What is proshipping and why is it bad? What is the opposite of a proshipper?
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Proshipping is not a proper verb. You don’t proship something, you *are* proship. It’s an anti-censorship and anti-harassment stance in regards to fiction, a stance where morals do not matter in fiction because fiction is not real and, therefore, anything goes.
It does not mean you ‘have’ to support the content if you’re proship, simply that you won’t harass or try to censor someone for their taste in *fiction*. Many proshippers don’t like content featuring fictional incest, for example, but they will still support and defend another person’s right to create or enjoy it.
Largely because we understand that what one likes in fiction, is not what they want to see or do in real life. Thought crime is not real. Otherwise, everyone who likes slasher films and cheers on/stans the villain should be on a watch list (and many, *many* chicks fawn over Ghostface, Jason, Myers, and Freddy), and anyone who watches and *likes* Game of Thrones should want to fuck their brother, and that’s just stupid.
As for antiship, they range from people who mind their own business and just don’t associate with proship persons, to people who harass others via death threats, trying to ruin their life over art (like the Ang Vondra situation), and there have even been some who have dug up their victims’ CSEM material to send to them and the people they know. In fact, similar things have happened quite a bit. It doesn’t even have to be their victim’s CSEM material, there are antis who somehow just have shit like that on hand to send to people they don’t like. And if it isn’t CSEM it’s gore, but gore’s a nothingburger in comparison.
There was at one point a Twitter thread that listed ~40? 50?-ish accounts of antishippers who turned out to be actual true-to-definition predators. I’d try to find it but Muskrat made it so you have to have an account to log into to do *anything* on Xitter now 🙄
Not saying proshippers are 100% innocent angels but I have yet to hear of any doing that to someone who declares themselves an anti, lol. It’s usually just dumb comments and overstepping DNI boundaries (which antis do a lot too).
And both sides can be two-faced. If you ship one (1) thing some anti deems “problematic,” even if both characters are adults – maybe it’s a height difference, or one’s 20 and one’s 50, or one is autistic and therefore declared by that side of the fandom to be “child coded,” (which let us be real, is ableism), or, or – and you, personally, think it’s fine, you can end up on a harassment shitlist and be accused of a myriad of things that aren’t, by definition of the buzzwords used, true. And if some proshipper spreads a rumor that you’re an anti even when you aren’t, chances are people will just believe them and block you out of their communities without any fact checking.
This schism in fandom erupted from the Voltron fandom, iirc.
These have been my observations over my years spent lurking in fandom spaces. 🤷
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