Talk:Fluttershy/@comment-3545725-20190105050002

Aside from mostly just serving as a source of cute fodder, you what I think is another problem with Fluttershy? It's the double standard. What I mean by that is it feels like her fanbase puts her on such a high pedestal that I'm willing to believe if she were to do any of the stuff the other Mane 6 get criticized for in certain episodes (ex. Twilight banning the CMC in Marks for Effort), she would either get praised for it like "Yay, she's being asserive!" or it'd get hand-waved like "Fluttershy wasn't being mean/stupid; she's just misunderstood!" Honestly, I think this line from the Abridged Series version of Marik Ishtar sums it up best:
 * "Oh, right, because when I take control of somebody to make them play a card game, that's pure evil, but when YOU do it, it's like your Mother friggin' Teresa!"