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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.
“If nobody can agree on what a word means, it is a word without any use.” Except everyone who uses the term ‘proship’ defines it the exact same way. Just because you refuse to listen doesn’t mean it’s not a well accepted definition.
Also? “Not to mention how these terms flatten any analysis or discussion into a binary good or bad.” Yeah, because it’s a very flat conversation.
The question is “Do you think it’s okay to harass real people over the fictional content they consume or create?”
The answers are either “Yes” or “No”. There’s no nuance to be had to this topic. If your so-called nuance is “Only when it’s [insert thing you don’t like]” your answer is “Yes” and you’re part of the problem. If your so called nuance is “No, but I don’t want to see [insert thing you don’t like]” then that’s not nuance either, that’s just having a preference, which has no place in this conversation.
It’s a yes or no question, it’s not a hard question to answer.
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