This means that Equestria Girls are My Little Pony characters, reimagined as teenage girls in high school. They are horses. But they are girls. They are horse-girls. They have manes. And hands.

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As seen in the trailer, the Equestria Girls are just as confused about their changing bodies as we are. "What am I?" asks Polly Sparkle, after being sucked through a tie-dye rainbow vortex. You're a purple girl-horse. You and your friends are all skinny, with long horsey legs, and clad in skirts and boots instead of pants. Sometimes it looks like you have tails, but no, that's just your long, long, long hair-mane.

Isn't getting obsessed with horses part of preteen girls exploring their sexuality? All the straddling, rippling muscles, snorting and hymen-breaking? If so, what does it mean when horses become teens? IS THERE A TEAR IN THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM?

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I haven't been this unsettled by horses since watching a Tisch School of the Arts freshmen production of Equus.

[NYT]