User blog comment:Total Drama Wiki! Wars/Week of November 30, 2013/@comment-12502636-20131201121320/@comment-1037137-20131202201716

But Mike does genuinely treat it as an issue. He was struggling with the whole thing throughout in the last two seasons, since it was taking over much of his life. And as bad as this Mal plot was executed, he treated that as a major issue as well, he's got this more toxic side emerging that he's trying to lock away once more. And given that the show apparently is being more targeted at kids rather than the adult audience it was explicitly designed for, the emotional trauma of it is likely not going to be elaborated on to the extent some want to see it as.

There's a lot of things I hate about Fresh TV's handiwork, they are not good writers and they haven't handled this show with any care in years......But despite that I still don't get the sense that this MPD portrayal was meant to be intentionally offensive.