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But she’s so cute! And very scary when she’s mad…  
^_Akzent

Starlight disagrees.

Yay there is nothing wrong here! It’s just a normal thing now. :D

@Derpy Whooves  
If I speak anymore on the topic this whole discussion will go very left and not be well suited for this particular comment thread, so I’ll just say that I’m glad they’ve taken that stance and it does mean something to me, but I have personal views on the matter that are more complicated than I can get into here.
 
Aside from that, I enjoy the picture and what it represents, I hope everyone here is having a great day, I hope all that are celebrating pride are having a good time with it despite the circumstances with the world, and I hope you continue the good work being my favorite mod on this site (no shade to the other mods, who do good work in their own right)!

That may not be true, but hey, business is business!

@Krickis  
They have really made it one of their focuses:
 

@Derpy Whooves  
Interesting and cool to know. I’m more cynical about corporations than you, I think, but it makes me feel good that so much of my money went to a company that ‘walks the walk’, so to speak.

@Lurks-no-More  
Yup, that’s exactly what I had in mind with my comment. I think it’s important to remember that PR stunts are just that, but I’m old enough to remember when this kind of stuff never happened. I remember the first big PR stunts for pride being a huge deal, back in the 00s. And I’ve watched them become the norm since then. It’s been great to see, because even though I firmly believe Hasbro wouldn’t dare support pride if they thought it would wind up a net loss for them, the fact that they know it won’t shows the changing of minds very well.
 
 
@Background Pony #E31D  
I’m optimistic we’ll continue to see strides in equality. As you say, it’s becoming more common for people to come out of the closet, which makes us realize just how common queer people are. I think we’re a ways off from everyone’s rights actually being equal, but I do think we’re well on the track to getting there!

@Lurks-no-More  
It’s not just dollars, Hasbro has a lot of employees who are LGBTQ, and they want to support their teams. It’s a cornerstone of their corporate identity.

@Krickis  
@Lurks-no-More  
I hope equality on race and sexual orientation increases in the future! About the sexual orientation thing we may see more LGBT+ people in the next years/decades/centuries (because being inside a closet won’t be necessary anymore). Everybody’s rights will be equal!

I understand what it suppose to mean but dunno, I have flashbacks of communist Starlight’s village.  
“Equality” is poor choice of word here.

I love that the favorites, the score, and the number of comments are all equal.  
Oh wait now they’re not because I said something. :p

@Krickis  
A gay guy on a forum I frequent pointed out that this is a sign of the queer folks winning: that big, faceless corporations see chasing queer dollars, and doing things like supporting the pride month, as profitable. And, importantly, that doing this is more valuable than what they may lose from angry bigots taking their business elsewhere. Things are far from perfect, equality-wise, but LGBTQ+ people are increasingly mainstream in America, and that’s a big deal. :)

A nice gesture. I have my nitpicks and preferences on how I’d prefer it to be done, and I do realize this is mostly a PR stunt to get queer dollars, but all the same, I’d prefer safe PR stunts like this being the norm than silence.

@Background Pony #E31D  
All lives may matter, but money always matters more.

@Derpy Whooves  
Yup. I like when large corporations remember that there are minorities that buy their products and decide to do something good about it.

@Background Pony #E31D  
They do tend to do something each year. It’s a large part of their corporate mission.

I’m so happy that Hasbro has remembered that we are in Pride Month! Let’s all remember that there are a lot of LGBT+ people both in the fandom (like me, a bi guy) and in the production teams for FiM, EqG and (likely) PL, so complaining doesn’t make any sense.

@Background Pony #D1DB  

 
aaaaaaaand nothing. :P

@Background Pony #3BEB  
It doesn’t exist?

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The heck does that even mean?