Moral of the Story - Putting Your Hoof Down (Patreon)

Greetings, In this installment, I take a look at "Putting Your Hoof Down" and offer some thoughts on the reasons people might allow themselves to tolerate being treated this way, why it's unhealthy and offer a couple potential solutions. However, should this be applicable to you and you decide to make these changes; be wary of letting that pent up emotion come out in unhealthy ways. Otherwise, you'll do more harm than good. Back when this episode first aired, I was too busy laughing at the slapstick to consider it too deeply. It wasn't until I watched it a third time and then had heard people talk about "Fluttershy's out of character behavior" or the "episode's bad moral lesson" that I realized how closely I related to it (and how wrong the others were on those critiques). I spent most of my childhood up to my early teens getting picked on. I had a mentor in my older brother who gave me advice similar or more brutal than that of Iron Will. But I ended up over reacting as a primary reaction. It was a while before I got control over that. Nowadays, I often find myself giving advice like Iron Will. Though I'm generally not as intense as Iron Will anymore, I still have a bit of practice to do myself.