#know your tumblr herstory... lest you repeat it

[toxship-toxy]

Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one who remembers how wayyyy back when, proshippers (which weren't even called "proshippers" yet!) started relatively synchronous (as in orbital) to the anti-SJW movement, and were like that for a while, and it makes me feel a little crazy since no one ever brings it up. I guess almost none of the evidence for it would be findable anymore since a lot of the original discourse blogs from that time are deactivated or terminated, but I was there and I swear it happened...!

It may sound a bit far-fetched to the contemporary discourser since the proship movement fancies itself so left-leaning and open-minded, but back then ““egalitarianism”” was in vogue, and "don't tell me what to ship, stupid antis" paired like a fine wine with "don't censor me, filthy SJWs"... How times change!

Anyway remember yoonbum-in-drag/careforacuppatea? Person that every anti and their dog hated for a while, and proshippers passed her posts around all the time a few years back? She changed her url and is now a zealously conservative christian, gun nutty, tradwifery-shilling, drag-queen-hating, anti-choice, anti-contraception, slut-shaming prudish transphobe! ... but y'know what? She's still into the same kinds of ships as before.

Guess proshippers have a point: Your taste in media and fanart really doesn't say too awful much about your politics or values as a person.