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Ha-chan ([info]agent_hyatt) wrote in [info]unfunny_fandom,
@ 2012-02-26 16:49:00


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Lessons from bronies: Removing ableist stereotypes is intolerant!
Remember the backlash when an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic portrayed fan-favorite Ditzy/"Derpy" as "humorously" mentally challenged? Well, the concerns were heard, and the voice changed!

Aaaaand now some bronies are crying "ruined FOREVER!". To the tune of "not liking our insensitivity is intolerant!"

So, everyone who can now watch the clip without cringeing, you're harshing someone's squee, and that's terrible.


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[info]ekaterinv
2012-02-27 03:17 am UTC (link)
Her entire characterization was that she had some unspecified "disability", and they gave her a name that is an ableist slur, and made fun of her, and that was IT.

She was a caricature. To be laughed at. Because it's funny to laugh at disabled people, and disabled people are their disability and nothing else.

The idea that the writers who created that caricature would have cared to make her a character is naive in the extreme.

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