Shippers openly admit they don’t care about criticism of shipping. They’re so obsessed with twisting every interaction into a “gay ship” that they completely ignore the harm this behavior causes. They fixate on relationships that are only implied, or that they just think “sound gay,” but never actually exist in the story. Meanwhile, there are plenty of non-BL works with openly, undeniably canon gay characters akstories that can’t be twisted or debated are never get the same level of attention or celebration. Shipping is never harmless when people would rather drool over their made-up pairings than support actual, confirmed representation that deserves recognition.
Shippers openly admit they don’t care about criticism of shipping. They’re so obsessed with twisting every interaction into a “gay ship” that they completely ignore the harm this behavior causes. They fixate on relationships that are only implied, or that they just think “sound gay,” but never actually exist in the story. Meanwhile, there are plenty of non-BL works with openly, undeniably canon gay characters akstories that can’t be twisted or debated are never get the same level of attention or celebration. Shipping is never harmless when people would rather drool over their made-up pairings than support actual, confirmed representation that deserves recognition.