Talk:Derpy/@comment-189.217.38.252-20120303162535/@comment-89234-20120303221732

That depends on your definition of, as you said, "retarded". The problem is not simply Hasbro being quick to back off: Most bumbling, dopey characters simply don't inspire the kind of negative reaction that Derpy did, even if the people complaining were in a minority. Being mentally handicappped isn't offensive; making fun of such a condition -- which the episode's writer did not intend to do in the slightest, but she understands the problem -- is.