finally deciding to take a stance on the whole proshipping discourse, leaning towards proshipping being fine, but doing my research
why are you on the proship side? i also notice that you seem really antagonistic towards antis
im on the proship side because the alternative is capitulation to the puritanical arm of fascism, and ive linked to another rant from my personal blog about that. but other more empirical documentation on this is found all over the proship tags. my personal blog also tends to share a lot of writing about it, but i also dont tag very well over there. so, you might have to scroll through honest leftist theory, Palestinian solidarity info, transfeminine justice, and disability justice resources to find the "fake people kissing is fine actually" posts. terribly sorry.
essentially, every criticism levied toward "problematic" fiction is ignorant, unwittingly or otherwise, to the material circumstances which make that thing a problem in the first place. for example, what an anti would point to as a glorification of rape culture would only ever affect the world in the way they claim if those who rape have ever historically considered fiction a driver of their actions. trying to suggest that this contributes to rape culture only abdicates the parties truly at fault, namely the purveyors of patriarchy (which already has a pretty significant relationship to fascism). it offloads blame from them and onto whoever they feel like blaming.
letting this fester, quietly aided by much smarter, more deliberate fascists, is how we get people in government who think every trans woman is a pedophile. to the uninitiated, that might seem like absurdity, and an enormous jump in logic, but this tends to be the pedantic nature of studying the world from a leftist perspective. we have enemies, truly, who have spent a great deal of time weaving terrifyingly complex webs of oppression. many things that an uninformed individual might assume are innocuous, or even beneficial, are only made to look that way to avoid suspicion. another stark example of this is the non-profit industrial complex.
so, the reason i am antagonistic toward antis is because they're paving the way for nazis, whether they want to realize that or not. the simple logic of "making what you consider deplorable fiction does not meaningfully hurt anyone by its own merit, and people will never stop making icky fiction" is completely swerved in favor of listening to the people around them who swear that their gut reaction is justification to hurt real people.
though i see you saying you presently only "lean toward" thinking proshippers are justified, so id like to ask: what specifically ever made you think that antis might have a point?
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