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Hate how shipping has taken the meaning of “I want this pairing to be canon” when it was never meant to be seen that way.
Back when queer pairings were not as present as nowadays, shipping two straight and same gendered characters was common place (arguably it still is and there’s nothing wrong with that). But more than that, the shipping in itself wasn’t done to perpetuate a certain “agenda”, people were doing it just for the fun of it, you know, because those characters looked cute together or they had an interesting dynamic.
I don’t understand why nowadays things should be so different. There’s nothing wrong in shipping canon lgbt+ characters with other characters that aren’t meant to be seen as love interest by the canon material, and I don’t mean only for problematic dynamics, but even fluffy ones.
Chances are these fan ships will be rare pairs anyway, but even if they wouldn’t be it’s not like people are being homophobic or tarnishing “queer representation” by enjoying a fictional scenario with fictional characters. Hell, some of those shippers, artists, and writers could be queer themselves.
Until people have an open mind and respect lgbt+ people in real life, then it doesn’t matter what they enjoy in fiction.
Fiction doesn’t brainwash anyone into being homophobic, but rather many environmental factors which have grounds in reality (like family, the church, school, the community they live in), could bring someone down that path.
So instead of trying to take the moral high ground and scream at people to get off the platform (which won’t do anything for actual queer rights, nor will it stop the content from being made), maybe antis should just say they dislike the ship. At least that would be a way more honest reason than the ones they pretend to care so much about.
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