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This page has mentions of : homophobia, pedophilia, harassment.
If you came to this page only to label me as either proship or anti, just to be very clear, I'm neither a proshipper or an anti and don't want to be associated with either groups. If you've read the summazied version of this page, you know how much I dislike this argument. If you side with either, I don't care, and I'm open to discussions, but don't expect me to side with you or get convinced easily.
Keep in mind that this page is mostly my opinion, and if I say something is factual, I'll link the source of that information.
The Proship and Antis is an online discourse, which takes its origin in shipping war (especially in early tumblr years), and focuses on shipping. To heavily summarize, according to those who partake in it, it tries to define what shipping are deemed as "problematic" and which aren't, based on criterias that aren't proprely defined. Because of that lack of clear seperation between problematic and non-problematic, two people within the same group could have completly different conclusions.
Shipping:The idea of pairing two or more characters, mostly in romantic, rarely platonic and/or sexual relationships. It could be as vague as thinking two character would make an interesting relationship, or very detailed justification for why this relationship is canon or should be canon.
Shipping culture:Culture created by people who partakes in shipping and takes it seriously. This has lead to shipping discours, which are arguments between people on shipping, either for individual ships (I.E if Zoro x Sanji is better than Zoro x Luffy, or if Zoro x Sanji is problematic), or for shipping as a whole (I.E if shipping abusive relationship is fine).
Problematic:A label used to describe something that causes, encourages or enables a problematic idea or act. I.E, lolicon is problematic because it encourages the sexualisation of underage girls.
Canon/Fanon/Headcanon:Canon are elements presents explicitly within the story or stated as true by the creators. Fanon are elements created by fans and adopted by the fandom (The name of the purple guy being Vincent before it got confirmed being William Afton). Headcanons are elements created by fans, either very personal or shared among a significant part of the fandom.
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What are these groups ?
Proshippers
Proshippers are those who believes that people should be allowed to ship anything they want, even if it's deemed as problematic. Most agreed to not bother others for their ship and believe that fiction doesn't affect reality, or it affects it differently than real life events. They'll either post about these problematic ships and themes, repost/retweet/share them, or ignore them altogether. However, they might interact with antis if they're publicly against problematic themes as a mean to defend the right of self expression.
Antis
Antis are those who believes that people shouldn't ship anything they want because of its problematic themes. They believe that fiction does affect reality, therefore shipping problematic ships will negatively affect people's lives. While some will keep their discomfort to themselves, a significant part of them will interact with posts that includes problematic ships, either to explain why it's not okay to ship it, or to ask the original poster to remove the post.
Might believe it or not, but both proshippers and antis are the same kind of people, with little differences. Both believes that their morals and approach to art is inherently better than the other, therefore the other is problematic. And while some problems are worse than the other (such as proshippers hosting many predators in their group, and antis encouraging puritanism), neither group is better than the other, because they both have the exact same core problem of putting their personal biases over other's freedom.
Don't get me wrong, I'm against using "freedom of speech" to spread disgusting art work and fan fictions and I see those who do that, but harassing them isn't going to change their mind, especially if your method is just spamming "problematic" like mousquitos above a pond.
Why is this debate harmfull ?
Might believe it or not, but both proshippers and antis are the same kind of people, with little differences. Both believes that their morals and approach to art is inherently better than the other, therefore the other is problematic. And while some problems are worse than the other (such as proshippers hosting many predators in their group, and antis encouraging puritanism), neither group is better than the other, because they both have the exact same core problem of putting their personal biases over other's freedom.
Don't get me wrong, I'm against using "freedom of speech" to spread disgusting art work and fan fictions and I see those who do that, but harassing them isn't going to change their mind, especially if your method is just spamming "problematic" like mousquitos above a pond.
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