not proship or antiship or secret third thing but a secret fourth thing (dont care but if you enjoy certain types of media i do not want to interact with you or share too much space with you because of personal reasons but you treat it the same as eradication of you mfs from earth)
not proshipper not anti but a secret third thing (person who has a career in the media and, through covering legislative politics, has watched "associating with problematic fiction or entertainment is an indicator of moral degeneracy" rapidly become a mainstream GOP position that they are encoding in legislation to target the queer community under the guise of protecting children, thus coming to the conclusion that positioning the "can people enjoy things that would be immoral IRL in their fiction" debate as a proship v anti fandom debate is akin to pretending that "should we have the death penalty" is a discussion that only matters in Death Note discourse — the extent and manner to which fiction affects reality is an issue that is immediately relevant to today's US politics, and to summarize my opinions on the matter in fandom terms would be to diminish the ways this debate is affecting america Right The Fuck Now. and i have stopped taking "this person is bad for shipping the wrong anime thing and being horny about it" in any sort of good faith ever since I saw it literally used as part of a GOP smear campaign against a transgender state legislator in an attempt to defend the right from backlash after they used their supermajority in the Montana house to prevent her from speaking on the floor. Anyway I think everyone on this site, especially Americans, could benefit from ceasing to think in proship v anti vocabulary and instead developing coherent political positions on the nature of fiction that do not directly align with current fascist political tactics)
Anti-ship culture is opening an incognito tab to scroll the proshipper tags of a fandom and blocking people on a separate tag while also finding it funny how they're actually making this content unironically and acting like it's somehow cute/romantic (it's really not)
Bonus points if you see your own ships that you thought were fine (and they are) there and getting scared before realizing that some proshippers don't ONLY ship icky stuff and feeling almost offended that they would dare also ship the thing you like
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note that antiship-culture-is does not encourage nor condone harassment. blocking people is awesome though
fun fact!
it’s canon that every single character in HLVRAI would kill a pedophile on sight! it’s true!
proshippers get out of our tag and our fandom. we don’t want you here.