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Lauren Faust
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thumb|We live in a society where saying that something is for girls is the equivalent to saying that something is stupid, or saying that something isn't worthwhile. I think that's awful and I think that kind of attitude needs to be changed.
Lauren Faust (born July 25, 1974) is an American animator, screenwriter, director, and producer, best known for developing Hasbro's animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
Quotes
2012
A lifetime career goal for me has always been wanting to lift up little girls. I feel like society has contempt for girls and little girl things. When athletes are performing badly their coaches call them ladies, or when somebody is being weak they say they're crying like a little girl, that's contempt. When somebody's trying to describe something as stupid or lame they say it's for little girls or only a little girl would like that, or when something is pink or full of rainbows and hearts people jump to the immediate conclusion that it's dumb, and if adult men are liking that sort of thing there's something wrong with them, because there's something contemptuous and unworthy about girl things and being a girl...We live in a society where saying that something is for girls is the equivalent to saying that something is stupid, or saying that something isn't worthwhile. I think that's awful and I think that kind of attitude needs to be changed.
30 June 2012 at Bronycon, panel with John de Lancie, Lauren Faust and Tara Strong, about 41 minutes into the panel, footage here
2016
For reals one S1 character is trans.
27 March 2016 tweet
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Category:1974 births
Category:Animators
Category:Cartoonists from the United States
Category:Film producers from the United States
Category:Living people
Category:People from San Jose
Category:People from Maryland
Category:Primetime Emmy Award winners
Category:Screenwriters from the United States