it's the same crap with Booster Gold and Blue Beetle (the Ted Kord one, not the Jaime Reyes one). Not every same sex pair of friends need to be shipped, OK? And don't even get me started on the people that want Damian Wayne and Jon Kent to make out even though they are both goddamn minors.
I hate shipping for many reasons, including that the women (and it's almost all women) doing it think that it's not just their version of porn, and will constantly go off about the male gaze and the breasts of women in comics while drooling over their preferred pairings, as if they're not essentially the same things, just men are more visual than women.
I hate that no characters can be friends in their eyes, that people only like each other because they want to have sex. They perpetuate the stereotype that men only think about sex and can't form meaningful relationships with
anyone without wanting to fuck, and then in the same breath complain that men won't show their emotions as if they haven't demonstrated how little they think of men's capability to feel.
But I especially hate that their moral puritanism about straight male sexuality runs completely counter to how often they sexualise the underaged, acting as if straight men wanting to see attractive women is horrific misogyny but there's nothing remotely creepy or pedophilic about their romantic/sexual fantasies involving men who can't legally consent.
I've seen a university lecturer describe slash as the most transgressive of forms, because it's nearly all women, it's done by fans not creators, and it's queer. They neglected to mention that it's shit, it's borne from a toxic mindset, and is often in the service of characters who are underaged and would be REEEEEEEd about forever if they were women. That they're so self-important about it just makes it all the more annoying.
I'm a little surprised, actually, that none of the anti-CG types have realised that heart-eyed shipping of various CG characters could annoy the people they're opposed to, like writing slash involving Vox Day's characters. But that would take imagination, a willingness to expose themselves to wrongthink, and effort, and they seem to be extremely low on all three.
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