I read and ship femslash because it's relateable for me, and do enjoy crack ship because of it. I do not, however, spend my time trying to argue that it is "canon", and admit that it's crack. I also ship many het and slash pairings. Does this make me a bad person? (Also, couldn't one argue that there is almost no actual shipping in canon? Only a few things exist and many of them are one-sided.)
The short answer is: No. It does not.
In fact, even if you did do all of these annoying shipper things, you still wouldn’t really be a bad person. You’d be stupid and shallow, and you’d be terrible in pretty much every conceivable fashion. But you wouldn’t really be a bad person.
If anything this probably just makes me want to give you a hug.
Thinking on it, I haven’t really taken the time to properly explain myself in full for a very long time, if ever? This seems like a good enough opportunity to do so, so I’ll explain in full.
The long version:
Contrary to what I expect my reputation to have become, I’m actually not particularly easy to upset. I tend to keep myself deliberately angry a lot of the time, just for fun. But there’s really only one thing that is liable to make me genuinely upset.
And that’s when someone is just fundamentally lacking a sense of respect. For themselves, for others, for the world around them, for any given thing or for anything.
And that’s what really gets me when it comes to these sort of fans. Just how much they don’t care about anything. They don’t give a damn about the characters, or about the source material. They don’t care about reason or logic, biology or sexuality. They don’t care about the author, or their fellow fans. They don’t care about their own writing or even really themselves? How little respect do you have to have for yourself to just… not care about anything?