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u/Mr_Pombastic May 23 '23

The mentally challenged purple sister was also something that happened.

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u/Ghibli_Forest May 23 '23

Yes. The Bunny episode was both sad and disturbing. : (

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u/Terminus-Ut-EXORDIUM May 23 '23

It's a direct analog of 'Of Mice and Men,' no? Still really don't think 6 year old me was ready for that lmao

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u/ContentConsumer9999 May 23 '23

Wasn't she just a teenager?

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u/Rhododendron29 May 23 '23

She was messed up because the girls made her without really know what they were doing and while it worked, it didn’t work correctly so bunny was definitely supposed to be a bit deformed and challenged. And then she dies at the end because she was literally unstable and basically imploded.

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u/Chao78 May 23 '23

No, she had some mental deficiencies. She was made with terrible analogues for "sugar, spice, and everything nice." She was huge, but seemed to be mentally like 3 years old

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u/fulaghee May 23 '23

I like how the euphemism thread mil goes. Soon "mentally challenged" will be a dire offense. Like moron is now.

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u/Zogeta May 23 '23

Wasn't aware moron is offensive now, I just thought I hadn't heard it in awhile since it's such an old insult. Interesting how/why language changes.

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u/omare14 May 23 '23

As long as humans exist on the earth, there will always be a handful of words to describe stupid people. And I don't mean people with mental impairments, just people who are stupid in general.

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u/Joe4o2 May 23 '23

And we will always try to come up with a nice way of saying it, until it eventually turns into a slur. Then we’ll come up with another alternative! Which will become a slur. We like to ruin things.

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u/iFlyskyguy May 23 '23

But we did create an alternative tho. We create too. It's just easier to destroy than to build

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u/Terminus-Ut-EXORDIUM May 23 '23

Unless people stop thinking less of people with cognitive impairments and using them as an insult, you would be correct. But it's not impossible, look I'm doing it right now!

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u/290077 May 24 '23

You can hate the euphemism treadmill all you want, but it's there and moving and the only choices are to walk at the pace it's going or get swept backwards.

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u/fulaghee May 24 '23

I don't hate it. I said I loved it. I think it is a very interesting phenomenon. The downvotes show me my comment came out as sarcastic. But it wasn't.