My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Page 492

On March 01 2012 20:05 kastoob wrote:
Whenever I google image search the word 'derp' I see images which draw their humour at the expense of a group of disabled people who are incapable of controling their speech coherently, I think its called a cerebral palsy. It makes sense to me how someone could be offended.
While I think Ditzy is a less offensive name, I would've preferred if that scene never aired and that character never had a canon name. We were all happy when derpy/ditzy was not canon, and she didnt need to be.
I read some of the letters against the name derpy and I honestly think the arguments are logical and well thought out. They're not whining, and have good reason to feel the way they do.
Now while I am not handicapped, and I guess if you used the word derp around me I wouldn't be too offended, but then I gotta leave this quote:

Sure very few people were offended in the end, a minority, but its better that way. Atleast it wasn't a large group of people. If people can be offended enough to send mail complaining, the next likely thing to happen is bad rep from media. It could've appeared on Fox news, who knows. Hasbro is covering their asses and I honestly think they are in the right for doing so, and I would also like to think that maybe they are sensitive enough to care about not offending people.
The more important question would be whether appeasing a large fanbase is more important than avoiding alienating a minority, in regards to a show targeted at children.
Whether Derp is better than Ditzy, that answer has little value.
Just some thoughts I thought I'd leave here.

On March 02 2012 07:01 Volkspanzer wrote:


So what makes putting Derpy Hooves on TV any different than putting Ed from Ed, Edd 'n Eddy on TV, Ed the Hyena from the Lion King on the big screen, Cheese from Foster's Home, or any other archetypical dumbass, fuckwit, peabrain, or braindead character on to any other form of mainstream media?

If it's the demographic that watches this that you're concerned with, in the case of young children, I don't think they're going to make the connection of Derpy and mental retardation. In the case of the adult... why would you be offended by this, when there's plenty out there already that's offensive on PURPOSE?? The fact that this is even a topic of discussion is baffling to me.

On March 02 2012 08:28 Caumen wrote:
Oh well, my last page in my Out of bounds comic is up! I think I've removed all the small oopses everywhere (white still visible on the transparent areas, a tongue that shouldn't have the colour of her coat and a bit of colour that wasn't meant to be)

http://caumen.deviantart.com/art/Out-of-bounds-3-288059263

I hope you like it! \o/

Toodles

On March 02 2012 07:01 Volkspanzer wrote:


So what makes putting Derpy Hooves on TV any different than putting Ed from Ed, Edd 'n Eddy on TV, Ed the Hyena from the Lion King on the big screen, Cheese from Foster's Home, or any other archetypical dumbass, fuckwit, peabrain, or braindead character on to any other form of mainstream media?

If it's the demographic that watches this that you're concerned with, in the case of young children, I don't think they're going to make the connection of Derpy and mental retardation. In the case of the adult... why would you be offended by this, when there's plenty out there already that's offensive on PURPOSE?? The fact that this is even a topic of discussion is baffling to me.