Talk:Bade/@comment-5002211-20120526035914/@comment-5129552-20120526062101

That's not exactly true. Shipping has been around for a long time. People in Louisa May Alcott's time shipped Jo&Laurie from "Little Women" so hard and wrote her letters about them, that she made them NOT end up together just to spite them. And even slash-shipping has been around since the sixties, with Kirk&Spock from Star Trek TOS.

It's just a lot more prominent now with the Internet--making it easy for shippers to congregate and argue and unfortunately, to bash each other. The anonimity makes it easy for people to act like the worst version of themselves, and the instantaneous nature of Internet-based communication makes people more prone to writing things without having thought them through. I imagine, back then, when they could only write letters and post their thoughts and magazine and newspapers that they sounded a lot more civil and intelligent, because they took time with their communications.

But shipping is nothing new. Mankind has always been fascinated by love, romantic love, to be specific.