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FemShep

FemShep proper noun: the female version of the Commander Shepard player character in the Mass Effect series.

Proper noun

FemShep

  1. (slang) The female version of the Commander Shepard player character in the Mass Effect series.
    • Playing as FemShep hints that the game world's claims to gender equality may be overstated.2017, Lynda Clark, “Commander Shepard”, in Jaime Banks, Robert Mejia, Aubrie Adams, editors, 100 Greatest Video Game Characters, page 44
    • Interestingly, this seems the reason why FemShep is considered to be one of the most popular heroines in gaming history (Cobbett 2012: online), or even one of gaming's first true feminist and feminine protagonists (Hillier 2011).2018, Silvia Pettinni, “Gender in Game Localization: The Case of Mass Effect 3's FemShep”, in Irene Ranzato, Serenella Zanotti, editors, Linguistic and Cultural Representation in Audiovisual...

Origin of FemShep

From fem- + Shep.

Questions about FemShep

What does FemShep mean?
FemShep means the female version of the Commander Shepard player character in the Mass Effect series.
What part of speech is FemShep?
FemShep is a proper noun.

Words near FemShep in the dictionary

  1. feMRAs
  2. Femroe
  3. Femroth
  4. fems
  5. fems.
  6. FemShep
  7. femslash
  8. femslasher
  9. femslashers
  10. femspeak
  11. femsplain

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