Here’s a sampling of the many women who appear in the background of this documentary, whose stories we never hear.

Would these women talk about feeling erased? Would they talk about being harassed at conventions? Would they share the experiences of a fan who told me just days after returning from BronyCon, where this documentary spends much of its time, that she kept getting interrogated by male fans wanting to know what she was doing in their space? ….

The only female member of the brony fandom that the documentary profiles, Nadine Neumann, is briefly shown creating and selling replica ponies; but the majority of her time on-screen is explicitly to discuss her relationship with a male member of the fandom. Even as a desperately needed representative of female My Little Pony fandom, she’s still called on to reinforce this documentary’s message of male heterosexuality.

“It was my job to bake and give out the cupcakes,” she says of her brony meetup.

“When she finally came, she had muffins,” her boyfriend Ben echoes, “…and I thought, ‘Yes, nice girl.”

- “My Little Pony: Sexism Is Magic”