#'people only hate on huntlow cause its straight!!!'

[dazeddoodles]

On that note. I've been defending Huntlow shippers from people hating on it for months because I know when Raeda gets together at the very last minute, we're gonna get it too.

Raeda Shippers 🤝 Huntlow Shippers

[catgoesboom]

as someone who's not even in the fandom, or have much of an opinion on huntlow outside of 'aw that's cute', the huntlow hate is soooo obviously rooted in fatphobia, and this weird notion fandoms have cultivated, that f/m ships are Bad™

people are trying so hard to cover themselves, saying it's because 'oh, it wouldn't work!' like. it's a cartoon. it's not going to be that deep, and people know that, but because it's Willow, a fat character, it's suddenly absolutely because of that, and not like. fatphobia

and the same thing happened with glimbow! like, i never shipped that myself, always preferred glimadora, but it's so weird that people had this whole Thing about it, when it was so obviously being set up as canon

and it's just. it's so obvious. like when the ship is queer, people can tolerate it. but the moment it's f/m, it's suddenly this Thing, and i'm not saying heterophobia is real or whatever, but fandom has this weird thing with f/m ships, and when you combine that with the fact that like, 99% of fandom is fatphobic, even if not actively, even if not purposefully, it's just. a really bad look man

Outside the fatphobia point (cause it really is that obvious when you see the same pattern with other queer focused shows, there is no discussion that people that hate willow is cause she's fat), is really hard to talk about how there IS at best a weird contempt towards f/m ships in (specially white) queer fandom spaces. Its not heterophobia, cause not only that doesn't exist, in general fandom spaces you can see that people do still tend towards f/m ships even when there is obvious queer undertones between two same-sex characters, but there is an obvious prejudice and dislike towards anything they deem as "straight", even if it isn't, and a an overwhelming protection of same sex ships even if they're just meh. Saving another really REALLY long post of general multiphobia and the usual path of when you become a young activist, about how you're really insecure about everything so you try to double down in your still wrongfully black and white, developing mindset, specially in now a more reactive society and social medias: They just want to be like the oppressors. They just want to be like the oppressors! The only thing they ever have some protection of is same sex ships over everything else, so once a ship isn't same sex, they have no issue in letting out their biphobia, fatphobia, (most of the time internalized) transphobia, ableism and racism out, but when its same sex, they use us as an extra selling point, like other minorities are only important if its convenient to them. And I think this is a problem that is happening all around online, not only the toh fandom, but any fandom.