dazejazz:the anti-reylo tea today is on fire I’ve risen from my tumblr grave to tell y’a
dazejazz:the anti-reylo tea today is on fire I’ve risen from my tumblr grave to tell y’all that shipping isn’t activism.Y’all are using the language of social justice to bully people in to… what? Smashing the RIGHT barbies together in their little fandom corners? Y’all are holding the threat of accusing people of heinous stuff because they don’t like your ship?Lots of reylos I know ALSO ship Finn/Poe. Would you rather they ship Rey and Finn? Or Rey and Poe? Wow pretty homophobic of you tbhSee it’s easy to twist that narrative and twist people’s words to make them sound like some terrible bigot.There is plenty of room to criticize trends in fandom, and I’m not saying you shouldn’t, but there is a huge difference between saying ‘hey there’s this overarching trend we should maybe think about’ vs ‘if you, the individual do this, you are inherently a Bad Person©’The things people like in fiction, especially the things people like in the small fandom spaces they create, aren’t a a 1-to-1 reflection of their character or who they are as a person. And you can sit there and say “well i didn’t say a person was racist for liking reylo, just that the ship was racist.” Except you did because that’s what the implication is. You really think saying ‘this ship is INHERENTLY racist’ doesn’t basically translate to ‘and if you ship if you are also INHERENTLY racist’? I criticize media A LOT. Anyone who follows me knows that. But in criticizing media, we criticize trends. We criticize corporations. Large power structures held up by a collective and by people in power. Not Twitter Jim with 27 followers. By pointing out a person or small group of people and holding them up to say “YOU, personally, are the problem”, we do a disservice to actual activism. And that sucks. We suck for doing that to random people just trying to enjoy fandom shot among what… a handful of their friends and peers?This is just abusing the language of social justice and using it to make people interact with fiction and fandom the way YOU want them to, under threat of accusing them of being a bigot and potentially ruining them. That’s not social justice. That’s not activism. That’s just abuse.How’s this for a fandom hot take?Large portions of fandom that include shipping, fiction, and art are largely populated by women, PoC, and queer folks. Those same fandom spaces are held up to the HIGHEST scrutiny and suffer the greatest in terms of callouts canceling and dog piling over this kind of shit.Maybe stop and think about what might be INHERENT in your insistence on policing these people and their spaces so hard and dogpiling the people who don’t fall in line.(Also the whole POINT of this trilogy was to make Disney another billion dollars they don’t care about activism, and that’s that about that. Maybe be more concerned with what the worlds biggest mega corporation is doing than a dumb fandom joke by some twitter rando) -- source link