#cuz quite frankly that's what shipping a repulsed aroace looks like to me

[just-a-little-unionoid]

okay, realistically an unknown proportion of people who voted "only if-" did so because they thought about qpr, this proportion could be close to 100% for all I know, so let's ignore this one stat

so far 7.5% of people voted "yes", or roughly that on 13 people asked, 1 person said they would do that

do you think that, on Tumblr, for a similar pool of voters as for this poll, a similar proportion would vote "yes" to "there is a new character, she's a lesbian and specifically only interested in women*, it's in the content, she said the words... do you ship her with a male character"? (*note: not a "bi lesbian" or whatever, she specifically says either "I'm only into women" or "I'm not into men")

remember, it's not about weither people can, as in, "have the right to" ship her with a man, it's about whether or not do they do it

I agree that there is technically no wrong in doing it, characters are dolls we're meant to play with, and I won't prevent anyone from playing with their dolls any way they want, even when that's not my jam or when it straight up disgust me

but

the proportion of people doing something is definitely telling on the general view on it, specifically in regard to the proportion of another, similar, practice

if the proportion of people shipping a lesbian character with a man, or a gay character with a woman, are similar to the proportion of people shipping an aroace character, then okay, that means that's just something fandom do

but if the proportions are significantly different that means people perceive those things as different, and so, that they perceive aroaceness differently than other orientations

it's telling about our bias

also, if you voted "yes" for this poll but wouldn't for a poll about a lesbian or a gay character, ask yourself why do you perceive aroaceness differently than other sexual orientations? why are you not consistent in your answers? (or if any of those answers are differents btw, like if you're okay with changing one but not the others or not okay with one but okay with the others)

remember this is still not about whether or not something should be allowed but about whether or not you do it

Let’s see