I was going to make this a forum topic, but I decided to just make this a blog post. I held off for a while, but I just had to get it off my chest.

Okay, so you all watched the episode One Bad Apple, right? Where Babs Seed comes from Manehatten to visit the Cutie Mark Crusaders? Cutting to the chase, when I was in a livestream, there were several people who commented after the episode that Babs had no reason to be mean at all. It was brought up several times basically saying "I was bullied as a child. That's why I'm not a complete douchebag." I tried explaining it there, but nobody listened to me, as per usual.

I want to get this out of the way. I know what it's like to be bullied, both verbally and physically. Every day, I would be bullied about how I'm fat or a teacher's pet (they used much stronger words than this). They would punch, kick, spit, mock, tease, beat and cut me, while they tamper with or break my stuff. I'm not even exaggerating.

Anyways, this is how Babs felt. She was being bullied for something she can't control, namely her lack of a Cutie Mark. Have you actually seen what teachers do to bullies? Go ahead, take a wild guess. If you guessed "punish," you're dead wrong. Sure, some schools WILL punish bullies, but I have yet to find one. All they do is lecture them for 20 minutes. Once they're finished, they go right back to harrassing everyone. Tell me that you would be able to stand that for over eight years, or however long you have to stay at the one school.

I don't know about you, but after a week, I start to feel emotionally worn out. I get so sick and tired of the feeling of anger or sadness. Every day, I feel like I had run a mile just to end up in the same spot.

Now, you might say "Oh, well if you just pretend not to care, they'll stop." This is also a dead wrong fact about bullying. Before, it might have worked. But now, they seem to know that they're doing. It's impossible to keep a neutral face while someone is kicking you or jabbing a plastic fork into your leg. Your eye will at least give off a few drops of tears. They know that you hate them. That's why they keep on doing it. They think it's funny for people to cry or get angry. They think that you're a helpless little being who can't stand up for themself.

The only way you can deal with the bully is not to ignore them, or to tell a grown up, but it's to throw it right back, to bully THEM. I'll admit, it's not the way you're taught at home or at school, but there really is no other option, unless you can somehow convince your parents to pull you out if school. Even if they did, you would still have to go to another one, where even more bullies will be, who could be potentially worse.

So now, we have Babs. She was put on a train to Ponyville to meet her cousin, Applebloom. This is a real immediate change, from a school full of bullies to a friendly town like Ponyville. Just at the exact moment when Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon came in, she went to join them, trying to completely resist being bullied. Also, going back to the "I was bullied as a child" remark, let me tell you all this: Some of you may be adults, and were bullied as a kid, but Babs is still a child. You don't really start to think about it until you're older.

I thank you for bearing with me. As I said, I really couldn't hold it in anymore.