To answer the question in the picture. Diamon Tiara and Silver Spoon were the reason she became a bully thus by bullying them she would have eliminated herself from the group. Breaking the point of the episode to begin with. But I do agree with an unrealistic ending, speaking as a eight year victim of bullying. But the bullying concept is kind of a paradox. My experience have taught me that school does jack shit and if your the criminal if you try and fight back. Some believe that it is the bully’s parents that are the problem and they don’t do jackshit either. The only outcome i see of stopping them is by fighting fire with fire, but as previously mentioned it puts you in trouble…

^LOL U MAD THO?!

Yeah, this episode was a real mess that bitt itself i the ass. I was bullied most of my younger years and was actually really offended by this episodes stupidity. I don’t care if itäs a 20minute show. Simpsons, South Park, heck even Spongebob manages to deliver smart and valuable lessons in that timespan. And if you gonna make a episode about a subject as complex and often horrendous as bullying without taking time to analyzing it in favour of some awful song, atleast don’t fucking make it about how much better it is to be the bully! Fucking stupid episode…

Yeah the characterization wasn’t really spot on there, but I guess those are the limits of a 20 minute children’s cartoon.
 
I do agree that asking for your parents’ help is not a bad thing. The first rule, never submit to playing by the other person’s rules when those rules they offer are explicitly unfair. That’s how real-life Diamond Tiaras have power, see: by being the ones dictating the rules to their social circle through a mixture of pushiness and exploiting other kids not knowing any better. Laughing at their attempt to make their rules apply to you is the first step.

That was something I thought of, yesterday: Babs hated being picked on, yet she showed no remorse about bullying her cousin and friends just to avoid being bullied, herself. She almost seemed to enjoy teasing the cutie mark crusaders.

Becuz she’s dumm and doesn’t understand the true profiteering aspect of bullying. SILVER IS THE WEAK LINK IN THE DUO, EVERYPONY SHAKE HER DOWN FOR HER BITS!!!

Just because something works doesn’t necessarily make it right. It’s generally better to do things the right way, and if you end up getting the shaft for it, well, at least you don’t have to live with the knowledge that you wronged someone else.
 
That said, I’ve never been effected by bullying: that’s not to say that I haven’t been bullied. I just sort of distance myself from the torment, and move on with my life. Whatever it is, is in the past, and if it isn’t it simply will not last. I see no use angsting over it. Call it dissociation if you like.

@professor_of_hoers  
It may have worked in your case but not in every bullying situation.  
I tried fighting back my own bullies. The next weeks they we’re attacking me more furiously then ever.

Sorry to hear about your past bullying and I’m glad it worked out well. I’m not saying telling your parents or adults never works. Just that you can not always depend on it. I know in my life it was so prevalent that trying to tell the adults never solved the problem permanently and sometimes even made things worse. Certainly it’s a good first step and should be encouraged. Unfortunately, it may not work. Bullying, as we’ve said, is complex. It’s always a dynamic and shitty situation without a simple fix.

@professor  
About that “telling your grown-ups doesn’t work”, admittedly I wasn’t really picked on a lot in my life, though there was this one time where it was simply too much for me.  
Told my mom, made her promise me, to be discreet about it. She was not. Though I am actually thankful for that, since she pretty much tore those guys a new one and after that I honestly can’t recall any major bullying-incident.  
But like you said, it really depends on the victim and the bully, since this is a really complex issue.  
And I think I actually got of really easy in that regard, since I was never bullied physically in my entire life so far, and verbally thinking back, those were rather… silly insults that were said… AAAND I wasn’t an angel either… XP

Fuck you 9gag for making these shitty macros even more meaningless and irritating.

because that wouldn’t be a very good episode :I

“He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”  
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Bullying is an odd thing. I was picked on in Junior high so badly that I was suicidal but then I grew to be a VERY LARGE person, grew my hair out long, a beard, and wore all black and a trench coat all the time and everyone thought I was going to murder them. I also became kind of violent.
 
I guess my point is when it comes to being bullied you never really know how you’re going to respond or what psychological measures you’ll take in order to mete out a semblance of safety in your life.
 
I think the moral “just tell the grown ups and it’ll all work out” is kind of trite and bullshit. In my experience that doesn’t really work and bullies will continue to exist all throughout life. At some point you will have to deal with it yourself in whatever way suits your moral compass.
 
Fighting sucks. Having to fight is absolutely terrible. However, sometimes you just have to defend yourself. You’ll never see it from a kids cartoon but it’s pretty much true.

Isn’t that kind of what she did at the end?

at the end she learned to stand up to bullys…

Wanna join our crusaders babs?  
Okay!  
My Little Pony…

Because that always works.

Cause this just creates a massive loop that scars the individual for life.

Going for the low hanging fruit.