Proship is the default stance fandom used to have--we didn't need a label because you were either normal or an asshole, and what we define as proship now used to be considered normal.
Essentially you abide by the principles of SALS ("ship and let ship") and YKINMKATO ("Your Kink Is Not My Kink And That's Okay" or "kinktomato").
Basically "we all ship what we like and stay in our own lanes and have nothing to do with the ships or kinks that distress us"
People who didn't abide by this were the ones involved in ship wars and were by and large regarded as raging assholes by everybody else.
Quite frankly if you look at the roots of anti behavior and how often they decry a ship that turns out to be the "rival" of their OTP, it becomes blatantly clear the anti movement is basically what happens when you mix ship wars with radfem and puritanical christian ideology.
Yes, I said radfem. There is a lot of anti-kink, anti-sex, anti-porn rhetoric in the anti movement, both things that are well known as things radfems (especially SWERFs) spout. Quite honestly they often literally word for word use the same arguments. You also see echoes of this in how they decry mlm ships as evil and corrupt and immoral while praising wlw ships that tick all the same boxes and wholesome and good.
I also brought up puritanical Christian thought--there is a heavy emphasis on "sin". They don't call it that but the concept is the same--if you have Impure Thoughts you'll be an Impure Person and Impure People are Evil. Also you must protect the children from the corrupting influence of Impure People. Again, they pretty much word for word make the argument Christian fundies do about thoughtcrime and sin.
They also seem to have a weird obsession with making everything about incest and/or pedophilia even when the work in question is entirely innocent.
When an anti sees something they don't like, the go-to response is telling people to kill themselves or threatening them.
When a proshipper sees something they don't like the go-to response is block the shit out of it to never see it again, then go on with their day.
At the end of the day if you're an anti, you want to eradicate everything that makes you even mildly uncomfortable without having to do any work to curate your experiences and you want to frame things that make you uncomfortable as immoral.
If you're proship, you just wanna be allowed to ship your silly little ships in peace and avoid the ships that make you uncomfortable.
A huge chunk of proshippers don't even ship anything problematic, or at least nothing majorly so. Lots are only into totally wholesome ships--they just don't think defaulting to death threats (and now terrorism) is the right response to seeing shit that upsets 'em.
Most of us are just Fandom Old And Tired and want the fighting to stop, people to learn how to filter and block stuff they don't want (I'd have killed for half the abilities we now have to curate what we see back when I was young and getting in fandom for the first time--and kids today don't even use 'em!!! Why!!!), and for children to stop seeking out 18+ content if they're just gonna scream at the creator when they find it.
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