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I’m not really up on shipping because I’m not really a part of fandom, but what I’ve read about this topic suggests that rps/rpf is one of the aspects of shipping that can get kinda problematic.
Essentially, instead of writing a story about someone who’s fictional you’re looking at a character who’s meant to be a real person with a real life and real thoughts. Even in the best of circumstances, it’s still objectifying them by turning that person into a character in your story. And by turning them into a character you can present them however you want, regardless of who they actually are as a human being.
I know there are cases of rps/rpf that have negatively affected the subjects, such as the famous example of Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson from One Direction, because some people that shipped them created a conspiracy theory that they were both gay and secretly in a relationship, something that directly affected the friendship between Styles and Tomlinson when they found out about it.
So, while I don’t know if it’s definitively a bad idea, it seems like rps/rpf has the potential to cause harm while also being somewhat disrespectful to actual people. Wish I could say something more useful, but unfortunately, I just don’t know enough about this topic to have a really thought out answer.
I’m not really up on shipping because I’m not really a part of fandom, but what I’ve read about this topic suggests that rps/rpf is one of the aspects of shipping that can get kinda problematic.
Essentially, instead of writing a story about someone who’s fictional you’re looking at a character who’s meant to be a real person with a real life and real thoughts. Even in the best of circumstances, it’s still objectifying them by turning that person into a character in your story. And by turning them into a character you can present them however you want, regardless of who they actually are as a human being.
I know there are cases of rps/rpf that have negatively affected the subjects, such as the famous example of Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson from One Direction, because some people that shipped them created a conspiracy theory that they were both gay and secretly in a relationship, something that directly affected the friendship between Styles and Tomlinson when they found out about it.
So, while I don’t know if it’s definitively a bad idea, it seems like rps/rpf has the potential to cause harm while also being somewhat disrespectful to actual people. Wish I could say something more useful, but unfortunately, I just don’t know enough about this topic to have a really thought out answer.