nothing exposes how brainless fandom’s adoption of r*dfem rhetoric is more than seeing it used to defend mlw ships. “at least there’s a woman involved” okay and you’re shipping that woman with a man? centring every part of her story around a man to validate your ship? so now what
and of course you can hc that character as a he/him sapphic but doesn’t that mean that people who ship him with other characters who are canon men can have those hcs too? or would you call that fetishization? or could it just be… that you forgot about trans and nblm entirely?
it’s sad because r*dfem/t*erf ideology is violent it’s not just cruel it kills people. i think most people saying these things ARE aware of that, but just act so thoughtlessly over ships/characters that inevitably getting this type of support surprises them when it rlly shouldn’t