What is proshipping and why is it bad? What is the opposite of a proshipper?
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There’s a corner of the internet where young people have decided that “shipping” fictional characters (imagining/discussing fictional characters having romantic or sexual relationships) is toxic or predatory. I _think_ this was originally limited to shipping characters who are minors in the source material, but they keep expanding the definition of what they find problematic. The most recent extreme example of this that I saw was someone claiming unironically that writing about two fictional characters having sex is sexual coercion because those _fictional characters_ don’t have agency or ability to consent.
pro-shippers are anyone who rejects this ideology.
In the context of underage characters specifically, there’s nuanced discussion to be had. Outside of that, I don’t even know where to start with how misguided the anti-ship echochamber is.
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