[Twitter thread by Angry Black Changeling that reads: Low-key think any queer adult with DNI boundaries around ‘pro-shippers’ ought to do a detox consisting of education on queer history especially with respect to the fight against censorship + purity culture, and reckon with the way that – and fandom [especially terrible hot takes within spaces centred around fiction] – has furthered a surveillance culture where treating real world people like they are characters with a visible level of morality you can instantly assess + react to is the norm.
It’s not the norm. It’s purity culture at work.
You’re constantly surveilling yourself and others, and creating a level of psychological unsafety that will not keep you safe.
And let’s be serious for a sec, we know that abusers don’t come wearing “proshipper” badges.
Stats inform that they exist everywhere, and most commonly in heteronormative cultural blindspots such as family, schools, churches, institutions.
There could be overlap, but it’s a serious logical conflation to think it’s the 20 something with heart eyes over a fictional age gap you need to look out for.
That’s not to increase paranoia, but point out logical fallacies in that ‘shipping’ rhetoric.
Tbh on a personal level it’s so concerning because it’s so indicative of so many methods of coercive control: from cishetropatriarchy, to racism, to class based oppression – but it’s insidious in the way it’s creating pockets of surveillance within already marginalised + vulnerable communities who seem unable to realise that it functions on an insidious level that amounts to *thought control* + tokenistic morality.
It’s the opposite of safe.
It can be actually dangerous.
It’s doing the work of oppressors freely + willingly. /End thread]
Fandom has furthered a surveillance culture where treating real world people like they are characters with a visible level of morality you can instantly assess + react to is the norm.
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