#fandom problem 7105

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Fandom Problem #7105:

The thing that annoys me about the "proship is bad!" bullshit, surprisingly isn't the censorship aspect, but the fact the definition has been completely warped by censorship advocates so that now, most people don't realize it just means "I don't condone censorship, and I don't condone bullying people over what media they like and or create". They don't realize the "pro" means "in support of" (in this case, in support of freedom of fiction). Instead, they make a wild reach and assume it's shorthand for "problematic", just because chronically online assholes see "problematic" aspects in everything so that's the first thing that jumped to their mind when they saw the "pro" prefix, and since they've obstinately spread that definition around, now everyone thinks that's what proship means. Proship literally just means what I said above: not condoning censorship. Pro-fiction, pro-freedom to write, draw, etc fictional things. Anyone in the real world would understand what you mean by that, and most people regardless of what they personally like or hate reading, writing, watching, etc are technically proship, they just don't know the term "proship" exists because it's a fandom-only word. But if you say "I'm against censorship", which is what it means, they'd go "oh yeah, same". If they're a sensible person with critical thinking skills anyways. Okay end rant.

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7105

The good news is, anyone who claims proship means "problematic ship/shipper" can be disregarded, because it means they never even bothered to look up where the word came from, and are so painfully unaware of fandom history when it comes to censorship that they're not worth speaking to in the first place. Especially if they show an obvious unwillingness to even entertain the idea that they could be wrong, and instead they just dig in their heels and joke "no i'm right and ur wrong actually lol".

People first made the word "antiship" to describe how they're against certain kinds of ships. Anti means against. "Proship" was a foil to that. Anti, pro. Against, in favor of.

Period.

Posting as a response to a previous problem.