To start with - you do not shit on your fans. I don't care if you're pissed off about something. You do not insult a giant portion of your show's fanbase. Fans are the reason you have a show. Fans - especially in the case of Teen Wolf, which, in the beginning, had such a hard time gaining credibility - are so often what get a show noticed. And for him to say something so awful about a giant portion of the fans, and especially after Davis and the rest of the cast have, largely, been so supportive of Sterek, pretty much from the get-go - I couldn't believe it. And Hoechlin's and Holland's reactions pretty much summed up how badly Posey fucked up. I'd expect ship-shaming from the homophobic anti-Sterek portion of fandom that calls our ship pedophilia and calls Sterek shippers abuse romanticizers. I did not expect that kind of ship-shaming from a cast member - especially when Teen Wolf, from the start, has marketed itself as a show free of homophobia and judgement.
And secondly - so many people are like, "Oh, poor Posey, he's so sick of being asked about Sterek, stop asking him about Sterek," and good goddammit, guys. He wasn't asked about Sterek. Hoechlin was asked about potential love interests in Derek's life - including a mention of how so many fans would love to see Derek and Stiles together - and it was one question in a long series of questions, for each of the cast members. It was directed at Hoechlin, after Posey had finished discussing the relationships between Scott and Allison, and between Scott and Kira; and it was Posey who jumped in from out of nowhere. And the fact that he did so in such a horrible way that even the interviewer looked a bit shocked - again, I couldn't even believe it. You're upset because a good chunk of fandom loves Stiles and Derek, and watches the show mostly for these characters, and the relationship between them? Too bad. That doesn't give you the right to be a judgmental and borderline-homophobic jerk, and nothing gives an actor the right to tell people how to watch a show. People can watch shows for whatever reasons they want, period, as long as they're respectful about it; and for an actor to tell a giant portion of the fans that they're watching for the wrong reasons? It was a incredibly stupid thing to say, along with being so hurtful.
(Also the fact that Hoechlin kept it together and came back with something sweet and supportive to say about Derek and Stiles' relationship... the very epitome of why I love that man so much. ♥)
And... yeah. I'm just going to stop here, because I could rant about Posey's comments - and the way that fandom then became a giant homophobic bloodbath - all morning. I honestly still can't believe this even happened. And the hatred Sterek fans got from the rest of the fandom for having the goddamn audacity to be offended - it was disgusting. I saw one post telling Sterek shippers to drink cleaning fluid from under the sink. It's just like this one incident brought all the homophobic jerks out of the Teen Wolf woodwork en masse, and I really desperately want to hug everyone in the Sterek fandom who's been so hurt by all of this.
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Date: 2014-02-24 01:20 pm (UTC)To start with - you do not shit on your fans. I don't care if you're pissed off about something. You do not insult a giant portion of your show's fanbase. Fans are the reason you have a show. Fans - especially in the case of Teen Wolf, which, in the beginning, had such a hard time gaining credibility - are so often what get a show noticed. And for him to say something so awful about a giant portion of the fans, and especially after Davis and the rest of the cast have, largely, been so supportive of Sterek, pretty much from the get-go - I couldn't believe it. And Hoechlin's and Holland's reactions pretty much summed up how badly Posey fucked up. I'd expect ship-shaming from the homophobic anti-Sterek portion of fandom that calls our ship pedophilia and calls Sterek shippers abuse romanticizers. I did not expect that kind of ship-shaming from a cast member - especially when Teen Wolf, from the start, has marketed itself as a show free of homophobia and judgement.
And secondly - so many people are like, "Oh, poor Posey, he's so sick of being asked about Sterek, stop asking him about Sterek," and good goddammit, guys. He wasn't asked about Sterek. Hoechlin was asked about potential love interests in Derek's life - including a mention of how so many fans would love to see Derek and Stiles together - and it was one question in a long series of questions, for each of the cast members. It was directed at Hoechlin, after Posey had finished discussing the relationships between Scott and Allison, and between Scott and Kira; and it was Posey who jumped in from out of nowhere. And the fact that he did so in such a horrible way that even the interviewer looked a bit shocked - again, I couldn't even believe it. You're upset because a good chunk of fandom loves Stiles and Derek, and watches the show mostly for these characters, and the relationship between them? Too bad. That doesn't give you the right to be a judgmental and borderline-homophobic jerk, and nothing gives an actor the right to tell people how to watch a show. People can watch shows for whatever reasons they want, period, as long as they're respectful about it; and for an actor to tell a giant portion of the fans that they're watching for the wrong reasons? It was a incredibly stupid thing to say, along with being so hurtful.
(Also the fact that Hoechlin kept it together and came back with something sweet and supportive to say about Derek and Stiles' relationship... the very epitome of why I love that man so much. ♥)
And... yeah. I'm just going to stop here, because I could rant about Posey's comments - and the way that fandom then became a giant homophobic bloodbath - all morning. I honestly still can't believe this even happened. And the hatred Sterek fans got from the rest of the fandom for having the goddamn audacity to be offended - it was disgusting. I saw one post telling Sterek shippers to drink cleaning fluid from under the sink. It's just like this one incident brought all the homophobic jerks out of the Teen Wolf woodwork en masse, and I really desperately want to hug everyone in the Sterek fandom who's been so hurt by all of this.