Talk:Magical Mystery Cure/@comment-26973802-20131025051443/@comment-2170890-20140107143725

"Derp" is just a made up word (though, in a sense, aren't all words made up at some point) so it has no solid meaning, but it is generally used to convey sillyness - like saying "derp" after messing up and feeling silly about it - like a more playful version of "doh!". It was never meant to convey retardation, and I personally never heard anyone use it in that context outside this whole. In a sense, the name "Derpy" can also mean that it was the animators/artists being silly or derpy that lead to her existance. Either way, it was never planned to be offensive.

That said, the rabid bronies aren't totally without blame, as if they had just taken time to explain things better rather than just posting "They hate us!" all over the place and even the "Save Derpy" protests backfired as very few of them explained why we were saving her and didn't acually say "She wasn't meant to be offensive" and could easily be twisted around to say "we don't care". The only one that even came close was the video where Derpy herself appologised, and it too had an affect as it probably got some of us emotional.

This whole thing (and, while no one seems to have on here yet, let's stop refering to this as "Derpygate", it is only a "-gate" if something got revealed, and nothing did, plus the whole gate thing is overused anyway.) could have been less of a thing if we had just taken the time to provide back up that, she was not intended to be offensive, and even provide back up how her character fits into MLP in general (all TV based generations have had at least one clumsy/accident prone pony, and all of which are in someway "ballanced" out). The fact we, and later Hasbro chose to portray her as clumsy in no way means she was meant to be stupid.

Also most of the people who Derpy, name and all, was supposedly offensive  towards where okay with it, and liked the name, but everyone else seems to forget that, though I'm not saying that there weren't some who were offended, but those who I have seen may not have meant the name, but something else.

Eitherway, if derp(y) ever meant retarded anywhere before all this nonsense started - it was no where I've seen.