Talk:Derpy/@comment-173.51.199.237-20120411200508/@comment-89234-20120413025919

I think a good place to start is that a slow, male voice has a very different effect coming from a female character. To use the original poster's description, I've never heard anyone say that Snails sounded like he had Down's Syndrome.

More broadly, there's a difference between portraying a dopey, foolish character and actually trying to make a joke out of real mental disability. They weren't trying to do that, of course -- they weren't even trying to depict a character with a mental disability at all -- but, well, we've been over that.