Talk:Spike/@comment-68.160.246.12-20120414173308/@comment-222.127.87.75-20120415015518

^ You're right, she didn't mean to be insulting to Spike with the way she treated him but regardless whether Spike was upset or not, you don't talk to your friend in that manner.

If she really was treating Spike like a child, then she was still treating him as an inferior relative to herself. Look at Twilight and RD. They were both equally worried about Spike but they didn't treat Spike like a weak child. They treated him like a friend who they were worried about because his life was potentially in danger and not because he's an unsupervised minor.

Besides, Rarity doesn't treat Sweetie Belle (or any CMC member) that way. I still think she treated Spike like her pet cat, Opal.