I didn't write the comment you replied to, but I definitely agree with what you're saying.
I've never understood raging hatred for seemingly innocent pairings. I can sort of understand where people are coming from with their dislike of pairings based around abuse or rape, or something similar, since they're often pairings with dubious or manipulative intentions, but I don't think it makes it okay to personally attack people for their ships.
When I was part of the ASOIAF/Game of Thrones fandom, I found a lot of the pairings disturbing, but I just kept to my own pairings and let people ship what they wanted. But I know there were a lot of ships and shippers that received hate. Just because someone ships a pairing that's based on abuse or rape doesn't mean they actually condone those actions in real life. It's like reading Lolita. Just because I think it's an interesting book and some of Nabokov's best writing doesn't mean I think pedophilia is okay.
The only issue I've ever had with shippers who like hated pairings are the ones who make comments trying to justify rape as love or condone abuse, but those people are a very, very tiny percentage of overall shippers and imo are more trolls than true shippers. But those types of people can be fans of any type of pairing. Every pairing has mean fans.
Basically, when it comes down to it, someone can really hate a pairing, but don't tag your hate or make attacks on shippers.
(Also, throwing all my love across the internet for the msscribe mention. After all these years in fandom, I've still seen very few things that compare to that level of insanity.)
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I didn't write the comment you replied to, but I definitely agree with what you're saying.
I've never understood raging hatred for seemingly innocent pairings. I can sort of understand where people are coming from with their dislike of pairings based around abuse or rape, or something similar, since they're often pairings with dubious or manipulative intentions, but I don't think it makes it okay to personally attack people for their ships.
When I was part of the ASOIAF/Game of Thrones fandom, I found a lot of the pairings disturbing, but I just kept to my own pairings and let people ship what they wanted. But I know there were a lot of ships and shippers that received hate. Just because someone ships a pairing that's based on abuse or rape doesn't mean they actually condone those actions in real life. It's like reading Lolita. Just because I think it's an interesting book and some of Nabokov's best writing doesn't mean I think pedophilia is okay.
The only issue I've ever had with shippers who like hated pairings are the ones who make comments trying to justify rape as love or condone abuse, but those people are a very, very tiny percentage of overall shippers and imo are more trolls than true shippers. But those types of people can be fans of any type of pairing. Every pairing has mean fans.
Basically, when it comes down to it, someone can really hate a pairing, but don't tag your hate or make attacks on shippers.
(Also, throwing all my love across the internet for the msscribe mention. After all these years in fandom, I've still seen very few things that compare to that level of insanity.)