pinker-and-blacker:

blackheart-biohazards:

Stop the spread of misinformation!

◾ Proship is a stance that means “ship and let ship”.

◾ Proship is a stance that means “don’t like, don’t read”.

◾ Proship is a stance that means anti harassment.

◾ Proship is a stance that means anti censorship.

◾ Proship is not a stance that means you personally enjoy taboo fiction.

◾ Proship is not a stance that means you personally enjoy problematic fiction.

◾ Proship is not a stance that means you personally enjoy sexual fiction about characters who are underage.

◾ Proship is not a stance that means you support taboo, problematic or inappropriate relationships in real life.

◾ Proship is not a stance that means you believe fictional problematic relationships are admirable, ideal, sweet, cute or good.

◾ Proship is not a stance that means you glorify, romanticize or fetishize problematic relationships in fiction.

◾ Proship is the default stance on fiction.

This is how you define it. Proship and antiship are meaningless terms because everybody has a different definition of them. These words aren’t academic jargon, therefore their use is defined by the speakers. If nobody can agree on what a word means, it is a word without any use. You need to define it every single time that you use it.

Not to mention how these terms flatten any analysis or discussion into a binary good or bad.

God, I hate these terms so much.

I’m curious how you feel about the meaningfulness of other terms whose meaning is disputed: for instance does pro-choice mean someone who supports women’s rights to abortion, or does it mean babykillers who love abortion?

Do not let your political opponents define your terms.