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femslash

noun

Etymology

From fem + slash.

  1. derived from *slītan✻ — “to slit, tear”
  2. derived from esclachier
  3. compounded as femslash — “fem + slash”

Definitions

  1. Slash fiction that focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female…

    Slash fiction that focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.

    • The demographics of femslash are a little more complicated than regular slash; stories are written by straight and lesbian women and sometimes straight men.
    • One of the driving forces behind slash and femslash is the pervading heterosexism of commercial media – if television will not give us the due proportion of same-sex eroticism we are entitled to expect, then we will make it for ourselves.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for femslash. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA