Proship Misconceptions

🚫 Misconception:  A “proship” is a ship that involves problematic content.

👍 Reality: Proship means supporting the rights of people to ship what they want. “Proship” is a label for the person doing the shipping, not for a ship that’s problematic.

🚫 Misconception: Proshippers are people who support pedophilia and/or incest irl

👍 Reality: Proshippers are people who support the rights of people to ship what they want. Proshippers support the rights of people to ship taboo or problematic pairings like under age ships, or ships between people who are related, but proshippers support these things in fiction not real life.

🚫 Misconception: Shipping something means that you support or endorse all aspects of the pairing, and consider it ideal and romantic. 

👍 Reality: Shipping something means you want to see fiction about a relationship. It does not mean that you think toxic or problematic elements of the ship are good, healthy, desirable, or that you want them in real life.

🚫 Misconception: Proshipping means romanticizing and glorifying toxic, problematic and taboo relationships like pedophilia and incest.

👍 Reality: Proship means supporting the rights of people to ship what they want. It doesn’t mean that you endorse or support concepts from dark fiction in real life.

🚫 Misconception: If you find something hot and get off to it in fiction, it means you want to do it in real life.

👍 Reality: No, no it doesn’t. Asserting that people want to do in real life everything they enjoy in fiction is weird and gross.