pro-shipper
English
Etymology
From pro- + shipper (“one who supports a romantic or sexual relationship between characters”). Some posit that the second sense originated as a blend of problematic + shipper.[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
pro-shipper (plural pro-shippers)
- (fandom slang) One who supports a specific ship or shipping in general. [since 1996]
- Synonym: shipper
- Antonyms: anti-shipper, non-shipper
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pro-shipper.
- (fandom slang) One who supports a ship or shipping deemed problematic (e.g., due to incest, age differences, abusive dynamics, etc.), and/or believes in the freedom to create and consume fanworks with such elements. [since 2010s]
- Synonyms: anti-anti, comshipper, (derogatory, vulgar) pro-shitter
- Antonyms: anti, anti-shipper
- 2020, Jessica Mason, "Hannibal’s Bryan Fuller Is Done With Your Anti-Ship BS", The Mary Sue, 13 October 2020:
- 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.
See also
References
- ^ Agnieszka Urbańczyk, "Finding a Dead Dove in the Refrigerator: The Anti-Shippers' Call for Exclusion of Sensitive Content as a Means of Establishing Position in the Field of Fan Production", Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, Volume 53, Number 3, page 416 (2022)
- ^ Samantha Aburime, "Hate narratives, conditioned language and networked harassment: A new breed of anti-shipper and anti-fan – antis", Journal of Fandom Studies, Volume 10, Issue 2-3 (2023)