So as I'm sure the MLP fans have noticed, ever since Derpy appeared in an episode and actually talked, a group of people have actually started a petition to either remove her entire, including her appearance in that episode, or to change her name and/or appearance to be less "offensive" -.-

I'm also sure many people that follow me know that I am a Sally supporter and try to stick up for her whenever haters come rolling around.

So the question is, how are these two even remotely connected? Well, while both of these characters may have controversy and haters for different reasons and while neither character deserves to be hated, the main issues stems from one thing...they're female.

What do I mean by this? Well let's look at Derpy first. In the show we already had a "slow" pony by the name of Snails, who has done a number of destructive things in the show, including sicking a giant killer bear onto the village. However, even though he's essentially a male version of Derpy, nobody cared about his existence to the point of raising a ruckus and wanting him removed from the show. Heck, nobody even seemed to care about Ed from Ed Edd and Eddy either, wonder why.

People said they wanted her name changed too, finding it offensive. However, they didn't even bother to research that Derpy refers to the positioning of her eyes and not to her mental abilities at all. Heck, we don't even know if she's "special" or not, or just clumsy, people simply created their own truths and ran with it.....to the point of starting a petition.

You'd think people would like the fact that a special pony is being treated as normal and living a normal life, but I guess certain people would rather try and keep special people out of shows entirely and act like it's a taboo topic...I think that says more about the people supporting this petition more then anything to do with Depry herself.

It's a show about friendship and acceptance for goodness sakes, what's wrong with people these days?

As for Sally, I've heard quite a few reasons for hating her, many of them double standard nonsense and others being entirely unfair. The easiest one to disprove is the way she dresses. Why do people follow the belief that male mobians can be naked while females have to be fully clothed? Cause they have curves? Seems kinda pointless since they have fur so you see nothing extra then what you'd see from a lady wearing a leotard...or are you saying the female body is something to be ashamed of? As far as how she's drawn in the comic, most of the time she's drawn in a chibi form and only every so often does she take a more human form. Either way, isn't that something to hate the artist for instead of Sally? Why hate her because of how someone chooses to draw her? If she was male this wouldn't even remotely be an issue to even talk about. Don't bother bringing up that it's cause the males have animal shapes while females have curves, there are plenty of male characters without clothes that have rather human looking forms, try looking up Drago for one.

Another reason people pick on Sally is how a handful of the male characters seem attracted to her. So, why is that a problem again? Exactly how many female characters are attracted to Sonic? Doesn't he have a ton of people attracted to him as well? Why must Sally be singled out for this? Let's also not forget that virtually anyone besides Sonic that liked her is currently in or was in a relationship with someone else. None of the love interests are pining for Sally and waiting in the shadows to strike, they've started their own relationships with other people.

On the same line, people hate her for the simple fact that she's trying to date Sonic, when some claim he only belongs to Amy or that Sonic shouldn't date at all. Amy didn't even exist in the SatAM show and that's what the comic is based on. This is also not the video game Sonic another one entirely, an alternate dimension if you will. Why are you trying to demand that this Sonic be stuck to the same constraints as the video games when even SEGA themselves want the video games and Archie comic to be separated entirely?

A third reason and the last I'll bring up is the Sally slap that occurred in 134, which I believe is the main reason for why so many people hate Sally in the first place and then struggled to find other reasons to hate her after. For starters, she was ridiculously out of character in that comic and the next few issues after while Bollers was the writer in charge. None of the other writers had Sally act like this so it's safe to assume that Sally wasn't herself in those issues and was acting like someone else entirely. It's quite similar to when someone writes a mini series for Marvel or DC and turns Batman into a murderous psycho or Superman into a depressed emo due to losing his powers. Do you hate them forever now because of how they acted in those few issues, or do you go based on their true personality that you know is how they really are like?

Why hate the character when it's the writer that makes them do the stupid things? Sally is a good person that has lived her life trying to bring peace and happiness to her people, that while having good points is a believable person and has her own weaknesses, how can you hate a character like that? Even after Penders and even Flynn turned Sally back to normal people continued to struggle to find reasons to hate her...I just don't get that. Don't hate the character, hate the writer that ruined the character.

Anywho, that was a long rant and grats to anyone that read the entire thing @-@; If anyone disagrees and still wants to hate either of these two awesome ladies, feel free to post a comment below and I'd be more then happy to have a civilized conversation about it. Just be sure to try and bring up actual points and reasons and not simply something like "She sucks, end of story"

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