... heterogeneous guy-girl relationship is, together with good chances to find a nice partner, maybe more important than which gender I'd get. I'm straight and male, but could still imagine living as a "straight" girl. Emotionally, I'm unquestionably male, so I might turn out somewhat narcissistic about myself in case I was a pretty girl, but that doesn't translate too much to cartoon ponies anyway.

    (I find it hard to answer whether I'd go at all because Equestria's worldbuilding does not appear consistent enough for me to know what that would even mean.)

  • MWJC - 8 years ago

    I chose not being a pony because I love hands to much

  • Radical Brony - 8 years ago

    I don't know about you all but I be a female in Equestria so I could check myself out. Crotchtits and all.

  • Badly Drawn Turtle - 8 years ago

    @HalflingPony
    But, of course, he changes his mind by the end of the tale.

  • RayvedSpark - 8 years ago

    reply to HalflingPony : When your a time lord you get to explore millions of galaxys and awsome places like Equestria + you get to be in time for dinner ... any dinner you want actualy, you can even dine whit your past or future self.

  • rarityofmind - 8 years ago

    Wow guess I can't participate in this poll considering male and female aren't the only genders and I'd like to remain genderless...

  • Frederick - 8 years ago

    I'd like to see an option that was "I'd take whatever, to Equestia.

  • HalflingPony - 8 years ago

    @Badly Drawn Turtle
    You're absolutely right that the "changing genders" thing is the least interesting part of the question, but I still don't get get why any one would want to visit Equestria or join the Enterprise crew. The earth bender thing I could get behind... just so long as I don't have to leave home to do it.
    To paraphrase a rather famous quote: I've simply no use for adventures. They're nasty disturbing things that make you late for dinner.

  • Gokudomatic - 8 years ago

    Of course I become female. Don't you see it's a matriarchy full of lesbians there?!?

  • Scourgehh - 8 years ago

    Oops, sorry guys, my internet lagged and it submitted 3 times

  • ScourgeHH - 8 years ago

    Matt, I agree, we should have a pole on characters we would like to see return to the show. Such as Trixie or lighting dust. Is there a way I could submitt a pole idea?

  • ScourgeHH - 8 years ago

    Matt, I agree, we should have a pole on characters we would like to see return to the show. Such as Trixie or lighting dust. Is there a way I could submitt a pole idea?

  • ScourgeHH - 8 years ago

    Matt, I agree, we should have a pole on characters we would like to see return to the show. Such as Trixie or lighting dust. Is there a way I could submitt a pole idea?

  • Matt - 8 years ago

    Seth must be REALLY low on ideas for these polls

  • Swash - 8 years ago

    I want to become a DRAGON and go to Equestria. Maybe a griffon.

  • Lunarevel - 8 years ago

    Also, who would even give us the option to go to Equestria? Would it be Twilight Sparkle coming from the portal or one of the other princesses bringing up the query? Perhaps it could be us getting smuggled inside by The Great and Powerful Trixie?

  • I EAT KITTENS - 8 years ago

    I want to be futanari...

  • Sweisk - 8 years ago

    I would like it if I could stay human AND go to Equestria, instead of not going at all. Don't want to species swap, because i'm sure the physical challenges of doing so would be hell both physically and mentally.

    There's a reason people who think themselves different species are thought to have a mental disability.

    Plus I'd have an advantage if I wanted to become king and stomp out the hilariously innocent villains. "Ill enslave you all and make you walk back and forth FOREVER!" "Ill make you all sad and depressed!" "Ill feed on your love" "Ill make all beings magical in nature feel weak in strength."

    Seriously, think about how funny that would be to a military veteran, or anyone competent. Tirek gets in your face to brag about his unlimited power, and then you STAB HIM IN THE FREAKING EYE! Instant kill. Discord is pretty much harmless, Sombra would be harder to combat, all you'd need is to have a strong breeze to blow away his smoke form. Might need unicorn help, or even pegasi, but it could be done. Then you just beat the crap outta him. As for chrysalis, that problem will apparently solve itself pretty easily....

    The most dangerous villain here would probably be Nightmare Moon, but that's only because me myself would be unwilling to kill her if she fought me, because I know how good she could be.... But that's what i'd do if I was pressured.

    ....

    I want to keep my human form to basically take over and kill everything that gets in my way....

  • Who dat? - 8 years ago

    Where's the "Able to switch at will" option?

  • Readingbrony - 8 years ago

    I honestly expected more people to want to change gender. Guess I'm the one of the few curious about how it'd be to be female.

  • Badly Drawn Turtle - 8 years ago

    @Gus
    Try replacing the question with “Would you want to go be an Earth Bender?” or “Would you accept an offer to man the Enterprise?”. It's easy to get stuck on the ‘ponies’ thing, but the question stirs a deep part of the human soul; it's a chance to get out of the monotony of life and see a whole new world. It's the same thing that led adventurers in times past to leave all that they knew and sail off into the great beyond. It's the same impulse that draws people to dream about being an astronaut. In this context, asking whether you want to switch genders isn't really that big a deal. It's like asking what hat you want to take on the starship.

  • Skunkfrakker - 8 years ago

    This is the best EQD poll ever.

  • Gus - 8 years ago

    I remember Seth making a poll like this way back in early 2011 and back then it did make sense, but do most of bronies in 2015 seriously still want to be turned into ponies and go to Equestria?

  • Badly Drawn Turtle - 8 years ago

    @The Master
    And that's how I found out that cats average 15 years.

  • The Master - 8 years ago

    @Badly Drawn Turtle
    You are over 135? Damn.

  • Meanlucario - 8 years ago

    I would go, but I don't think I would fit in very well.

  • Badly Drawn Turtle - 8 years ago

    We finally know the reason for the show's gender imbalance. Someone built a portal, and all of the background ponies are actually bronies.

    I'm not completely sure why I picked ‘Become Female’. I'd like to say there's a good reason for it… but I'm really just curious. If I'd been born a cat, I would be long dead by now. All nine times.

  • gyashaa - 8 years ago

    At this point 8% of females and 29% of males would change gender.

  • ShTHfan1 - 8 years ago

    I don't wanna go... Equestria kinda scares me. That whole "punishment is equal to crime" thing is really taken to the extreme. Ignore your sister, you have to send her to the moon and look at it every night for a thousand years as you're forced to raise it. Racism leads to being frozen. Having fun at others' expense leads to being turned into stone. These are EXTREME punishments! Meh... ._.

  • Paranoia - 8 years ago

    Stay male.

    I mean, have you seen the gender ratio there?

  • Frith - 8 years ago

    I wonder how the numbers break down by age?

  • Dawn - 8 years ago

    Im transgender, its a win - win situation

  • Frith - 8 years ago

    This question is giving interesting results! I hope the research contingent are giving this some thought. ^_^

  • J47fly - 8 years ago

    OMG.... DUDE if this question would've asked in human form I would totally pick become female 1 billion %. But if this question's asking for pony well then...... I'd stay at my gender.

  • don - 8 years ago

    Equestria is a target rich environment ask Big Mac & Spike :-9

  • Adridos - 8 years ago

    @Roudee: Not really. All in all, changing genders is an entirely different matter compared to becoming a mare in Equestria. It's essentially just a matter of a different voice vs uglier build (*starts running away from all the colt/stallion fans).

  • Meep - 8 years ago

    I don't even.

  • Roudee - 8 years ago

    I guess this is evidence that guys are more willing to change genders than females.

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