There are a fair number of older antifujos who are usually one of the following:
1. Homophobic misogynistic men. This is the most common type you’ll see in animanga fandom as a whole, and where the term ‘fujoshi’ originally came from. Basically they hate women and they hate reading about mxm pairings, so they deride any woman (or man) into slash, and slash in general.
2. TERFs, SWERFs, transphobes and transmisogynists. They claim that ‘fujoshi’ means “straight females who fetishize gay male relationships” – by which they mean trans mlm, and wield it as an insult towards them. The current discourse here on tumblr was started by this type, hence the reason I call this the ‘TERF definition’ of fujoshi.
3. Trans men who are unaware that the current anti-fujo discourse was started by TERFs specifically as an anti-trans dogwhistle. They assume that the whole “straight females fetishizing gay male relationships” is referring to straight women harassing gay men, and mistakenly believe that’s what fujoshi means.
4. Fujoshi who don’t realise that they’re fujoshi. Women who read / write slash, and have mxm pairings, but are going through a “not like other girls” phase and insisting they’re not fujoshi because they only ship “pure” ships.
Only the first type is common in Japanese fandom – the others are US-centric and related to the antifujo discourse here on tumblr.
5. Former Fujos who are ashamed of their younger days because “anything I liked when I was 10-17 years old is cringe and stupid so in order to be ‘adult’ I have to violently hate all those things”
I’ve seen THAT type as well and they tend to be the ones who take it so personally
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