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I hate the double standards of shippers

I'm so frustrated by the toxicity and double standards of so many communities, but especially shippers!

Just as an example – Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy has reignited one of the more infamous shipping wars, Cloud/Tifa and Cloud/Aerith. I won't go deep into spoiler territory (mostly because I could go on for an hour why I think Aerith is so good for Cloud) but the moment anyone dares to suggest shipping Cloud/Aerith in particular, there's a flood of comments about how Aerith is a "homewrecking plain village whore" and is "betraying Zack" (her first boyfriend who hasn't contacted her for years and she thinks is probably DEAD). All of this is probably worsened by how it went in the OG: Tifa arguably "won" and Cloud/Tifa is basically canon in the expanded universe, so it's by far the more popular ship.

Standard toxic shipping stuff, amiright? Well, there's a lot of male/male shipping in the fandom (Cloud/Sephiroth, Cloud/Zack, etc.) and there isn't a hint of the vitriol happening there! And as the cherry on top of the whole issue, this is what Tifa looks like and this is what Aerith looks like. I can't help but feel that a LOT of male gamers are just simping for Tifa because she's sexy and basically ignoring Aerith because she's "plain." So in other words, sexy girl is better, plain girl is "intruding/overreaching" on the relationship, and male/male relationships aren't any competition.

I'm sure people could list other shipping communities where these double standards are common, but I'm just SO SICK of it.

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  1. I know this doesn’t have anything to do with a game, but I have the same problem with people who ship Midoriya and Bakugo from my hero academia. Like I’m not a hardcore watcher and I haven’t seen a lot of the later seasons, I also know he gets like a character arc and stuff, it’s also not a huge deal cause I just stay away from it anyway, but I just know that when someone bullies you most of your life and then tells you to jump off a building, you tend to not want to date that person, even if you become friends afterwards.

  2. Yes misogyny is a really pervasive element in romantic anything.

    They’re both insanely hot by the way, terminally online people just think Aerith is plain because she’s wearing a long skirt and a cardigan instead of a tank top and a miniskirt. I’m not gonna pretend I’m not more into the miniskirt, but the sad little nerds that call her fugly would piss themselves with excitement if she looked at them twice

  3. Shipping in general is one of the more toxic elements of a fandom. I frequently keep away from spaces that explicitly call themselves “fandom” because to me it got associated with shippers sending death threats over not shipping the same thing

  4. That’s an interesting on one Tifa vs Aerith’s appearance, I’d have thought, given the usual raging sexism about these things, that people would go the other way, ie, “Tifa is too butch and basically a man, Aerith is actually a good pretty femme woman and therefore right choice”

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