It’s unhinged to assume that someone’s taste in fiction equates to what they believe is moral or good, or is something they want to see or experience in real life.
That is a bonkers assumption to make.
I’m tired of humoring people with long arguments about it when the simple fact is it is a totally fucking absurd reach to accuse someone who enjoys something in fiction of being in favor of it in real life.
I’m tired of pretending like this is a legitimate position to hold– that they should be afraid of fiction’s dire influence on a reader’s moral decay or that it’s a sign of what the author secretly wants for realsies in real life.
I promise you it is still getting me death threats in 2024.
#this is why I kept forgetting what pro-shipping and anti-shipping meant#or rather thinking it was something more complex than this?#because it’s such a dumbass assumption to make I could not believe it gained enough traction to become a moral outrage issue#(OVER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS)
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