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Noun: "(informal, fandom slang, sometimes derogatory) a female fan of yaoi or more broadly of slash fiction"
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- 2010, Dienfang Chou, "Exploring the Meaning of Yaoi in Taiwan for Female Readers: From the Perspective of Gender", Intercultural Communication Studies, Volume 19, Number 1, page 82:
- They consider themselves “Fujo” (Yaoi readers or creators are referred as “Fujoshi” in Japanese) and they have been reading Yaoi for more than five years.
- 2020 January 27, Bingpup I Love You!! (@sdm_qqb), Twitter[4]:
- If you're in the danmei fandom, you are a fujo.
You're consuming work made for fujos. You're consuming work made by fujos.
If you can't handle this concept, then get out of this fandom and stop reading danmei novels. This literally wasn't made for you.
- 2020 September 22, @shipperinjapan, Twitter[6]:
- I think I disagree with the term "fujobait" on a fundamental level bc 99% of the time it's used to trash series enjoyed by women, essentially being shorthand for "only brainless fujos could enjoy this crap", instead of conveying information of any actual value.
- 2021, anonymous, quoted in Bakhrul Khair Amal, Supsiloani, Daud, Dina Ampera, & Muhammad Natsir, "The Analysis of Fantasy and Representation of Female on Gay and Male Homoerotic Relationships in the Yaoi Genre", Asian Social Science and Humanities Research Journal, Volume 3, Number 2, September 2021, page 62:
- I never thought that I would become Fujo, because I used to be really anti-gay, gay, etc. because I grew up in a religious family. At first I only intended to be friends with Naruto anime fans, but it turns out there are fujo.
- 2022, Kota Nozomi (trans. Tristan K. Hill), When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace, Volume 1, unnumbered page:
- "So, while I'm personally self-aware of the fact that I'm a fujoshi," she continued, "I would still be upset if someone were to say, 'You're into that fujoshi crap?' or call me a 'nasty fujo' to my face. […]