#This is about the She-ra and Ducktales fandoms if you weren't sure

[lastoneout]

Can I just say as a Verified Queer Person I really hate how any time someone talks about why they don’t like a popular gay ship they instantly get labeled as a homophobe? 

Granted there are people out there who stay away from gay ships because they are homophobic, that is a thing that happens often, but just because someone doesn’t like a gay ship doesn’t automatically mean they are one of those people.  There are plenty of reasons that someone might dislike a gay ship, none of which inherently have anything to do with it being gay. Maybe it’s too fluffy or too angsty, maybe the dynamic isn’t interesting, or the person isn’t a fan of those characters, or maybe it really just isn’t their thing. There are SO many reasons someone might just not like a ship and it really doesn’t have anything to do with the genders of the characters involved. 

And also can we maybe ditch the trend of assuming everyone who likes a “straight” ship is straight? I have so many queer friends who, like me, have constantly had their sexualities invalidated just because they like a m/f ship and I shouldn’t even need to explain how that’s bullshit. I see people legit say hateful ass shit like “if you ship this you are straight and if you aren’t well the straights can have you” and say that queer people who ship a het ship must be suffering from internalized homophobia or just legit gone into ships tags full to the tits with posts calling the shippers hettie freaks and asking who let the straights out of their cages. And that’s fucking disgusting. 

Just somewhere along the line people on this site took the concept of mocking the oppressor class as a coping mechanism to such an extreme that now people legit think it’s ok to act like total dicks to anyone they perceive as straight(and I say perceive because this shit is more often than not directed at queer people who aren’t acting like a Good Gay Person) and not only does being oppressed not give you a free pass to be a dick all the time, but when you are using that “oppressed privilege” to be a dick TO OTHER QUEER PEOPLE then maybe we can all agree we have gone a bit too fucking far. 

Stop assuming everyone who ships an m/f ship is straight and for fucks sake stop calling people who don’t like the popular gay ship homophobes. Y’all have brains, start using them to build up your fellow queer and oppressed people, not to tear them down for not acting gay enough. 

Or just admit that you want to be a dick and go. Just don’t be surprised when people call you on your shit for it.