A Vindication of the Rights of Shippers (and fans in general)

[eilowyn]

This was originally a comment on Red_satin_doll's journal, but I decided to expand on it a little bit

Comments

[simonf]

"What bothers me is when people dismiss shippers as all being "problematic" or "troublesome" or "the reason why fandom is so terrible.""

Some of us have very long memories and got fed up with shippers shouting us down. This helped to kill off the general online Buffy fandom in 2003-2005.

[gillo]

There is a difference between the behaviour of some shippers and the activity of all.

[sueworld2003]

There's extremists in all parts of fandom and not just shippers. So to focus on one particular group is just snobbery imo.

[sueworld2003]

Not in Simon's eyes apparently. :(