Talk:Putting Your Hoof Down/@comment-69.171.178.18-20120326205610/@comment-69.158.37.33-20120414190349

Uh you missed the point and where Rarity does pay for the asparagus. First haggling for a better price is legal even if you're being sneaky and there's no law about raising prices. Unless all the stall owners were working together to drive up prices that is. Otherwise raising prices is completely legal.

As for Fluttershy the point was that acting like a jerk and saying really nasty things can damage your relationships and make you into a monster so you shouldn't. At the same time being to shy can lead to people taking advantage of you. This whole episode is about finding the balance between two extremes. When Fluttershy doesn't stand up for herself she has to go out and spend extra money on things she didn't have to buy and is overcharged for them. If she had insisted that Angel at least try the salad then the whole thing would have been avoided.

Personally I think that this is a very important lesson especially for young girls to learn. People will take advantage of you if you don't stand up for yourself but if you go to far because you're a girl people will start using derrogatory language to insult you. A point you made when instead of saying that she was acting like a minotaur, correct and not offensive, you instead tried to use polite language to imply a word that is often used when women act assertively. Even when what they do or say isn't any more assertive than what men would in the same situation. One of life's most important challenge for everyone is to find ways of not letting people walk over you without becoming rude or cruel. It's a skill that is very important in maintiainng friendships and what's nore approrpiate for MLP than that?