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I wish I understood why pro-censorship fans think that its normal and okay to treat “shipping” as some kind of sacred moral space away from other types of fiction where only good and pure and desirable things can happen.
I think this is all really down to the confusion on what it means to “ship” something I think.
It’s really annoying how the actual definition of “ship” is “consider the possibility of what it would look like if two characters were romantically or sexually involved”–
and some people treat “ship” as if it meant “think that it is the best, most ideal possible relationship for the characters to be in and that it should be canon.”
Honestly I think it has something to do with the fact that media as a whole is heavily used as escapism and wish fulfillment. And these people assume, that’s all it’s really for.
Which explains why people are so horrified when you ship or write about something that you personally wouldn’t want to experience in a relationship.
It’s why people ascribe that “healthy ships” are worth more and better, as if ships are like real-life relationships, and are more fulfilling when it’s healthy.
How a ship is compelling, how a ship moves the narrative, how a ship highlights character development and traits and how a ship is in relation to character arcs. Gets entirely ignored, the ship itself gets divorced from its source material, and is rated on how well it would fare in real life. And it’s a darn shame!
Its wish fulfillment and escapism that is never allowed to go too far in imagining elaborate, interesting dilemmas that come with a story.
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