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I feel like this relates to something much bigger.
I feel like Proshippers need to realize that just because someone likes something doesn't mean they're proship. The only two things required to be a Proshipper are:
1. Anti-Censorship
2. Anti-Harassment
That's it. That's all you need.
Someone can like lolisho and not be proship because they'll harass people.
Someone can like non-con and not be proship because they think fanfic of underage characters shouldn't exist.
Someone can selfship and not be proship because they'll judge Proshippers who also self ship and gate keep.
Selfshipping started in the Proship community, yes. But everything that happened in fandom started with the Proship community because Proship used to be the fandom standard.
"proship DNI!!!"
What kind of proship? Yumeship? RPF? Selfship RPF? Darkship? Shipping in general?
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hot take of my own. i do not believe selfshipping is proshipping because most folks in the community are ficto, therefore making selfshipping a byproduct of human sexuality and not something that can be claimed by an ideology such as proshipping. people have been, without a term for it itself, been selfshipping as early as the written language was made. unfortunately though last time i said that on my main account, i was harassed and told i wasn't a real proshipper for having a different opinion on this (because obviously, you cannot disagree with your own community. sarcasm.)