Fandom Musings
Aug. 5th, 2020 03:11 amOne of those things that really gets me is when people go out of their way to, like, highlight one specific ship as being morally wrong rather than saying 'shipping enemies to lovers is immoral' or something like that. Like, I obviously don't agree with the latter example, but I can respect a statement like that for its consistency at least. And I think it's fine if people are just like 'I can't stand this ship because of the associations I have with it' but they're not categorically saying that if someone likes that pairing then they *must* advocate some horrifying real-life thing or other. Like I personally hate the word 'squick' and could never use it to describe my dislike of certain things because it simply doesn't carry the right emotional tone for me lol. But while there are a lot of fictional things I find deeply unpleasant, I don't assume that the intensity of my emotional reaction to something can tell me if that thing is immoral or not. I also don't assume that I have to get over disliking things that I don't think are immoral, because people are allowed to dislike things without having to justify that dislike to others. I just think it's useful to be able to separate 'it's categorically immoral to like this' and 'I'm instating a boundary that I don't want people to bring this up with me' and to just...really firmly separate those two concepts.