honestly it’s fine if you personally don’t like bumbleby, if you prefer other ships more, if their story isn’t your cup of tea, but if you’re not a wlw (woman loving woman, aka lesbian/bi/pan woman) you need to shut up about how much you hate it and how forced and awful and toxic it is.
i’ve seen so much lesbophobia, biphobia, misogyny, and victim blaming in the rwby fandom, and a lot of that (though certainly not all) is from anti-BB shippers. it’s become nearly impossible for me to take anti-BB shippers in good faith because i know they’re going to repeat homophobic talking points, insist wlw are delusional for seeing the romance that is clearly there to anyone not willfully ignorant or brain dead, etc.
yet bee shippers are stereotyped as “wasps” and “the most toxic part of the fandom” by people that are happy to recycle homophobic garbage, are only okay with wlw if they’re out of sight and out of mind or “fap material”, people who think smearing the creator’s name through the mud is a good retaliation against a ship they don’t like, people who hatewatch the show, people who call neo their loli waifu, people who kin adam taurus and want the bees to die
but wlw stand up for a ship that’s actually good representation, that many of us see our experiences reflected in, that gets so much hate because it’s wlw between two title characters, because they’re not one-sided and easily processed and they’re abuse victims with a complex and realistic relationship… but we’re the bad guys for being poked with a stick for years and finally responding with “actually, it’s canon, so shut up”