Background Pony #D746
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It's just a joke, or perhaps an analogy of sorts like someone above suggested, don't take it so seriously. Obviously if a stallion ascended, they'd be an alicorn prince.
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[@Scrounge":](/1269846#comment_5526744
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Nonsense, of course it does, don't be ridiculous. Starswirl would have become an alicorn prince if he had understood friendship, but Celestia specifically mentioned that he did not. Either way, gender is completely and utterly irrelevant to alicornhood, because most of the ponies who have it got it through being a good and benevolent leader and stuff like that. Only reason Shining Armor doesn't have it is because he's prince consort, and while we don't know much about Blueblood, he likely inherited his, perhaps from the unicorn royalty bloodline.
You can damn well be sure that either gender can be an alicorn. It would be incredibly, overwhelmingly sexist to suggest otherwise, not to mention it would completely and utterly destroy their legitimacy, because genitals has no relevance whatsoever to what you need to make a good leader. Ascension is earned (it would seem they can be born naturally too, who knows what the deal with that is, but that's for another topic), and you'd have to be quite delusional to think that gender would matter at all for it.
I don't necessarily expect to see one in the show itself as long as Hasbro's marketing department is fully convinced that princesses sell toys and thus need to be pushed at every opportunity, but that certainly doesn't mean they don't exist, and there's no reason whatsoever for them not to. That would shit all over and heavily contradict the messages of the show, which involves gender equality, even if it's not in your face about it. And it wouldn't fit the setting at all, because Equestria is quite clearly gender-egalitarian. There's no indication whatsoever of either gender being advantaged or dominant, there's no gender roles, they have de-jure and de-facto gender equality, and there are ponies of both genders in all sorts of different walks of life, and so on.
On another note, this is an awfully long reply on a picture about a minor joke.
It's just a joke, or perhaps an analogy of sorts like someone above suggested, don't take it so seriously. Obviously if a stallion ascended, they'd be an alicorn prince.
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[@Scrounge
Nonsense, of course it does, don't be ridiculous. Starswirl would have become an alicorn prince if he had understood friendship, but Celestia specifically mentioned that he did not. Either way, gender is completely and utterly irrelevant to alicornhood, because most of the ponies who have it got it through being a good and benevolent leader and stuff like that. Only reason Shining Armor doesn't have it is because he's prince consort, and while we don't know much about Blueblood, he likely inherited his, perhaps from the unicorn royalty bloodline.
You can damn well be sure that either gender can be an alicorn. It would be incredibly, overwhelmingly sexist to suggest otherwise, not to mention it would completely and utterly destroy their legitimacy, because genitals has no relevance whatsoever to what you need to make a good leader. Ascension is earned (it would seem they can be born naturally too, who knows what the deal with that is, but that's for another topic), and you'd have to be quite delusional to think that gender would matter at all for it.
I don't necessarily expect to see one in the show itself as long as Hasbro's marketing department is fully convinced that princesses sell toys and thus need to be pushed at every opportunity, but that certainly doesn't mean they don't exist, and there's no reason whatsoever for them not to. That would shit all over and heavily contradict the messages of the show, which involves gender equality, even if it's not in your face about it. And it wouldn't fit the setting at all, because Equestria is quite clearly gender-egalitarian. There's no indication whatsoever of either gender being advantaged or dominant, there's no gender roles, they have de-jure and de-facto gender equality, and there are ponies of both genders in all sorts of different walks of life, and so on.
On another note, this is an awfully long reply on a picture about a minor joke.