My TED Talk on Reylo
Dec. 16th, 2018 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI don't ship Reylo because I don't have any particular attachment to the characters or the franchise, but every so often I'll see cute Reylo art or comics that make me smile. The pairing isn't to my taste, but a lot of things aren't, you know? I've blocked people whose work upsets me, but most of the Reylo content I see on Tumblr and Twitter is silly and harmless.
I'm therefore surprised by people who go out of their way to tell everyone that REYLO IS ABUSE, as if someone's stupid Star Wars ship is on the same level as, like, the U.S. Senate confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Honestly, the only thing I hear when someone tries to pass off fandom ship wars as social justice activism is "I don't like it when women have fantasies and tell stories that I do not personally approve of," which really isn't all that different from the misogynistic purity culture of religious fundamentalism.
Thank you for listening.
I'm therefore surprised by people who go out of their way to tell everyone that REYLO IS ABUSE, as if someone's stupid Star Wars ship is on the same level as, like, the U.S. Senate confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Honestly, the only thing I hear when someone tries to pass off fandom ship wars as social justice activism is "I don't like it when women have fantasies and tell stories that I do not personally approve of," which really isn't all that different from the misogynistic purity culture of religious fundamentalism.
Thank you for listening.
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Date: 2018-12-16 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-17 10:16 am (UTC)even if I hate to admit it b/c Reylo squicks the fuck out of meno subject
Date: 2018-12-19 12:47 pm (UTC)