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// Revelations From a Likely Source 
// Story: I'm Offensive and I Take Offense 
// by Gapeagle 
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Starlight watched with her ears perked up as a small horde of ponies ran towards her. She was not afraid of them coming to attack her as their dull colors showed that they were equal ponies. So instead she waited on the park bench she was seating on. They excitedly rushed over to, carrying a disgruntled light blue pony in purple magician clothes.

"We found her!" one yelled to Starlight. "We found the witch!"

They all stopped before her, barely containing their glee. The annoyed pony they were carrying squirmed in their grasp, but sighed as she could not escape.

"The Great and Powerful Trixie demands to be freed!" she squealed.

Starlight blinked her eyes in confusion. "Witch?"

"Yeah!" they all triumphantly confirmed.

Starlight rolled her eyes. "I told you guys to go after the rich, not a witch!"

"Oh..." they said with new understanding.

"But she's still a witch!" one equal stallion shouted.

"Yeah!" the others joined him.

"She flaunts her unicorn privilege!" a mare said.

"She makes us pay to show off her own magic!" another said.

"She turned me into a parasprite!"

All eyes turned on the stallion who shouted the last words. Upon realizing what he said was a bit confusing since he was a pony, he nervously stroked his leg and looked down, ashamed.

"I...I got better..."

Starlight sighed and turned her attention to the witch. "Is this true?"

The witch huffed indignantly. "I am the Great and Powerful Trixie! Trixie's powers are awe-inspiring! Glorious! Fantastic!"

Starlight basically ignored her and took the witch's hat off, revealing a unicorn horn. The equalist leader then shook her head.

"Such arrogance and racism. You make others pay you money so that you can do things that the other poor races can't? How despicable."

"Trixie does not understand..."

"Nor do I expect you to, you ignorant buffoon," Starlight insulted. "Go ahead, my fellows, do what you want with her. Make her an example of unicorns who could care less for other pony races."

"But...But Trixie does so for a living! You cannot be serious?"

"Then you exploit other ponies for your own petty gains!" Starlight lectured. "You aren't worth the dirt on my hoof. Begone!"

The equal ponies cheered and carried the squirming Trixie away. Starlight sipped from her morning tea and quietly watched her ponies do her bidding. With one less racist unicorn out of the way, the day was already looking bright. It wasn't even noon yet.

"Better get moving again, otherwise the Princess of Bigotry will find me..."

She slowly got up from the bench. Her body was severely sore from the beating she took from the Royal Guards just the other day. Luckily the equalist backlash on the internet prevented her from being locked up in the Hollow Shades Asylum. You didn't know they had internet? Well, then you haven't seen Starlight's blog site. What? I'm not being a good narrator? Alright, sorry.

While whistling an innocent tune, Starlight walked around the Ponyville park. The spring morning had attracted many young couples to the pleasant outdoors. The lover ponies spotted the park, some at flowers, some at benches, and some just resting on the grass. 

"Mare and stallion....mare and stallion, mare and stallion, guhh..." Starlight groaned.

She then stopped immediately. Her eyes slowly turned to a pony couple that were sitting on a nearby bench. It was Lyra and Bon Bon! The openly lesbian couple of Ponyville! Starlight beamed at the romantic scene and hid behind a bush. As she watched them engage in dialogue she could not hear, she gushed over how beautiful it was to see such open love. These two mares were heroes!

Starlight turned back to see how those lowly cissexual couples. They didn't know true love. They didn't understand genders or sexes enough to see what true beauty was! Starlight wanted to raise her muzzle at them, but that was offensive to Minotaur cultures, so she instead stuck her tongue out and returned to watching the cute lesbian couple.

"Oh, they must be so oppressed here!" Starlight pitied them. "I've not seen any other same-sex couples in this bigoted town. They must be ridiculed, insulted, and treated homophobically by those fools who don't understand. They are so brave to sit there, holding hooves, and ahh, it's so equal..."

Putting them on a pedestal before she even met them, Starlight could not contain herself. She jumped out from the bush and trotted over to the couple. Lyra and Bon Bon were chatting merrily away and did not notice the pink unicorn until she had sat down right in front of them. They both gave her confused looks as she smiled excitedly back.

"Uhh...can we help you?" Bon Bon asked nervously.

Starlight nodded and summoned a small notepad and a quill. "Oh yes! I...I felt like a short interview with you two would be splendid! I just admire your openness and ability to deal with the homophobic oppression that is rampant in this town."

The two mares looked at each other before rubbing the back of their necks. 

"Uhhh..." Lyra started. "We're not oppressed."

Starlight dismissed her with a hoof. "Oh don't worry. You don't need to hide anything. I'm a good and decent pony. I do not judge you by sexual orientation. I just think you two are heroes for being proud of your homosexual lifestyle!"

"Isn't that judging us by our sexual preferences?" Bon Bon asked.

"'Preference' is not the right word, but no, it's not. Judging is when one perceives somepony negatively before engaging in conversation. That or performing microaggresssions because of a pony's outward appearance or ethnic group," Starlight smiled.

"No," Lyra rolled her eyes. "Judging is perceiving someone good or bad based on little to solid evidence-"

"Oh never mind," Starlight cut her off, "you understand."

Bon Bon was about to speak, but Starlight cut her off too.

"So! How is it battling the everyday microagrresions and hate speech of this bigoted society? What brave words do you two have for other lesbian/gay/bisexual ponies out there? How do you cope with such ignorant ponies?"

"We're not heroes based on our sexual preference," Bon Bon was bemused.

"There you go using that word!" Starlight started to become annoyed. "It's not politically correct! So! I am on your side. I know you two are not used to ponies being on your side. I'm trying to help others who struggle in this damn land of Equestria."

"Uhh, like I said, we're not oppressed," Lyra shrugged. "We're not victims here."

"You don't have to hide behind lies. I am utterly trustworth-"

"We know! We're speaking the truth!" Bon Bon yelled.

"You are?" Starlight blinked in confusion. "But...But how could you? Everypony here is so ignorant and disgusting! You must have been called names and you've must have been denied service!"

Lyra nodded. "We have."

"Then you are discriminated against and oppressed!" Starlight told them.

"If being called some names is being 'oppressed,' then I guess we can answer your questions," Bon Bon chuckled. "How do we deal with names? Pfft, we ignore them. Easy. Everypony knows Lyra and I are a couple. Most just shrug. Sure there's that one jerk, but who cares about her? No one really cares."

"And Mr. and Mrs. Cake didn't make a wedding cake for us," Lyra added. "But guess what? We just went to another baker. The Cakes are great and nice to us. We still talk to them. Yeah, they seem a bit off when we're around, but will they learn that we are no different if we refuse to talk or hang out with them? Of course not! Why make a gap when we could easily build a bridge?"

Bon Bon started to laugh some more. "There's one who oppresses us: Rainbow Dash. Oh my Celestia. We she found out, she called us 'fags' for like a month. It was hilarious."

"Oh yeah!" Lyra laughed. "Rainbow's actually homophobic."

"Rainbow? But she's lesbian!" Starlight gasped.

"Her?" Bon Bon almost spat. "Please, she's straighter than a beanpole."

"'Straight' is not the right word!" Starlight growled.

Bon Bon ignored her. "But we don't care. Let her insult us. I call Lyra a fag all the time." She pointed a hoof at her marefriend. "Faggot."

Lyra couldn't hold back a chuckle. "No you're the fag!"

"How can you two call yourselves that?!" Starlight was in shock. "It's a derogatory word for homosexuals! It's not politically correct!"

Bon Bon looked at Starlight. "Just because we're lesbians doesn't mean we're politically correct."

Starlight body froze in utter shock. Her mouth was slightly open and her eyes wider than a barn door. She was still and completely unmoving. Like a statue, she slowly leaned to one side and fell over on the grass. Her body and face remained in the exact position. The notepad and quill fell to the ground as her magic let go of them.

"Did we break her?" Lyra asked.

"She's a queer one," Bon Bon commented.

"Pfft, she's freakin' retarded."


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