Regular Show - Big Winner
Why is it that every time there is a portrayal of someone with a disability in a setting for entertainment it automatically means that the writers/artists had the intent to make a mockery of the disability and EVERYONE who is connected to it either by possession or relation. A representation is never exactly like the original by definition, so don’t get all butt-hurt (to use a term those who will be reading this will be more familiar) over an attempt to bring an idea to the forefront of a children’s cartoon.In this case, the setting was a hospital. Security was focused on RD trying to escape after being accused of stealing a patient’s slippers. This allows for one to assume a patient was left unattended, and due to her mental illness had the impulse to act as is depicted in the picture above. BUT BECAUSE THIS IS A CARTOON IT MUST BE A MOCKERY OF THE MENTALLY ILL, AND FOR SHAME THAT THE CREATORS DIDN’T DEDICATE THE WHOLE EPISODE TO AWARENESS OF THOSE WHO SUFFER FROM SUCH ILLNESSES.
It IS a cartoon, so of course the subject was made light of. You don’t want a kid who has no understanding of the human body and all the faults that it possesses to be frighted by a realistic depiction of one who suffers from mental illness.
man the whole point of this is that she’s being portrayed as funny because she’s mentally ill. using a mentally ill person acting “wacky” is pretty deeply harmful because it propagates stereotypes that this is how the mentally ill act. if anything, it’s even MORE harmful that they used this in a children’s show because of how impressionable children are.
obviously the people who wrote this joke weren’t saying to themselves “ha ha, the mentally ill are so terrible!” but that doesn’t excuse that this joke was in bad taste. if anything, it’s a perfect example of how portraying the mentally ill leads to negative attitudes - certainly the writers were basing having a “crazy” pony act like this off other depictions of the mentally ill.
i mean, couldn’t they have done the same exact joke without using a mental patient pony? couldn’t they have had one of the orderly ponies do the same exact thing and be treated the same way? what exactly about this jokes make it so that they HAVE to use someone who’s clearly mentally ill?
In light of the recent Derpyhooves controversy, I respectfully request that the following animated characters be erased from existance as they are clearly disrespectful to people with mental challenges:
Ed from “Ed, Edd and Eddy”
Clumsy Smurf from “The Smurfs”
Meatwad from “Aqua…
i would be 100 percent okay with most of these characters being erased from existence as a lot of them actually are pretty harmful.
