Yeah…I do get how annoying and just inaccurate it can be, especially when they’re used, it feels like, in service of personal biases and ships but I feel it’s also an inevitable side effect of people mainly learning about these things in the same exact place where they’re participating in fandom. And that goes for a lot of “social justice” matters, which is how you’ll see people fighting over the superiority of their ship because of how Progressive it is.
So I feel…yes, I hope people do learn to apply some goddamn nuance and good faith and self-awareness, but I also don’t think it’s entirely horrible that people are thinking more about this kind of thing in general. It’s better to learn at all, right. It just…how is it not spilling into its own toxicity, you know, where every little action and mistake is scrutinized and never forgiven. 😡