pro-shipper

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From pro- +‎ shipper (“a seaman; mariner; skipper.”)

Adjective

pro-shipper (comparative more pro-shipper, superlative most pro-shipper)

  1. (law, sometimes derogatory) Supportive of maritime transport, especially as opposed to railway transport. [since 1909]
    • 1909 May 16, “Looking For Trouble”, in Charles Ransom Miller, editor, The New York Times, volume 58, number 18470, New York: The New York Times Company, page 8:
      Perhaps an even more important point is the disclosure of the Commission's anti-railway pro-shipper point of view.
    • 1915 December 25, The Traffic Service News Bureau, “The Congressional Inquiry”, in The Traffic World, volume 16, number 26, IHS Maritime & Trade, page 1334:
      Thorne and the other radical pro-shipper men, it is believed, however, might oppose the proposition on the theory that the Federal Commission, as now constituted, has too tender a regard for the railroads.
    • 1931 December 26, E. A. Jack, “Bureaucracy’s Increasing Power Threatens Private Ownership”, in Samuel O. Dunn, editor, Railway Age, volume 91, number 26, Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, page 977:
      In fact, the decisions of the Commission during this period were so notoriously pro-shipper that railroad owners were very much concerned, —it looked like confiscation.
    • 1989, Richard Lande, Railway law and the National Transportation Act, Toronto: Butterworths, →ISBN, page 10:
      Therefore, one could reasonably conclude that the policy development which transpired from the 1983 CTC preliminary report to the 1984 CTC Final Report, and then to the draft legislation, followed the increasingly pro-shipper tendency.
Usage notes

The term was criticized in a 1938 Traffic World article: "Pro-railroad and pro-shipper are ridiculous terms because they mean nothing to anyone who knows anything about the way things shape before the Commission in practically everything."[1]

References

  1. ^ “Sometimes the Commission Can Act with Speed”, in Traffic World, volume 51, number 6, 11 February 1933, page 268

Etymology 2

From pro- +‎ shipper (“one who supports a romantic or sexual relationship between characters”). Some posit that the second sense originated as a blend of problematic +‎ ship.[1][2]

Noun

pro-shipper (plural pro-shippers)

  1. (fandom slang) One who supports a specific ship or shipping in general. [since 1996]
    Synonym: shipper
    Antonyms: anti-shipper, non-shipper
    • 1996 July 9, Chris Byler, “Re: 'PUSHER was a 'Shipper!! *gak*!”, in alt.tv.x-files‎[1] (Usenet):
      I think this whole thing is a semantic misunderstanding.. the anti-shippers and the pro-shippers are putting entirely different meanings into the phrase 'in love'.
    • 1997 April 25, Terry Luck, “Re: 'SHIPPERS SUCK!!!!”, in alt.tv.x-files‎[2] (Usenet):
      For all you pro-shippers and anti-shippers keep posting and debating. Someone is watching you.
    • 1997 November 24, Susan J. Daniell, “Re: Shippy parts lead into MOVIE!!”, in alt.tv.x-files‎[3] (Usenet):
      As a pro-shipper, I think it's gonna be a long season. Will spring ever get here?
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pro-shipper.
  3. (fandom slang) One who supports a ship or shipping deemed problematic (e.g., due to incest, age differences, abusive dynamics, etc.), and/or believes in the freedom to create and consume fanworks with such elements. [since 2010s]
    Synonyms: comshipper; (derogatory, vulgar) pro-shitter
    Near-synonym: anti-anti
    Antonyms: anti-shipper, anti
    • 2020, Jessica Mason, "Hannibal’s Bryan Fuller Is Done With Your Anti-Ship BS", The Mary Sue, 13 October 2020:
      Things, let’s say, escalated very quickly, with pro-shippers and anti-shippers going at each other over all sorts of nonsense that was obviously a bit hard to follow.
    • 2021, Victor Larsen, "'It Makes Me, A Minor, Uncomfortable': Media and Morality In Anti-Shippers' Policing of Online Fandom", thesis submitted to Ghent University, page 16:
      Pro-shippers argued back that depiction was not endorsement, especially if creators tagged their works with the applicable warnings, such as “abuse” or “emotional blackmail”.
    • 2021, Allegra Rosenberg, "'Writing To Cope': Anti-Shipping Rhetoric in Media Fandom", paper presented at the Electronic Literature Organization 2021: Platform (Post?) Pandemic conference, page 7:
      What is seen by pro-shippers as simply the desire for everyone to be able to write, draw, and publish what they want, even if it offends or “squicks,” is viewed by anti-shippers as unforgivably harmful.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pro-shipper.
See also

References

  1. ^ Agnieszka Urbańczyk, "Finding a Dead Dove in the Refrigerator: The Anti-Shippers' Call for Exclusion of Sensitive Content as a Means of Establishing Position in the Field of Fan Production", Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, Volume 53, Number 3, page 416 (2022)
  2. ^ Samantha Aburime, "Hate narratives, conditioned language and networked harassment: A new breed of anti-shipper and anti-fan – antis", Journal of Fandom Studies, Volume 10, Issue 2-3 (2023)

Further reading

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