Talk:Derpy/@comment-24.107.198.135-20120625022732

Yes, I agree that there was no reason to change anything on Derpy, but when you focus on the whole situation that went on here it's understandable how she could have come through offensive. I'm not saying that I like the change, who does? But the writer of the episode, Amy Keating Rogers, has even stated, "My son Soren (of Soarin' fame) is severely disabled. We do not use the word "retarded" in our house because it really has become an offensive slur. And while I knew that it was only a minority of people that defined "derpy" this way, it still upset me that I was the writer that put that name out there. It was painfully ironic and goes against the fact that I'm an advocate for the disabled." [ http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/02/amy-keating-rogers-response-to-derpy.html]

Of course it upset everyone that our beloved Derpy was changed, but I'm sure Hasbro reads statements like ours, and she's bound to be in a future episode. After all, how else do you think we would have gotten Derpy without them? ^-^