User blog comment:TotalDramaFan82498/Is It Bad That I've Liked Every Season?/@comment-25213010-20150307020048/@comment-5221692-20150307210021

@KingFlurry.

1. It's not really the same kind of offensiveness at all, really. Not at all.

I don't understand how people try so hard to justify Mal. Like, stop. The worst is when people try to justify him through saying Izzy, Sierra, and now SCOTT I guess, are just as offensive.

Izzy is defined as being random, outgoing, and odd. Never does she come out and say "I have a disorder". Her title name is "The Psycho Hose Beast", which is a term that just refers to a girl who's batty for attention. Izzy's gag isn't that she's a "psycho", it's that she's a wannabe attention hog.

Sierra is called a stalker a lot. But you know what... her stalker tendecies are NEVER played as a strength. It's played as a nuisance. Sierra isn't defined by her "stalker" nature. People see Sierra do something dumb and they'll say "wow Sierra is dumb". In fact, by the end of TDWTDO, she's gotten over it and develops. THAT'S how disorders should be represented. NOT demonized, but also not glorified. Once again, Sierra never says "I have a disorder".

What makes Mike offensive is not only does he come out and say "I have a disorder" and then portrays it the way he does, but the writers of the show friggin LABELED him as "The MPD" as if it completely defined him. And it does. It DOES define this one dimensional supposed "nice guy" stereotype. Mike will do something "amazing", and since his MPD is brought up so often, kids watching the show will be like "yeah, MPD is AMAZING" because Mike is supposed to be a visual representation of what MPD really is... and the portrayal is just. so. wrong.

2. Easy. If they can't handle putting that kind of content in the show... then they shouldn't have put Mike in it in the first place, because you can't try and represent only the "positive" sides of having disorders in a kid's show and expect good results.