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[stardust_rifle]

i know i've complained about this before, but i hate when people go "oh if you ship (m/f ship) and not (m/m or f/f ship that shares characters) then you must be a homo/lesbophobe" because it just assumes that these two ships are exactly identical beyond the genders of the people involved and it just pisses me off- like do you honestly think these dynamics are so interchangeable that the only reason to prefer one ship over the other would be the difference in their genders?

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[palominocorn]

Based on how these people act, yeah, I think a number of them (not all) DO find most ships to be interchangeable except for gender/race/other privilege and power dynamics.

I remember seeing one person very insistently writing (and at least a few people uncritically reblogging) "if you ship this white man/white man ship, you HAVE to include this WOC (an ex/good friend) or else you're racist" as if the dynamics of a same sex OTP are the same as of a mixed-gender OT3.