what they say: oh how can you ship that, one of the characters is a bad person, are you a survivor using the ship for coping?

what they mean: i have little to no understanding of how fiction works and how people interact with it. i genuinely believe enjoying actions in fiction means condoning them in reality, and i don’t have any understanding of the transformative nature of fandom. i think it’s my job to go around to people i don’t even know and demand they submit their extremely personal history of trauma to me so that i might decide if they are Traumatized Enough to be permitted to enjoy their fictional content. and by logical extension, if someone is unwilling to submit to this query of their background or if they *aren’t* Traumatized Enough, then they are a Bad Person and I will start a hate campaign against them about how they get off to IRL abuse/rape. and i’ll pat myself on the back as i do it because i’m more Pure than they are, i am a Better Person, and that insulates me from having to do any critical thinking about fiction in my entire life. (also i am lowkey jealous that fandom enjoys things that i don’t like so i’m just THRILLED to have an excuse to shit on the people who like the thing that i don’t.)