A self-proclaimed vers shipper who spends all day trashing one side of a ship dynamic is a little questionable to me.
If you genuinely enjoy both dynamics and have no preference, then you should know both sides have people who've been accused of the exact same things. Mischaracterization. Feminization. Racism. Sexualization. Fetishization. Romanticization. Glorification. Commodification. Buzzwordification. Californication. Pick your favorite fandom accusation of the week.
And before anyone starts with
"Well, I didn't mean the other side doesn't do it. I just see it more often on this side—"
No. Stop.
You don't have a magical fandom statistics database. There is no objective "more" and "less" here. What you're calling "more" is usually just the side you've been paying attention to, scrutinizing harder, or already dislike more. The moment you start consistently noticing one side's flaws while overlooking the other's, that's called having a preference.
Which is fine.
The weird part is acting like you don't.
And please retire the
"As a vers shipper, I can confirm—"
Confirm what?
You're not a peer-reviewed study. You're a person with opinions.
If you're deeply invested in t/b discourse, constantly arguing about it, constantly policing it, constantly dragging one side over it, and somehow always arriving at conclusions that favor one dynamic over the other, then congratulations. You have a preference.
There is nothing wrong with having a preference. Most people do.
What's strange is treating "vers shipper" like a badge of perfect objectivity while spending your time doing exactly what the partisan shippers do.
If you genuinely didn't care whether a ship was top/bottom, bottom/top, vers, upside down, sideways, or levitating in the stratosphere, you wouldn't be this invested in proving one side is uniquely problematic.
At some point you're not standing outside the ship war anymore. You're in the trenches throwing rocks with everybody else. The only difference is that you're insisting you're neutral while doing it.
A self-proclaimed vers shipper who spends all day trashing one side of a ship dynamic is a little questionable to me.
If you genuinely enjoy both dynamics and have no preference, then you should know both sides have people who've been accused of the exact same things. Mischaracterization. Feminization. Racism. Sexualization. Fetishization. Romanticization. Glorification. Commodification. Buzzwordification. Californication. Pick your favorite fandom accusation of the week.
And before anyone starts with
"Well, I didn't mean the other side doesn't do it. I just see it more often on this side—"
No. Stop.
You don't have a magical fandom statistics database. There is no objective "more" and "less" here. What you're calling "more" is usually just the side you've been paying attention to, scrutinizing harder, or already dislike more. The moment you start consistently noticing one side's flaws while overlooking the other's, that's called having a preference.
Which is fine.
The weird part is acting like you don't.
And please retire the
"As a vers shipper, I can confirm—"
Confirm what?
You're not a peer-reviewed study. You're a person with opinions.
If you're deeply invested in t/b discourse, constantly arguing about it, constantly policing it, constantly dragging one side over it, and somehow always arriving at conclusions that favor one dynamic over the other, then congratulations. You have a preference.
There is nothing wrong with having a preference. Most people do.
What's strange is treating "vers shipper" like a badge of perfect objectivity while spending your time doing exactly what the partisan shippers do.
If you genuinely didn't care whether a ship was top/bottom, bottom/top, vers, upside down, sideways, or levitating in the stratosphere, you wouldn't be this invested in proving one side is uniquely problematic.
At some point you're not standing outside the ship war anymore. You're in the trenches throwing rocks with everybody else. The only difference is that you're insisting you're neutral while doing it.