Antiship Discourse - Tumblr Posts

Not me on the internet seeing yet another person discussing proship v antiship. Could, uh... This is gonna sound real stupid because I've existed within fandoms for a long time. But could someone genuinely explain what the discourse is?

I would assume proship is ship whatever, who cares. And antiship would be against shipping. But it doesn't seem that way?? Because I can't wrap my mind around someone against shipping. And some people are like "proshippers DNI" and some people do the opposite. And that confuses me even more. What do you mean? If people ship stuff you don't want 'em near you? If they don't ship stuff?? It's tumblr, this feels like a relatively small issue but people make it a very big deal and I fear I may just be stupid.

Any help would be nice. I'd love to hear this explained from a neutral party, but folks from both sides will also do. It feels important and I haven't asked, so I feel now might be a good time.

so basically, the proship vs antiship Drama boils down to proshippers saying fiction is fiction, and even if you ship something that would, in real life, be really fucked up, since it's just fiction, it doesn't really matter

whereas antis insist that shipping anything that would be fucked up in real life (minors/adults, incest, etc) then you support that thing in real life and you're a Bad Person (and you should die)

it's honestly not much deeper than that, despite that fact that i could probably go on about it forever. one side says 'fiction is fiction, and as long as you tag properly, do whatever' and the other is sending death threats and accusing people of being pedophiles because they shipped the wrong ship (<- the way antis throw around the word pedophile is infuriating)

(if it was not obvious, i'm firmly against antis, even if i don't consider myself proship)

i do kinda get where antis come from, at least when you just take their arguments in a vacuum, but i've personally seen too much vitriol to ever give an anti the benefit of the doubt. like. people have died because of anti harassment. there's so many horror stories, and it's Not pretty

uh, basically that's it! hope that helped explain it?

Thanks! This helps a lot. I would like to see the other side of the argument as well, just to get the full picture. But as it is, the other side doesn't sound all that pleasant.

I cannot condone threats and stuff, and over something as mundane as fiction characters? I'm honestly gonna try and avoid this whole thing where I can, but I'm terrified that it'll come up again when I can't avoid it.