shippers don’t become oppressed when some people in fandom find their creations and favorite genres of content to be icky. shippers become oppressed when people constantly harass them, regularly send them death threats, spread dangerous misinformation about them, force them to out themselves, draw or write porn of them, send them illegal imagery or triggering material, exclude them from their communities, heavily damage their mental health, and lead them to suicide or attempted suicide just for existing.
you have blacklisting. you have chrome extensions. you have all these tools out there that are available to help you dodge the things you don’t like. you can filter out tags and words and within an instant, all those posts you don’t take a liking to are completely gone. you can very easily avoid the content that makes you uncomfortable. i can’t very easily avoid the people constantly encouraging me to kill myself, threatening to dox me, and telling me that i’m either faking my trauma to look oppressed or that i deserved to get raped multiple times as a kid just for being anti-censorship.
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