Citations:fujo

English citations of fujo

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.

• 2019 August 8, @anonflail, Twitter‎^[1]:

  Gosh I’m so tired of people using “fujos” as easy scapegoat.
  You like Japanese M/M? Guess what you’re a FUJO. No matter your sexuality. That’s the definition. Don’t bring your weirdass American re-definitions into this.

• 2019 October 25, mahi alina (@noctupavo), Twitter‎^[2]:

  people be like “fujos suck and fetishize gay men” and then talk about their favorite BL 😳😳

• 2019 December 14, nusrat⁷ (@toorumlk), Twitter‎^[3]:

  if i’m being honest rn i’m always so scared of accidentally feeding people who fetishize lgbt,, especially mlm fetishizers and fujos.

• 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 July 20, peony (@p_e_0_n_y), Twitter‎^[5]:

  Women being “anti-fujos” and policing other women (or whoever they decide to call “women”) is just the new sex-negative, faux-woke “not like other girls”.

• 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 January 14, noodle (@instanttnuudle), Twitter‎^[7]:

  Funniest thing I see antis do is that they go “fujos fetishize gay men so fucking gross” and they go and retweet contents from actual Japanese fujos with “腐” in their bio

• 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.

• 2021 October 13, V-gétarienne (@bizzaroren), Twitter‎^[8]:

  A lot of the people very serious about hating “fujoshis” would be considered fujos themselves, so many of them also have mlm ships but they’re “doing it right” while tilting at imaginary foes to demonstrate how much better they are

• 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. […]