Those who’ve been reading my threads may have noticed that I assign a lot of importance to the label “anti-harassment.”

The obvious relevance is that pro-shippers have often equates being pro-ship to being anti-harassment, for obvious reasons.

But I’ve actually been calling myself anti-harassment since before I’d ever called myself pro-ship.

And when I say I’m anti-harassment, that isn’t just about holding other people to some arbitrary standard, but about holding *myself* to a higher standard

In order to be anti-harassment, you must realize that you are physically incapable of punishing others or otherwise stopping them from doing something you don’t like without causing unnecessary suffering to everyone around you

Even if someone is doing something really actually bad, harassment wouldn’t solve anything, it would just double the problems

And you must not only know this, but act on it too. You cannot tolerate harassment of *any* form.

You need to be able to think about what people are saying to you, and be able to recognize harassment whenever it occurs.

And you absolutely must support the victims of that harassment.

If I see other people claiming to be anti-harassment while showing a flippant disregard for these principles, then I am going to call them out on it.

And if you ever see me contradicting any of these, then you should call me out on it too!

Being anti-harassment isn’t your performative “BAD THING IS BAD” - it is a serious proclamation

And for those of us who call ourselves “anti-harassment,” it should be a reminder to examine our own behavior and to constantly improve ourselves