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[astridv]

Okay, here's what I gathered from certain corners of the fandom: before the Hydra reveal, shipping Ward with Simmons instead of Skye was racist. However now, shipping him with Skye is racist. I shipped him with Skye and Simmons before and I ship him with Skye and Simmons now, so that means... what? Do they cancel each other out or what? These people are so confusing. (And by confusing I mean moronic.)

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[astridv]

I'm all for "if you always ship white couples or if you always pair the non-white characters together in the background, take another look at that."

See, that is absolutely a discussion worth having. Only in this case Skyeward has always been the most popular pairing, and Ward/Simmons a fringe ship, and this argument only makes sense if you look at trends. And there never was a trend of Simmons overshadowing Skye in fandom. So every single aspect of this is completely pointless and boggleworthy.