non-shipper
English
Etymology
non- + shipper
Noun
non-shipper (plural non-shippers)
- (fandom slang) One who does not have any ships or does not support a particular ship.
- 1999, Darcy Rice, "An Advocate of Perfection", Orange Coast Magazine, June 1999, page 38:
- The non-shipppers are those fans who are opposed to Ham and Mac having a relationship.
- 2013, Leora Hadas, "Resisting the romance: ‘Shipping’ and the discourse of genre uniqueness in Doctor Who fandom", European Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 16, Issue 3 (2013), page 337:
- In these terms, Ten/Rose has a highly privileged position among Doctor Who pairings, and it seems that this position exactly engenders a powerful resistance to it among non-shippers.
- 2015, Rebecca Williams, Post-Object Fandom: Television, Identity and Self-narrative, page 108:
- Given that the final season of The West Wing itself officially sanctioned the relationship, non-shippers could no longer rely upon the ambiguity of producers' statements as 'evidence' to verify that the romance existed only in the minds of shippers.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:non-shipper.
- 1999, Darcy Rice, "An Advocate of Perfection", Orange Coast Magazine, June 1999, page 38:
Synonyms
- (one who opposes a ship): anti-shipper