Talk:Derpy/@comment-2170890-20120415135338/@comment-89234-20120416175457

Part of the problem comes when the facts get distorted For example, when complaints arise these days, it's still relatively common to talk as if the original complaints came from people who were offended at the sight of a "different" or disabled character (which is, in fact, roughly the opposite of why they actually complained) or blur the lines between "Derpy can't help the way she looks and sounds" and "The writers and designers of the show created her and didn't intend for her to be mentally disabled at all".

It's also an unfortunate fact of the world we live in that those stereotypes do exist, they are harmful... and Derpy stumbled into them.

This is the first I've heard about the show itself being at risk, though. That had never occurred to me before.