Proshippers claim to be these super woke “anti-censorship” advocates but then turn around and worship their precious Ao3 as if the site isn’t actively censoring/silencing any mentions of Palestine…
None of them actually give a flying fuck about any of the very real censorship going on right now, so it’s always incredibly painful having to witness these idiots go “uhm—actually the true original meaning of proship is just being against censorship!☝️🤓”
Okay??? Then act like it.
Because no, censorship isn’t a handful of people online reacting negatively towards your toxic yaoi non-con incest and whatever the fuck else fanfic. You are not and never will be oppressed for what you actively chose to indulge in.
You can absolutely be anti-censorship and not be proship/fic or the other silly pointless labels that have been conjured up over the years. Why lie and say these terms mean something they’re not, when anti-censorship is a perfectly fine and clear label to begin with?
I myself will always believe in being anti-censorship but pro-consequences. I don’t condone or partake in harassment or bullying, but I do believe in the consequences of publishing such things. If you make content that doesn’t handle these serious/dark topics with the care and respect needed to tastefully depict them, then I’m sorry, but don’t be surprised when people do eventually come for you, that is incredibly naive. Receiving criticism and backlash is not censorship, and some people really need to learn that fact. Once your work is publicly up online, a few dead dove and don’t like don’t read tags plastered on it aren’t going to automatically make you exempt from judgement.
I’m so sick and tired of seeing all these serious terms like “fascist”, “puritan”, “censorship”, “purity culture”, etc… being watered down and thrown around with zero thought or respect for what they actually mean, all just because someone hurt your feelings online by not aligning with your beliefs. It's not the big-brained gotcha moment you think it is; it's just straight up insensitive to the actual victims of these things, and you sound stupid.
I can’t, and never will be able to, take someone seriously the moment they put the hate for their distasteful fetish content on the same level as the terms I mentioned above. People have died in genocides and are still being killed; women in some places are still being shamed and harmed for showing an ounce of sexuality or for simply bleeding once a month (something which to some is still seen an “impure”); minorities and queer voices are being silenced, and history is being erased. But no, none of that matters, does it? You only care about supposed “censorship” when it suits you as a fun little buzzword to use incorrectly.
Anyways, censorship fucking sucks! Dark themes are important and should obviously still be explored in works of fiction. But I have every right to judge losers for jerking it to fictional children and other whack shit like that. ✌️
