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Number A, wow someone actually read all that.



Letter 2, here's how a conversation with one of my friends went on this topic:



I talked with a friend about these questions of mine, and I do agree with him that this could be seen as slightly misogynistic, though that was never the intent.



He brought a good counter point to my male/female question: "it highlights the difference between harmony and discord, in this case Harmony is female whereas Discord is male."



Which led me to bring up why Discord was represented by a male entity, yielding a comment about testosterone levels in male having the tendency to be higher than in females, thus causing more violent/unpredictable behavior to come from males. (He also commented on the possible interpretation of his point to sound misogynistic here.)



But this led to me bringing up the Greco-Roman goddess of chaos Eris/Discordia. He told me that according to their origins they were explicitly based on the ASSUMPTION that women were the cause of all strife among men. While true as far as origin, I brought their interpretations in modern media to the table citing Dreamwork's Sinbad and Cartoon Network's Grimm Adventures of Billy and Mandy.



Which brought us to one end where we agreed that "There's nothing stating that a male or female has any better right to be a scion of chaos, or order, or harmony, or anything."



Which dropped us into a second argument based on male to female ratio in the cannon of the show itself, him stating that males have been grossly out numbered by females which leads to a belief that the default choice for OC's would lean more towards females. I acquiesced that this was true but brought up the point that while the ration has always been in the favor of the mares that it has moved ever so slightly towards evening out over the seasons with the introduction of increasingly more male background characters and models.



My friend brought up the question, "Where were they hiding all those males?" A valid question.



And then we jumped to whether ponies were like clown fish, I said Pinkie was "a rather fishy little clown," and then we moved on to other matters.



TL;DR: We had a good discussion with this using two different arguments and then clown fish.



Any thoughts you'd like to add?