What is proshipping and why is it bad? What is the opposite of a proshipper?
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Proshipping is an overloaded word. It can mean one of two totally different things:
1. Being for (or “pro”) freely shipping characters together. Any shipping is okay because it’s fiction. No one can get hurt from writing a story about people who don’t exist. The opposite of this is “antiship,” which means “no shipping that doesn’t meet my personal real life moral code.”
2. “Problematic shipping.” Namely, nonconsensual sexual encounters (“noncon”), dubious consent (“dubcon”), ships where one person is a minor, abusive relationships, basically anything that wouldn’t fly in real life. The people who complain about proships are people who are usually “antiship” as by the definition above. They tend to think that what you read and write starts to define who you are, so if you consume that media, you must somehow endorse or at least be okay with normalizing very bad behavior in real life.
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