Hi, can you explain something for me? I thought being an anti means intrinsically that you share the ideology that it’s ok to harass and shame and bully people over their ships or what they write in general. So why is this particular anti in your inbox a good thing? Or did they describe themselves as “anti (x ship or character)” which from my understanding just means more along the lines of “I don’t like this” rather than “an Anti”, capitalized pronoun in a way, which is the harassing etc ideology? I’m confused.

by on December 21, 2022 at 5:45 pm
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They described themselves as an anti because language is not clear and distinct, and the antiship side has distorted the meaning of proship and antiship so heavily that it can feel meaningless.

According to extremist antis, “proship” means to them someone who personally supports irl pedophilia, rape, incest etc, and loves to see these things in fiction.

Meanwhile according to us proshippers, “proship” means someone who believes that it’s okay to create any kind of fiction, and that what you like in fiction doesn’t have a bearing on what you like or do in real life.

So to you and me the “anti” in my inbox is actually a proshipper.

But I’ve been told its bad to force a label on someone who doesn’t want to use it.

So if they call themselves an anti, that’s how I’ll refer to them.

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by on December 21, 2022 at 5:12 pm
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To the anti who sent us an ask and didn’t want us to publish it for fear of being attacked by other antis:

Thank you for being so reasonable, and I hope you achieve the goal that you told me about.

The terms antiship and proship aren’t good labels in general; labels are difficult because they are vulnerable to being twisted by both the people who use them and the people who oppose them.

It’s so frustrating seeing the most extreme and obnoxious antis try to assert that being ‘proship’ means you are pro irl child molestation.

It would be nice if groups that were not talking about fiction would stop trying to co-opt the proship label.

Likewise, I’m sure it’s frustrating for you to see the most extreme and obnoxious of your community sending death threats and acting like fiction is brainwashing.

at the end of the day I think the best message is “ship and let ship” but unfortunately, you and I both know that the extremist antis that you hate– the ones who dox and harass– will use that as an excuse to attack people who use it.

Let’s hope for peace in the new year.

🤝

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Thank you for being so blatant with the proship propaganda. You’re an easy block and I genuinely hope you get the help you need one day. You have a responsibility when given the freedom to write whatever you fucking want but there’s a limit for a reason.

by on December 21, 2022 at 4:22 pm
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Happy holidays, anon!

I’m so happy that you’re blocking people you don’t want to see the content of and curating your own experience online; a core proship value!

I’m sorry to hear about your unfortunate streak of authoritarianism, and hope that as you get older, and learn more about the world you start to understand that trying to control people’s thoughts and artwork only leads to dictatorship.

Peace and love!

–Harry

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