#anitship

Many Sailor Moon fans are acting like I am anti and that I police people's use of work. But the reality is, for the past, oh 30, years, since the franchise's inception, Internet fans have acted as fanpols in the Sailor Moon community.

You see about 30 years ago, Sailor Moon aired on American and Canadian TV. Sailor Moon is an old anime. It was the story of Serena and her friends and it was awesome.

However, Internet fanpols wouldn't have it. They would go on campaigns to "educate" fans about Sailor Moon and how she wasn't really Serena even though she was called that in the dialogue. They went on campaigns to mock people who did not use the names found either in the Japanese language version of the anime or in the manga.

I argued then that as I argued now, that author intent is pointless, and that the character shouldn't be seen the "correct" way aside from that was portrayed in the episodes themselves, and that people should be allowed to see the characters "incorrectly." For instance, one of the characters was female, but in the Japanese version, this character was male. The argument was that because that character was assigned a gender, they had to stay that gender and that no other way of looking at the character was allowed. It was your standard TERF arguments applied against fictional characters. My argument was that it didn't matter what the gender character was assigned but how the character was displayed and there was nothing wrong with seeing this character as female.

The end result of all this fanpol interference is that they won. The Sailor Moon that actually aired on TV over 20 years is completely unavailable from a legal standpoint. It has gotten so bad that people have watched the new Sailor Moon episodes and reporting remembering seeing these episode as kids.

Please note that this was made out of during the discourse involving controversal contents involving minors. This was out of an lack of proper understanding of the Shipping discourse and the definition of pro shippers. Please note that I’m against purity culture and the call for the sanatization of the online space, but I do advocate the proper use of content tags and ratings (like in Ao3 and Newgrounds).

One of the greatest inconsistencies of the people who call themselves archivists and "anti-censorship" is that many of those same people actively and unrepentantly championed for the version of Sailor Moon dub that I grew up with to become lost media.

So many of them argue "fiction cannot harm you" as they policed the Sailor Moon fandom and rendered the actual canonical material into non-existence. In fairness, a few of them have belatedly realized they didn't intend for the old dub to be completely yanked away, but the vast majority of the proshipper Sailor Moon fandom rendered the old dub "problematic "and thus "not worthy of existing."

Fanpols are the ones who said the official English version of Sailor Moon done in the 1990's was problematic and should be censored. They are the ones who branded me and others freaks and pathetic and problematic and bad people for championing Serena as Sailor Moon.

They are the ones who literally got media banned and replaced because they argue it shouldn't exist, and now most of them have the gall to claim they are "proship." No, if you are against the old dub you are not proship. Being proship would mean you would have left your fellow fans alone and not erased us.

It took me a moment to realize what this in with regard to, and I realize that certain blogs have decided to peg me as an "anti" because I express disapproval or disdain of a select few ships.

Generally, I am in favor of people shipping who they want, and I'm not going to actively campaign to blacklist people who ship those I don't like to see together (which is what both antishippers and proshippers do...the problem is the ostracism and bullying, not the stance on shipping).

That said, there's nothing wrong with declaring a ship a bad ship. That's called having preferences. You should always be allowed to declare preferences regarding fictional characters. You don't have to endorse every ship and should be able and encouraged to campaign against certain ships -- not creators or other people -- if you want. To tell people they shouldn't express feelings about fictional ships is no different than calling them evil for shipping.