Another westerner who thinks they can tell a Japanese what my own language is and what my own words mean. And caring about women and LGBT people makes this person tell me to “kys” and call my culture “weird” and their racism is “silly”
(Admin Note: The origin of the term “fujoshi” was when men in Japan, who were similar to what we currently refer to as conservative incels in the United States, were upset about women supporting queer content of any kind. These homophobic and misogynistic men would refer to these women as “rotten women,” as they were believed by these men to be unfit for marriage. The term was coined on Japanese message boards similar to 4chan in the late 90s/early 2000s. The term was specifically used by men who were angry that women spent more time uplifting, supporting, and creating queer content than looking for men to date, have sex with, and/or marry. Many of these women were stalked, sexually assaulted, and otherwise harmed by those who referred to them as fujoshi.
Fujoshi has NEVER meant “women who fetishize gay men.” The term was appropriated by Americans starting in 2005, specifically TERFs and incels, as a way to push for the censorship of queer content. Many people who are anti-terf will still use the term as a slur, even queer people themselves, as right-wingers have unfortunately been successful in spreading misinformation about this term in the west. This blindly negative usage of the teem is most common among younger Americans, usually under the age of 25, as many people under that age were only starting to come to dedicated online fandom spaces AFTER the term had been reclaimed, and thus the misinformation makes sense to them and was accepted without question.
Fujoshi as a term has widely been reclaimed, but when used in a derogatory context, it is still considered to be a queerphobic and misogynistic slur.)
like the term femboy. no, the word by itself is not a slur, but calling a transfem person who does not want to be called that turns the word into a slur.
Exactly. Fujoshi is a slur when used on someone as an insult.
Fujoshi is not a slur when someone who chooses to use it applies it to themselves.
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