#problematic ship

"they have an age gap! A 30 year old dating a 19yr old is creepy!"

True. Just as much as a 30 year old kidnapping and then "befriending" and keeping in touch with a 19 year old is.

Why do people act like platonic relationships and romantic/sexual ones are so inherently different, that enjoying a problematic platonic one is fine, but enjoying a problematic romantic/sexual one automatically means you must be endorsing it? And don't tell me it's "because the latter romanticises and normalizes it!" because people romanticise their platonic relationship and treat it as not a big deal all the time.

And this ain't an issue, they are fictional characters. It is obvious that people finding taylor and albert's platonic dynamic wholesome doesn't speak on how they'd react to it if it was real. I simply want to point out the hypocrisy of those that treat these two as inherently different, when they're not that far apart at all.

I also find it annoying how also some people that ship taybert bend over backwards to insist that it is not problematic. Unless you make a drastically different au, taybert that's fairly close to canon is going to be problematic, because well, the platonic relationship is too. The only reason people do this is really just to distance themselves from the "nasty darkshippers". But in that way, they have to justify questionable dynamics LOL