femslasher
femslasher noun: a person who writes femslash and/or supports female/female ships.
Noun
femslasher (plural femslashers)
- A person who writes femslash and/or supports female/female ships.
- Femslashers follow onscreen lesbian couples alongside their subtextual favorites and have often clamored for one of the latter characters to “come out” on television.2013, Julie Levin Russo, “Textual orientation: Queer female fandom online”, in Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner, Lisa McLaughlin, editors, The Routledge Companion to Media & Gender, page 457
- This erasure was criticized by both femslashers and nonwhite fans of other genres, who pointed out how these selections of what is considered noteworthy in fan texts perpetuate and reinscribe erasures and biases within fan communities (allofthefeelings 2015).2018, Rukmini Pande, Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race, page 165
Forms of femslasher
| plural | femslashers |
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Origin of femslasher
From femslash + -er.
Questions about femslasher
- What does femslasher mean?
- Femslasher means a person who writes femslash and/or supports female/female ships.
- What part of speech is femslasher?
- Femslasher is a noun.
- What is the plural of femslasher?
- The plural of femslasher is femslashers.
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