Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25491743-20180209181244/@comment-1826156-20180414214839

Aine1989 wrote: The amount of Social Justice Warrior-ness in this fandom annoys me. First it was the "if you don't ship SQ you're homophobic/all CSers are straight" and "If you don't like Regina you're racist" but now CSers are saying that shipping Tiana/Hook (Cooking Utensil? Captain Cook?) is racist.

People gotta chillz it out. Amen to that! It is disgusting when people use their fandoms and shippings to virtue signal and attack others that disagree with them. I'm all for everyone having equality and freedom, but people like that abuse it. Being called sexist/racist/homophobic by those types is like being called braindead by a zombie.

I didn't even have a problem with people not liking the actual gay pairings in the fandom (Red/Dorothy for example) since I had my own issues with that pairing. But even had I been 100% on board with it, I wouldn't have thought someone was homophoic for not likling it unless they plainly stated they were against it for that reason. I wish it had been handled a little more like the Alice/Robin pairing insttead of feeling like a spur of the moment idea.

I will never ship SQ. Even if it became canon at some point (which it won't) I'd feel like it was forced for the vocal SQ fans. Emma and Regina have a great dynamic as it is and forcing them together just because some people see something that's not there would make me angry. It's not homophobia it's simply that it doesn't work and wasn't meant to. For the record, I was never much into the canon pairings of CS or SF either. But I accepted them as canon and enjoyed them for what they were.

No offense to the moderate SQ fans, but the worst of that group is part of the reason I think people view Once fans in such a negative light. Go on any Youtube video where Emma or Regina interact with anyone and you'll most likely see raging SQers bashing the character they are talking to or claiming SQ is a thing no matter what. It's pathetic.

​​That ship has already sailed. No, it sank and exists as it always has in fandom only. I remember that one "dwarf" speaking against the SQ community and getting ripped apart by everyone, including Lana and Jen if I remember right for being homophobic. (not sure if he actually was or if he was just demonized for saying it wasn't canon) Fast forward and most cast members and fans seem burnt out with the SQ community.

Thank goodness this is the rant and rave board. I'd feel awful posting so long of a semi-rant elsewhere.