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Voltron: Legendary Defender and the Ethics of LGBT+ Representation
Voltron: Legendary Defender and the Ethics of LGBT+ Representation
With the controversy surrounding the seventh season of Voltron: Legendary Defender, I offer my thoughts on what the obligations are for creators who are planning LGBT+ representation and did Voltron meet those obligations?
Warning: Spoilers for Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 7
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The Equestrian Exclusion: LGBT Representation in Friendship is Magic
The Equestrian Exclusion: LGBT Representation in Friendship is Magic
Politics, it has been said, is the question of “who gets what, when, and how”*. We’re often conditioned to think about this in terms of materialistic goods and the distribution of resources. Who should pay more taxes? How do we pay for healthcare? What’s better, guns or butter? Yet, often the most divisive but fundamental questions in politics is the who. Who gets to vote? Who gets to run for…
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God, been like a year since I did any kind of post on my analysis site, but recent events and discussions with friends prompted me to write this.
Welp, officially have dropped the “Analysis is Magic” stuff since I haven’t done any MLP analysis in like a year and have no real plans to start up. Doesn’t mean I won’t do articles if I feel like it and keeping the Wordpress, but just figured no point keeping up the stuff if not using it.
Plus, I got permission from @cprartsalot to use their Hamilchu artwork for an icon and I was not gonna miss that chance. I mean, Pikachu and Hamilton in one? Can’t really think of anything better to represent me XD.
"Slice of Life" Reaction: Some Likes and Disappointment
As usual, I’m a little late to the punch in writing up a reaction to the 100th episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic entitled “Slice of Life”. The basis of the episode, a focus on the large cast of side and minor characters throughout the series getting ready for the wedding of Matilda and Cranky Doodle Dandy, seemed a rather fun idea. In practice, the episode was a big shout out to the…
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Can Hypocrisy Be Moral? The Case of Starlight Glimmer
Can Hypocrisy Be Moral? The Case of Starlight Glimmer
At the end of the two part season premiere “The Cutie Map”, Starlight Glimmer is exposed as having never given up her own cutie mark despite her claims that possession of a cutie mark leads to fighting and breaking friendships. This, of course, turns the entire town against her as they call out her “hypocrisy.” As she points out, however, it wouldn’t have been possible to remove every-ponies’…
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Is Starlight Glimmer a Communist?
Is Starlight Glimmer a Communist?
The moment I saw the trailer for the Season 5 premiere of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, I figured I was going to have to do a post like this. A villain goes around talking about equality and everybody being the same? In the culture of the United States, with its histories of “Red Scares” and the Cold War behind it, this sort of rhetoric immediately equates to “communism” or “socialism”,…
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Nozick's Room: Steven Universe Meets The Experience Machine
Is it possible that the episode “Rose’s Room” of Steven Universe may be able to help us determine what it is that we find worth living for? In this article, I compare Steven’s experience in Rose’s Room with the famous ethical thought experiment of Robert Nozick’s “experience machine” to explore this question.
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The Reformation of Discord: A Utilitarian Story - Part II
In Part I of this two part exploration of Discord’s reformation, I drew upon utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick to argue that Discord’s reformation could be viewed as a story of the conflict between egoism and utilitarian ethics. Sidgwick argued that this conflict was logically irreconcilable as the decision to be one or the other came own to one decision: the willingness to put your own…
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