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Quote from: kmlv23 on January 24, 2012, 12:38:16 PMQuote from: ImmortalPanda on January 24, 2012, 12:23:52 AMSome people just need to find things to be angry about. I think people just need to chill.Could not agree more. It's just a cartoon, people.Post Merge: January 24, 2012, 12:38:35 PMQuote from: stopxmotion on January 24, 2012, 12:26:12 PMQuote from: Levengale on January 24, 2012, 10:22:24 AMHaha, well, I think that anyone who is offended by any of these characters is taking the show a little too seriously... This is all.Also this.While i can't say i'm "offended". Do you guys really need to give these sneaky stabs at people who don't feel the same way as you guys do? I don't think it's that hard to understand both views...
Quote from: ImmortalPanda on January 24, 2012, 12:23:52 AMSome people just need to find things to be angry about. I think people just need to chill.Could not agree more. It's just a cartoon, people.Post Merge: January 24, 2012, 12:38:35 PMQuote from: stopxmotion on January 24, 2012, 12:26:12 PMQuote from: Levengale on January 24, 2012, 10:22:24 AMHaha, well, I think that anyone who is offended by any of these characters is taking the show a little too seriously... This is all.Also this.
Some people just need to find things to be angry about. I think people just need to chill.
Quote from: Levengale on January 24, 2012, 10:22:24 AMHaha, well, I think that anyone who is offended by any of these characters is taking the show a little too seriously... This is all.
Haha, well, I think that anyone who is offended by any of these characters is taking the show a little too seriously...
If some kid who is mentally disabled watches the show, and hears the dopey-pony being called ':muffin: Pony,' don't you think that will hurt them? The word ':muffin: Pony' does not exist in a vacuum - people are being mocked with that word, even today. It would be like if her name was a racial slur; just because your privileged self doesn't think that it's offensive, that's probably because you've had no experience with it.
It seems incredibly insensitive to the people who ARE upset to try to deny them their right to protest the thing that upsets them.
At this point, we have had those who work with disabled people as well as people with similar impairments themselves, proclaim not only a lack of offence taken, but an actual fondness for Pony. When someone comes on who says they have actually been bullied or teased as a result of this character, or witnessed an account of a child being bullied as a result of this character, it would at least give the criticisms some semblance of a purpose. But to my knowledge, the only people who are saying they're offended, are the people who have no absolutely affiliation with the people who have the traits they're affiliating Pony with, or the consequences they're linking as a result of the character.
As deeply saddening as it is, for as long as humanity exists, there will likely always be bullies and people who tease for the sake of teasing. Getting rid of Pony isn't going to change that. Banning any or even ALL aspects of entertainment that center around "different" characters is not going to change that. It's just going to mean that everybody will be fearful of creating anything that isn't strictly PC, which has already resulted in a great many of great shows being policed, and the quality of much entertainment going down-hill.
If kids weren't going around calling one another " Pony", it would just be something else. As I've said before, it's the reasons children take to bullying and teasing in the first place that requires focus, because... well, it's the root of the problem! This, however is like the white guy who says he is offended, when the black guy gets a joke thrown at him in humor - when the black guy himself was not at all offended, and actually took the joke in good humor. I see this as offence for offences sake.
I believe this is an over-reaction. The last I checked, nobody was trying to "deny" anybody the right to anything?
Look I give up. I didn't mean to offend anyone, I was attempting to merely voice my opinion the same way everyone else was. sorry.
But I feel alienated from my own fandom due to bronies.
But it was a few minutes of cameo and didnt even have any real importance to the main plot, apart from destroying town hall, leading to the Mayor needing money to fix it.
Quote from: kmlv23 on January 24, 2012, 03:43:35 PMBut it was a few minutes of cameo and didnt even have any real importance to the main plot, apart from destroying town hall, leading to the Mayor needing money to fix it.Uh that was the ENTIRE point of the episode. The town hall was broken so the mayor (and maybe others, honestly I stopped paying close attention after Pony appeared) wanted Applejack to win so she could get the money to fix it.