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Last updated: 05/17/2023

What exactly is PROSHIP?


The term 'proship' wasn't always around. It was coined as a response to 'anti-ship' - the mentality that fiction = reality on a 1:1 basis and that people are not allowed to enjoy or consume content deemed as 'problematic' without making them a supporter of said content in the real world as well.

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Here is an accurate description of what the term 'proship' means / what it means to be a proshipper ;;

Proship mentality is a sort of 'live and let live' outlook on fictional content and fictional shipping. Proshippers understand that fiction =/= reality on a 1:1 basis, and understand that people are allowed to enjoy 'problematic' content in media without it making said person inherently bad. They understand that you can like things in fiction without condoning said things in real life. Proshippers may not like certain content in fictional media, but will not go out of their way to harass, bully, or attack those who do. Proshippers do NOT all ship problematic content. Some do, while others dislike it. This is because - contrary to what some may say - proship is not all about liking problematic content - it is simply a term to define someone that does not believe in harassment over the type of ficitonal media that people consume or enjoy.
To be proship is to accept that others may not like the same things as you in fiction, and being mature about it. Proshippers believe that you should block people you do not want to interact with and protect yourself from content you do not want to see online, rather than to seek it out and bully those that produce or enjoy said content.

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!! FAQ !!


"Don't proshippers all like incest and pedophiliac content / ships though?"

No. Proshippers can not enjoy problematic content and still be proship! Proshipping is simply not harassing, bullying, or being an asshole to others based off the fictional content that they enjoy.

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"What did proship / being proship originate from?"

The term 'proship' was created in opposition of the term 'anti-ship', 'anti-proship', or 'anti'. However, being proship is nothing new. 'Proship' actually used to be the old norm on the internet in fandom spaces. The whole 'don't like, don't look', 'you can not like something and be a decent person about it', 'fiction doesn't make you a bad person' mentality used to be what most (* if not all *) people in fandom spaces used to live by.

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"Minors who identify as proship were groomed into it."

By saying this, you are pretty much saying that minors are not allowed to like fictional content with having been groomed. You are saying that minors are not allowed to enjoy certain media or certain content in fiction without the underlying reason for them liking such things being literal grooming. This statement couldn't be further from the truth. Minors can like 'problematic' content simply because they find it to be of interest to them. Minors - even if they are younger than adults - are still people. And every person's likes are different. If a minor enjoys something in fiction, that does NOT mean they were groomed into it.

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"The term 'proship' was used by pedophiles / for the pedophile community before the fandom community adopted the term."

False. The term 'proship' was coined as a response to the growing 'anti-ship' community. The term was not first used as a term for pedophiles to hide behind.

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"Proship means 'problematic ship', so you can't just say that proshippers don't ship problematic and gross content!"

The 'pro' in proship actually doesn't stand for 'problematic'. It simply works as a way to say 'for'. As in - proshippers are pro ( or for ) people being allowed to ship what they want in fiction without being harassed / proshippers will not go out of their way to harass people for what they ship.

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"Proshipping normalizes bad content in media such as rape, pedophilia, and grooming."

If you truly believe that people allowing others to ship what they want in fiction without harassing or sending them death threats is somehow 'normalizing' such things in the real world, I implore you to seek mental help of some sort. I mean this in the nicest way possible. People writing fanfictions for a fandom that has not even 1/100th the population of the entire world isn't going to normalize anything.

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"Proshippers tell antis to kill themselves, too! It's not just antis that do it!"

Nobody that tells another person to end their life over fiction is a proshipper. We do not claim them, and we are sorry that such things happened to you, but any person that does such things is NOT a proshipper. To be a proshipper is to not harass others based off what they ship / enjoy in fiction - telling someone to die is strictly against such practices.