So this week in the hellish landscape that is the internet, twitter user PerfectKeith has decided to appropriate and mock pride flags, aka things that exist to promote tolerance, acceptance, and peace, to justify harassing people on the internet over shipping by making a variety of ‘anti shipping flags.’
You know normally I’m not about callout culture, but this is just a whole new level of disgusting and I can’t not call this person out because I really do not know how you can think this is anything other than horrendously disrespectful to LGBTQ+ individuals and unbelievably ironic.
These are gross enough on their own, but we also need to talk about how the anti sh/idge flag looks suspiciously like something else.
This is the ‘anti sh/idge flag.’
This is the aromantic flag.
Keep your gross hands off pride flags. I honestly can’t believe someone thought this was an ok thing to do. It is horrendously disrespectful that you are appropriating pride flags to try and justify a movement of cyber bullying and abuse. It’s an insult towards everything pride flags stand for.
I really didn’t think anti movements could sink much lower but this beyond disgusting. You are vile and owe every single person in the LGBTQ+ community an apology.
The bnha fandom is on this stupid bandwagon too they’ve made anti bakudeku and even an anti mineta (which is butt ugly)
Fandom culture needs to fucking stop
Anti shipping movements will deadass stand there and say they’re doing what they do to protect LGBTQ+ individuals yet are literally out here appropriating and disrespecting pride flags and being incredibly disrespectful to the entire LGBTQ+ community y’all are fucking fakes and you know it just fucking admit it
You know I normally try to avoid fandom wank on my blog nowadays…but this is fucking disgusting. This is fucking insulting to queer pride flags and everything they stand for. The pride flags were made for love and acceptance, and now people are turning them into symbols of hate FOR FUCKING FANDOM DISCOURSE
Pride and LGBT+ Representation is 100000000x more important than your FUCKING CARTOON SHIP WAR.
There it is. I found the worst one.
For those who don’t know, Horikoshi is the mangaka of My Hero Academia. They’re against their own author.
There’s a clear difference between: “X person is actively and intentionally hurting me”, and “X person hurts me just by minding their own business because the thing they like doing while exercising their right to freedom of expression triggers me.”
No one is forcing you to ignore the content warnings and read the fic. No one is forcing you to go into the shipping tag of your NOTP which features your triggers. No one is forcing you to follow and/or engage with blogs that either positively –by supporting them– or negatively –by denouncing them– deal with the things you hate and/or trigger you.
The world is not responsible for the lack of responsibility you take for yourself. You are in possession of all the tools necessary to curate your own tumblr* experience and keep your triggers away from you. Those are boundaries that you have absolutely all the right to enforce, and if you find bloggers that crosstag and/or don’t tag their content, block them and/or report them (in case said untagged content is NSFW and/or against the TOS). But some random stranger chilling on their own blog, enjoying the content they like in their own specific tags…that has nothing to do with you personally.
*I don’t say internet and I don’t say life in general because tumblr fandom (and a few other spaces) is a microcosm that you shouldn’t be taking for granted. The triggers that we all use to warn one another of potentially triggering content? They basically don’t exist outside of here. If just the knowledge that X content exists triggers a panic attack then you need to seek therapy because I cannot imagine how you’re going to deal with walking into a library, or going to the cinema, or buying a videogame, or watching the daily news on TV. The world doesn’t come with trigger warnings to protect you, unlike fanon content.
Please, consider the amount of self-entitlement that comes with the demand that other people need to stop minding their own business because you personally aren’t comfortable with the existence of what they like, even though you can perfectly avoid it.
P.S. Please, also consider the guilt trip you’re trying to force on perfectly random strangers that don’t even know you exist by blaming them for your personal reactions to your personal triggers. Take care of yourself without trying to drag people down.
This guilt trip is such a blatant manipulation tactic that and they owe me and every victim of their bullshit an apology.
Do I really need to tell this asshole how antis have sent genital mutilation to 13 year olds, sexually harassed and tried to doxx a 12 year old, told a survivor they must’ve liked being raped by their father if they are pro ship, sent Holocaust photos to POC over a ship and worse.
As a survivor, I’ve had more emotional breakdowns directly because of them before I was even an anti anti Blog. I’ve watched them attack and dog pile people over nothing and try to push my friend to suicide when they admitted they were considering it. I’ve comforted too many victims to count. It’s not funny how many people are being attacked literally over nothing.
Blacklisting a tag is easy. Just Do It and leave people alone.
damn congrats on sending me the single most fucked up message i’ve ever been sent in my 9 years on tumble dot hell
look fam not everybody comes out of an incestuous abusive relationship the same way and idk how to explain to you that you should care about protecting ALL incest survivors, not just the sex-repulsed ones triggered by any portrayal of their abuse. that’s valid but hypersexual survivors like me who developed fucked up kinks as a result of having their worth devalued and boundaries repeatedly ignored are also valid
anyway reconsider your shitty opinions
antis: we’re against incest fics etc for the sake of protecting victims
also antis, to an Actual Incest Survivor: did you enjoy being raped by your father you dirty pervert
So this week in the hellish landscape that is the internet, twitter user PerfectKeith has decided to appropriate and mock pride flags, aka things that exist to promote tolerance, acceptance, and peace, to justify harassing people on the internet over shipping by making a variety of ‘anti shipping flags.’
You know normally I’m not about callout culture, but this is just a whole new level of disgusting and I can’t not call this person out because I really do not know how you can think this is anything other than horrendously disrespectful to LGBTQ+ individuals and unbelievably ironic.
These are gross enough on their own, but we also need to talk about how the anti sh/idge flag looks suspiciously like something else.
This is the ‘anti sh/idge flag.’
This is the aromantic flag.
Keep your gross hands off pride flags. I honestly can’t believe someone thought this was an ok thing to do. It is horrendously disrespectful that you are appropriating pride flags to try and justify a movement of cyber bullying and abuse. It’s an insult towards everything pride flags stand for.
I really didn’t think anti movements could sink much lower but this beyond disgusting. You are vile and owe every single person in the LGBTQ+ community an apology.
The bnha fandom is on this stupid bandwagon too they’ve made anti bakudeku and even an anti mineta (which is butt ugly)
Fandom culture needs to fucking stop
Anti shipping movements will deadass stand there and say they’re doing what they do to protect LGBTQ+ individuals yet are literally out here appropriating and disrespecting pride flags and being incredibly disrespectful to the entire LGBTQ+ community y’all are fucking fakes and you know it just fucking admit it
You know I normally try to avoid fandom wank on my blog nowadays…but this is fucking disgusting. This is fucking insulting to queer pride flags and everything they stand for. The pride flags were made for love and acceptance, and now people are turning them into symbols of hate FOR FUCKING FANDOM DISCOURSE
Pride and LGBT+ Representation is 100000000x more important than your FUCKING CARTOON SHIP WAR.