many problems are caused by the mindset that the world is divided into good people and bad people and the bad people can be “found out” and removed, eventually leading to a utopia containing only good people.
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Genuinely the current political climate is fucking abysmal people have gotten so weird and pearl-clutchy about sex that they get frightened when sexuality is celebrated at gay pride and somehow we’ve regressed past the “equating women to uteruses is bad what if we didn’t treat people like breeding stock” stage of feminism from like, the 1920s. In an effort to get a #win against trans people or something?? So that’s cool
Not to be like “this is Literally 1984” but like people are getting so ultra-conservative christofashy that I’ve seen people arguing about if it’s morally okay to be sexually attracted to real people without asking. Not doing anything just experiencing attraction. You guys are trying to invent thought crimes. I know the pandemic got everyone a little disconnected from reality but it is not the end of the world if you glimpse an ankle
I love horror that’s nasty and bloody and weirdly sexual. Sorry. Like it’s my fault
I think the thing about it is like… Being “pro-ship” was never a community the way being an anti is. Being pro-ship or pro-fiction just seems to mean that you don’t necessarily care what other people ship, as long as they aren’t shoving it up your nose or trying to force you to ship it. It’s a new version if the “ship and let ship” mindset I grew up with, where we just like… Really didn’t care what other people did with fictional characters. We interacted if we vibed, and didn’t if we didn’t. It just means you don’t harass people over a ship. Which is honestly normal and not hard to do.
Antis on the other hand seem to like to organize and attack people. They’re a community that is constantly talking and pointing fingers and throwing themselves at people. They DO harass people, very frequently and for often nonsensical reasons– look through my blog a bit and you’ll find them calling me a pedophile due to my relationship with All Might. On my old blog someone led a campaign calling me a serial killer because of yet another F/O. They think that if you ship something they don’t like, be it incest or villains or anything, you deserve to die and have your life ruined because you’re an awful person because only AWFUL people like problematic media. It hinges on their belief that shipping = morality, which… It clearly doesn’t, considering you have people on that side trying to commit straight up murder and handwaving it away because “I only gave needle-filled cookies to a BAD person”. It’s fucked up.
And the thing is? You don’t have to use the label “pro-shipper”. I don’t! I just openly hate antis and point out how stupid they are. I’m pro- Leaving People Alone If They Aren’t Hurting Me. Someone shipping something on their own blog where I can choose not to see it? Not hurting me. Someone sending me death threats because they think all age gaps are pedophilic in nature? VERY hurting me. It’s a simple process and makes it easy to tell who the real assholes are.
We create our own online experiences. Don’t attack people, but don’t be afraid of blocking things that hurt you. And… Controversial take, but someone following you does NOT mean you gotta follow them back. They can consume your content without you consuming theirs. It’s okay to ignore people if you don’t care for their content. Like we’re allowed to just let people live.
They could, but how would people know how moral and upstanding they were if they didn’t talk about how much they hate and want to hurt nasty icky proshippers?
How would proshippers know how awful and icky they were if antis didn’t break their own dnis to tell them??