User blog comment:Survivorpanda/td pet peeves/@comment-27329394-20140905140355

I hate it when people hate a character because "he/she is a bad role model for children," just as another reason to dislike them.

This doesn't happen often, but it's a stupid argument nonetheless that I occasionally see. How children feel about a character should be completely irrelevant to how you judge character. For example, Mike: why should any teenager anywhere care if kids think MPD is cool or something? Just hate him because he has it and not have to back it up by bringing up some bullcrap about how it supposedly is a bad message for kids.

If you think this is exclusive for Mike, I've seen this argument against characters like Zoey, too. I'm 99% sure this happens because they don't like the character. I don't see this argument brought up against anyone in World Tour even though the entirety of the final seven were, to varying extents, bad people, so why should Zoey be subject to this? Zoey may be my least favorite overall, but if people in the target demographic like her, I should just accept it, not say "this should be a bad character for kids" or some other lame excuse.

Oh yeah and on a similar note, I hate it when people say it is wrong to like an aspect of the show, especially regarding Mike or TDAS. Everyone is subject to their own opinions. I may not like either but I'm not going to force people to share my opinion.