When Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart was asked to describe his test for obscenity in 1964, he responded: “I know it when I see it.”
Types of ships that pro-censorship fans have attempted to label as objectionable “proships”:
characters who are more than 2 years apart in age (power imbalance)
boss x employee (power imbalance)
unrelated characters who have referred to one another as siblings (incest)
characters who have known one another since they were children (incest)
enemies to lovers (abusive)
characters who are playfully mean to one another (abusive)
characters they personally feel have a “sibling” dynamic (incest)
characters they personally feel have a “parent/child” dynamic (incest)
ships where one character is autistic or disabled (pedophilia)
ships where one character has a playful attitude (pedophilia)
ships where one character is short and the other is tall (pedophilia)
ships where one character is an 18-25 year old adult (pedophilia)
followers, please feel free to add to this list!
Ships where both characters are teenagers of a similar age, but an adult wrote the fic (pedophilia, somehow)
i’ve had multiple ships that got called “abusive” “pedophillic” and “stockholm syndrome” by antis where the younger one is 25/35/40 but the older one is 20 to 30 years older. Somehow the ~magic brain age~ of 25 is still not old enough for fictional character.
the huge number of 23 year olds on tumblr/twitter telling me (in my 30s) that it was pedophillia and abusive to ship a 40 year old man with a 60 year old woman made me feel unhinged 😂
I saw a couple people back in the day (circa~16 years ago) declaring Edward Elric and Winry Rockbell as Incestuous and Abusive
Because they were childhood friends to lovers (knew each other as children), and because Winry is typically depicted as taking her frustration and anger out on Ed with a wrench (Which is depicted as slapstick and the guy can punch God.)
Funny how I never heard those same people say the same about…
These two but you know….it’s just so hard to tell when it’s the “Actual bad wrong” type of ship, right? :p (/Sarcasm)
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