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Derpy Hooves and Censorship
13 years ago
In The Mind of The Wolf
Okay, so I recently was converted to the brony side of life. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Yes, I know what you're probably thinking: "dubbayew-tee-eff, why would somebody wanna be a part of a fandom about a little girl's tv show?" Better question: why does anyone join a fandom? Because they like fapping to characters they think are hot, lol. That's not my case, honest to bacon. I was converted because two of my friends have been bronies for some time, I guess, and one was persistent enough as he showed me all kinds of parts of the fandom that I finally caved. So, Day 1 into my fandom experience as a brony and I found this youtube video about Derpy Hooves - one of the show's more minor background characters. She's clumsy, has a lazy eye, but is incredibly loveable nonetheless. Then I saw that she was being censored because TEN angry parents/people in general complained to Hasbro and said that the character - who is honestly a lot like typical sidekick-esque characters we know and love like Ed from Ed, Edd and Eddy, or Dopey from SNOW WHITE, for crying out loud - was "offensive" to those who are mentally disabled or handicapped just because she's clutzy and has a lazy eye and her voice was apparently that of kind of a "durr" thing (don't know how to explain that). Not to mention that the person making the video, who wasn't the actual voice actor but totally should be, made the video as if she actually WAS Derpy, and then in a separate edit someone did, they put it to trailer music from Dead Island...
I cried...I cried so terribly, it was so horrible... I haven't cried over a cartoon since I watched The Lion King when I was a kid. That Hasbro would be FORCED to either completely change the character or DELETE her from the episodes she's in just because of STUPID things like that called upon by the minority is just ridiculous. I don't understand what's so offensive about the term "derp" and how Derpy was portrayed as being "offensive". It's bogus! We know plenty of clumsy-but-loveable characters like Derpy! And this whole SHOW is about acceptance and love - by censoring a supposedly-handicapped pony like Derpy from it, what exactly are you showing children? That it's okay to pretend like handicapped people don't exist or to reject them because they're different? BULLSHIT.
I'm honestly very against a lot of forms of censorship, though I can see why some things are censored, but this...this is absolutely ridiculous. I've read the argument from several sides, and it just doesn't make sense, really...
Solutions considered:
1) Take Derpy out altogether
2) Edit Derpy's voice and name in the episode she's mentioned in and talks in for the first time (as HAS been done)
3) There probably was a third one somewhere in there, but hell if I know it
Granted that the changes were made ONLY to the iTunes upload of the show and that in the DVD and on tv, they are the same as the were on the original airing, but the fact that this whole shitstorm was spawned because a few people were butthurt over something stupid like this is just ridiculous.
I wanna know your thoughts. What do you guys think about the whole thing, even if you aren't into the fandom. I don't put out journals often, guys, so I'd appreciate some feedback.
Here's the link to the original video I saw, then the edit with the tear-jerker music (as if the words alone weren't tear-jerking enough):
Original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK_L.....eature=related
Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg-_.....eature=related
If you would like, there's a petition in one or both of the videos that you can sign to fight against this. It's worthwhile, even if the changes aren't much.
But then again, that's just my opinion.
From all the loyal bronies,
WE LOVE YOU DERPY HOOVES
I cried...I cried so terribly, it was so horrible... I haven't cried over a cartoon since I watched The Lion King when I was a kid. That Hasbro would be FORCED to either completely change the character or DELETE her from the episodes she's in just because of STUPID things like that called upon by the minority is just ridiculous. I don't understand what's so offensive about the term "derp" and how Derpy was portrayed as being "offensive". It's bogus! We know plenty of clumsy-but-loveable characters like Derpy! And this whole SHOW is about acceptance and love - by censoring a supposedly-handicapped pony like Derpy from it, what exactly are you showing children? That it's okay to pretend like handicapped people don't exist or to reject them because they're different? BULLSHIT.
I'm honestly very against a lot of forms of censorship, though I can see why some things are censored, but this...this is absolutely ridiculous. I've read the argument from several sides, and it just doesn't make sense, really...
Solutions considered:
1) Take Derpy out altogether
2) Edit Derpy's voice and name in the episode she's mentioned in and talks in for the first time (as HAS been done)
3) There probably was a third one somewhere in there, but hell if I know it
Granted that the changes were made ONLY to the iTunes upload of the show and that in the DVD and on tv, they are the same as the were on the original airing, but the fact that this whole shitstorm was spawned because a few people were butthurt over something stupid like this is just ridiculous.
I wanna know your thoughts. What do you guys think about the whole thing, even if you aren't into the fandom. I don't put out journals often, guys, so I'd appreciate some feedback.
Here's the link to the original video I saw, then the edit with the tear-jerker music (as if the words alone weren't tear-jerking enough):
Original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK_L.....eature=related
Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg-_.....eature=related
If you would like, there's a petition in one or both of the videos that you can sign to fight against this. It's worthwhile, even if the changes aren't much.
But then again, that's just my opinion.
From all the loyal bronies,
WE LOVE YOU DERPY HOOVES
