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Derpy is the Everypony We Need

Journal Entry: Sat Feb 25, 2012, 10:43 PM

My Commission Tracking Journal: [link]


All the anti-ableism people that support censoring Derpy Hooves are the real ableists.  They are upset that someone dares to be not normal in a cartoon for children because it might offend the special needs children.  So who's being the real ableist here?  Could it be that you are the person that's offended because you feel guilt? And that you're projecting your own feelings onto others?  

Edit: My follow up response to comments of: 'think of the children' and the 'in real life why don't you care about...': [link]

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Good news and bad news.  Derpy got the voice we should have had to begin with.  The bad, uncrossed eyes and no mention of her name in the episode.  Best news: there's now fan versions of the episode that keep the original Rainbowdash conversation and animations, but keeps the new voice.  Also the dvd version of the episode is the original one, not the itunes edited version.  

Screw all of you that cry "ableism;" you can take your political correctness and collective easily bruised egos elsewhere. Derpy isn't mentally retarded or damaged.   I happen to enjoy her unique non-perfect visual appeal and clumsiness.  She reminds me that not everyone is perfect or suited for every job.  We all have quirks and have to find ways to work around them (or to put them to use).  

I was watching SFDebris's video on Reg Barkley, and I realized that Derpy is our, the fanbase's, everypony. She's the imperfect, average, 'normal' pony.  Every other character has some special talent or represents a perfect ideal.  However, Derpy does not.  She's so average and atypical of all the other ponies, its hard not to identify with her.  She IS the everypony that we want and need.  We can imagine being her in some fashion.  The isolation that comes from being different, the clumsiness that comes from growing bodies, the mistakes and hazards we all make daily.  Even her colors (while visually appealing) are average and drab with the grey coat and blond hair.  It doesn't stand out in the rainbow fluorescent colors of her peers.  

If Hasbro wasn't terrified of the politically correct morons behind ableism she might have been our Reg Barkley and could have been the 'outside-the-box' solutions side character.  Thank you so much you asshats for taking Derpy and tarnishing her with your claims of ableism.  I enjoyed having my non-perfect character.  This is why we can't have nice things.

  

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I've lived with communities of people that are too easily offended most of my life. They bring no joy into themselves and share no joy with others. I moved away to a tiny town where I don't have to deal with that kind of mentality and I love it. I just want to be left alone and hang out with close friends. I don't want to be a movement, or someone's agenda.

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`catluvr2 May 31, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
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*SEMC Jun 1, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Weee! Thank you very much. I enjoyed writing this journal.
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~Masqueadrift Feb 28, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thanks for the feature. :blush: I feel all embarrassed now. XD; I figured I should drop by and see what I might be missing, and I agree with you. Derpy is our everypony. She represents all the "different" people, although I like to think of her more as unique. She's got a special place in my heart for so many reasons. I've never once considered her mentally impaired, just horribly clumsy and maybe a bit unlucky. I also tend to refer to her as G4's version of Fizzy... except that she's a pegasus instead of a unicorn. :3
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*SEMC Feb 28, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
You're welcome.
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~Invader-Zonia Feb 27, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Honestly, Hasbro needs to see that Derpy is that little "imperfection" (not saying Derpy is bad mind you) or that "imnormality" that is in us all. She wasn't meant to offend mentally challenged people. The term "derp" (as it's used now) is to mean clumsy, a blunder, an accident (in simple terms). It was not meant to mean stupid, mentally incapible, or inept.
Now there are some mentally handicapped people at my school, say they saw the original Derpy Hooves scene, do you think they would be offended? I don't think they would, I think they would laugh and smile at Derpy (in^ the good way of course).
Derpy shows us the being "normal" is overrated and being "unnormal" is okay and we can still be loved for it.
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*SEMC Feb 27, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
I'm in your sig! wooo. have a llama :iconllama-plz:

I love being unnormal! A bit loney at times, but woohoo!
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~Invader-Zonia Feb 28, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Lol yay! *takes llama*

Yesh, being unnormal is awesome! :la:
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~mffngrffls Feb 27, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
I get your point here. But, by making journals expressing our extreme love towards her and (on some occasion) the hate we feel of the change overreacting? I see other bronies type random stuff like "how dare thy change her voice?!!!1!!"
Also, by what I've read, the accusations towards Hasbro may be misleading. I've heard rumors that it might have been apple who changed the episode. If you listen you might notice some crappy re-dubbing.
Hasbro has said that they had NO intention of removing Derpy from cannon.

My point is this, is it nesassary? Do we REALLY need to make all of these posts and art? We are rebelling against a non-existing problem that we made a huge mess and slaughtering the look of the fans in general even more.
All we have to do is say no. To stop this Derpy mess and leave it in the dust. It shouldnt be such a big deal, ok?
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*SEMC Feb 27, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
I don't blame Hasbro, I only called them out for having no balls to stand up to both parties (ableists and bronies). Derpy is safer as a background character. I'm glad you didn't misinterpret my journal for some random post about blah blah blah. actually Tabitha St Germain did the re-dub. She's Rarity's voice actor and I welcome her voice talent with open arms. It beats her heavy auto tuned version. And as I pointed out, only the iTunes version has this edit. The dvd and other media will continue to have the original. I personally like the fan dub, where they take Tabitha's voice and adds it to the original animation. So much better.

Of course its necessary. Everyone's blaming Hasbro, and the bronies, but what about all the easily offended people? I felt the need to let all of DA know that people that are easily offended shouldn't determine how the rest of us get to enjoy our entertainment. On top of that I made the point, that anyone with google skills can find whatever version they want on the Internet. We ALL won.
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~mffngrffls Feb 28, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
I forgot to mention the unedited version in my comment oops
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