Gency is not a problematic ship.
I’ve seen these posts over and over on my dashboard, reblogged by blogs I respect and am occasionally mutuals with.
It’s usually the same argument too:
It’s “florence nightingale syndrome” - Mercy shouldn’t be dating her patient
Taking away LGBT representation - (Referencing Phar//mercy)*
First I’m going to talk about the “florence nightingale syndrome” argument. This is... illogical. Mercy is a healer, a doctor, a medic. Using the “Mercy shouldn’t be dating her patient” when bashing the Gency ship is ridiculous. If that argument held any kind of importance then that would stand for every Overwatch member. Pharah, Zarya, you name it, all of them. They’re all Mercy’s patients. Genji? Genji doesn’t even get treated by Mercy anymore- he’s in Nepal. Mercy is no longer treating him, she is no longer his carer.
(I could make a point here about how tumblr is super hypocritical when it comes to Gency and Gen//yatta* but I won’t because this post is not about that ship)
I know that Blizzard took away voice lines between Pharah and Mercy and I cannot defend that. However that has nothing to do with the Gency ship nor the Gency shippers. So take your anger at that and do something about it, email blizzard about your anger for example. Stop this tumblr mob mentality and ganging up on shippers who just so happen to have had their ship made canon. Just because Pha//rmercy* is unlikely to be canon does not mean that you can’t still ship it.
I’m not even a Gency shipper, but I know a large group of my followers are and I am getting irritated by seeing the same two arguments on my dashboard. One being incredibly stupid and not thought through, the other being no fault of the ship itself but instead a decision by Blizzard which- if you want to change you should contact Blizzard yourselves.
If you have any questions you can just send me an ask and I’ll respond to that, I don’t want any more of this discourse on my blog because let’s be real, arguing over fictional ships is pretty petty and stupid.
(Phar//mercy and Gen//yatta are written like this so it doesn’t show up in their tags as I don’t want to fill up that tag with something irrelevant to their ships, and I want to be clear that I do not hate any of the ships mentioned in this post.)
