#anti-shippers have the vibe of anakin beating the crap out of rush clovis. like get a grip we are on a more interesting spy mission

[knightotoc]

My sister just explained the history of "anti-shipping" as a movement of bullies who have, over the past 6-ish years, radicalized kids with their simplistic morality and effectively only hurt queer artists. I knew of it, but not the whole sorry timeline. It does feel pretty hopeless, since shipping began as a transformative repressed gay thing and it's changed into a consumer-based moral crusade; like, where do we go from here? Because we can't go back, and the future looks grim. How do we knock all these kids out of it, when Walt Disney's specific brand of crusty narrow-mindedness is taking over the world? It's fun to be violent and mean, I guess, when you think you're righteous. I can't relate, since I'm not here for morality; I'm here for Star Wars, and I've got a huge moral hangup with even the second word of that title.

I can understand criticizing ships, and getting riled up by trolls and bait, but I can't understand taking that anger out on other creators, making violent us-vs-them jokes, or obsessing over, stalking, or harrassing strangers. Or to put it in a morally simplistic way: Javert is the badguy.