Listen, if you’re someone who believes fictional ships can normalize rape, abuse, murder, child molestation, etc. – then you’re also categorized alongside people who:
believe videogames normalize and make human beings go out and murder people and commit violence acts,
those who believe fantasy games and stories create devil worshippers
that heavy metal music and rock music create satanic lesbians, violent criminals
who believe stories involving homosexual/nonstraight characters “make/turn” their children into “fags, queers, sinful homosexuals”
If you believe fictional ships and stories have that heavy of an impact on society, then you automatically believe all that other shit I listed above.
Here’s the thing, guys: you don’t have to appease antis!
First of all, you can’t! It doesn’t matter what kind of horrific abuse you’ve been subjected to, antis will never ever think it’s “good enough.” It will never grant you a “permission” to ship “gross” ships or have “bad” kinks. It will simply never happen.
Because the whole ~you can’t do that unless you are a survivor uwu~ thing antis do? It ‘s bullshit. They are constantly moving the goalposts!
– but you need to find better coping
– but you can only cope in private
– but actually if you do this, I am going to think you are not a survivor.
Don’t try to appease antis. Stop trying to justify your ships and your kinks to them. You are good enough!
You’re a survivor of emotional abuse but not sexual? You are good enough!
A survivor of sexual abuse but not this or that kind? You are good enough!
A survivor of physical abuse, but not emotional or sexual? You are good enough!
Second of all, none of this matters!
The only question you need to ask yourselves is: are you hurting anyone? Are you hurting any living, breathing person in real life? If the answer is “no,” then you are good enough! Whatever you ship or kink, whatever you fantasise about, no matter how “disgusting” some might find it, as long as you are not hurting real people, YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH!
antis: force victim to out themselves and go into detail about their trauma
antis: use outdated bullshit articles to justify their “fiction affects reality!!!!!!” bullshit
antis: harass minors who ship things they dont like and tell them to kill themselves
antis: actively suicide bait teens who are already suicidal as it is
antis: slander people by calling them pedophiles, rapists, or abuse apologists with absolutely zero evidence or correlation to the topic at hand
antis: leave innocent people traumatized and prone to panic attacks due to severe harassment
antis: their biggest problem is people shipping things they dont like like how fucking privileged are you
antis: harass fujoshis when anti-fujoshism is rooted in nothing but misogyny
antis: turn victims into a complete fucking joke by comparing fictional ships to real life abuse
antis: post triggering content such as gore and emetophobia in ship tags then get mad when you call them out
antis: tell victims who disagree with them that they deserved their trauma
antis: claim to care about victims but force them to cope ship in private, tell them they know better than their professional therapists, assume they ship “problematic” ships as a coping mechanism when they very well could ship it just cause they like it, and insist that victims are harming themselves by exposure to such content even though it’s been proven that exposure is the most effective method of recovery
antis: literally put BLADES IN A FANARTISTS COOKIES AND ATTEMPT TO FUCKING MURDER HER OVER A FICTIONAL FUCKING SHIP OF AN AGED UP CHARACTER WITH ANOTHER ADULT CHARACTER
antis: lol why do people hate us lol we’re just normal people uwu uwu uwu in real life people will murder you for shipping weird stuff uwu uwu uwu totally lol lol :))
Seriously, though, imagine an anti working at a bookstore or library and throwing a shitfit every time someone buys/checks out some “problematic” fiction, calling them racist or a pedo or something. They’d get fired instantly. The moment you imagine this shit in the real world, the moment you realise how fucking ridiculous and childish it is.
i’m deciding it now….. 2018 is going to be the year of liking the fictional stuff you like without being apologetic about it or needing to justify your own thoughts and opinions. Just eat some pie and love yourself, thanks