dismantling takes from self proclaimed Proshippers echoing Anti rhetoric and letting it seep into a community built on the separation of fiction and reality.
Please read this. It was a lot of work and it was hard to take this leap and finally speak out. Please do not read this in bad faith, and take the time to really see what I am saying. Please also DM if you have concerns, you will not be brushed off. Thank you for your time.
@AAnnihilators I want to agree, but unfortunately there is a lot of harassment going on both sides, and a lot of people don't seem to recognize it, or they don't care. I think all harassment should be held accountable no matter who is doing it.
Please understand the difference between having boundaries and imposing those boundaries on other random ass people.
"*I* don't like this. *I* will avoid it."✅
"*I* don't like this so *you* can't like it either!"🚫
No I don't think zine mods should be pressured into allowing content they find objectionable in their zine. Because boundaries are a thing.
My chief problem is when mods start policing content creators and stalking their profiles for purity. That's stage 5 clinger behaviour fam.
telling antis "we won't accept you here" tells them to stay where they are, to continue acting as antis. remember that cult survivors are often enraptured in the concept of community. find it in yourself to criticize, but accept when someone has left the abuse behind.
accepting ex-antis is important. if you can objectively look at the treatment content creators get from them, it stands to reason that even those among them are treated poorly. very often, they feel there no way out. #supportexantis
the #proship movement means to separate fiction and reality; acknowledging dynamics are harmful in reality and alluring in fiction is integral to message. your kinks don't define your morality.
just as you have no obligation to only like pure/wholesome content, other people have no obligation to like problematic content! not having a taste for harder kinks or problematic ships doesn't make someone an anti! freedom to ship as you please is integral to proship- both ways!
fiction =/= reality is the foundation of proshipping! trying to alter or argue actual laws in reality to validate fiction and make it "less problematic" is an effort to conform fiction and reality, and in doing so can hurt real victims, which is what proship is against!
there is nothing wrong with the word problematic, and there is nothing wrong with acknowledging a dynamic you like is problematic, even if that's WHY you like it! be okay with saying "yes it is problematic, and it is fictional, and I recognize that distinction makes my ship ok"
this twitter was made to discuss how certain proshippers have devolved into anti views, attesting to dismantle the boundary between fiction and reality and embodying a pro-bullying and pro-slander mentality. this decline has been disheartening.