fujo
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Clipping of fujoshi, from Japanese 腐女子 (ふじょし, fujoshi, literally “rotten girl”).
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fujo (plural fujos or fujo)
- (informal, fandom slang, sometimes derogatory) A female fan of yaoi or more broadly of slash fiction.
- 2010, Dienfang Chou, “Exploring the Meaning of Yaoi in Taiwan for Female Readers: From the Perspective of Gender”, in 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.
- 2022, Kota Nozomi, translated by 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. […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fujo.
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