Talk:Derpy/@comment-4899875-20120625192047/@comment-76.250.36.103-20120625231709

Please watch the show before making generalizations!

Derpy is on screen for about 14 minutes throughout the first two seasons. She is ONLY clumsy and speaks oddly during a 52 second bit at the start of The Last Roundup, and possible for another 5 seconds when she drops the piano in Feeling Pinkie Keen. That is less than 5% of her airtime. Just because Bill Cosby eats a piece of watermelon on TV this evening, that doesn't mean he is a stereotype against African Americans, even if you only saw that one 30 second clip of him eating a watermelon, because he has been on TV for decades and done many other things!

I'd be willing to bet YOU yourself are clumsy about 5% of the time. What if I only consider that 5% of your life when making a statement about you being retarded. Does that mean you ARE retarded? No of course not. Whether deliberately to suit my purpose or inadvertantly because I am just foolish, if I make that judgment based on only considering the 5% or your life I am absolutely incorrect and have ignored reality to create my personal world where things can mean whatever they want regardless of fact.

If you watch the actual episodes, Derpy ACTUALLY spends MOST of her time riding on trains, helping clean up in winter wrap up (not a "screw-up who can't do anything right"), celebrating a batch of muffins, standing perfectly normally in the background and helping make the Hurricane in Hurricane Fluttershy without any clumsiness at all (again, not a "screw-up"). I notice you chose to ignore all those actions when you made your list of "many traits that a mentally disabled person might have", the ONLY one of which happens outside a SINGLE SCENE is "messed up eyes", and even that does not happen in every scene. My list of "non-retarded" traits comes from 6 different episodes, because I actually try to pay attention to the whole character when attempting to generalize about them.