pro-shipper
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English
Etymology
Noun
pro-shipper (plural pro-shippers)
- (fandom slang) One who supports a specific ship or shipping in general, even in cases where a ship is deemed problematic (e.g., due to incest, age differences, or abusive dynamics). [since 1996]
- Synonym: shipper
- Antonyms: anti, anti-shipper, non-shipper
- 2020 October 13, Jessica Mason, “Hannibal’s Bryan Fuller Is Done With Your Anti-Ship BS”, in The Mary Sue:
- Things, let’s say, escalated very quickly, with pro-shippers and anti-shippers going at each other over all sorts of nonsense that was obviously a bit hard to follow.
- 2021, Victor Larsen, "'It Makes Me, A Minor, Uncomfortable': Media and Morality In Anti-Shippers' Policing of Online Fandom", thesis submitted to Ghent University, page 16:
- Pro-shippers argued back that depiction was not endorsement, especially if creators tagged their works with the applicable warnings, such as “abuse” or “emotional blackmail”.
- 2021, Allegra Rosenberg, "'Writing To Cope': Anti-Shipping Rhetoric in Media Fandom", paper presented at the Electronic Literature Organization 2021: Platform (Post?) Pandemic conference, page 7:
- What is seen by pro-shippers as simply the desire for everyone to be able to write, draw, and publish what they want, even if it offends or “squicks,” is viewed by anti-shippers as unforgivably harmful.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pro-shipper.