Also, the manliest thing possible is doing something totally unmanly and not letting it threaten your manhood.
You just stole the words out of my mouth. If I can watch My Little Pony, and not worry about being gay, even my friends may mock them, good for me. I know I'm not gay, and that's enough for me.
Actually no, I haven't even tried watching it, but that is honestly just a matter of priorities getting in the way.
Speaking of such, My mom teaches a sowing class at an extracurricular homeschooling activity we go to every other week. As you might expect, she has to lug a sowing machine, basket, and ironing board to the building and back every time. One week, I was helping her, by carrying her stuff out to the van, when I ran into one of the younger girls there, who's a bit of a punk. She immediately said, "Oh, that's REALLY manly of you, Wesley, carrying a flowered sowing basket and an ironing board!"
I responded by telling her, "You know what? It is in fact manly, it just so happens I'm being a gentleman and carrying out the heavy stuff for my mother and sister!"
Manliness isn't defined by what we watch or play. It is defined by the way we treat others, whether we build them up or pull them down, by the way we treat ourselves, whether we are self centered or not, and by the way we treat hardships, whether we "take it like a man and deal with it" or in anger blow up at everyone around us.