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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Karin Schill" data-source="post: 83302">That's very true. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I would say yes. Even though I've also met a couple of male shippers over the years. Actually I studied different shipper groups within the Buffyverse when I wrote an undergraduate thesis at the University where I interviewed people from different shipper groups back in 2003. All together I interviewed 16 people and only 2 were men.I think the term shipper was first coined in the 1990s. The word comes from"Relationship".  The first time I came in contact with it was around 1999/2000 when I was very much into Buffy/Angel. Which ship you belonged to seemed to be very important back in those days and in some ways it shaped your preferred reading of the show.A shipper is someone who enjoys a particular relationship on the show the most. You wanted a specific couple to be together. Or at least end up together.You become very invested in the couple and typically read fanfics about that ship or make videos or fanart. I remember a girl in the Buffy fandom that had made over 100 Buffy/Angel videos from a quite limited material. The same scenes were used over and over. <img src="https://smileyshack.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/smileyslaughing_lol_hehe_100-102.gif?w=145&h=150"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":giggle:" title="Giggle    :giggle:" data-shortname=":giggle:" />Sometimes a shipper doesn't enjoy the character paired with anyone else but their preferred ship and if the couple you ship don't end up together it can ruin your entire enjoyment of a show on a whole. It hasn't happened to me but to some of my friends. So a shipper definitely want a happy ending.Within the Buffyverse there were silly shipper wars between different ships back in the early 2000s. I think the cancellation of Angel more or less put an end to those when the B/S and B/A shippers joined forces in a fan campaign with the aim to save the show. <img src="http://yoursmiles.org/ssmile/love/s0308.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hugs:" title="Hugs    :hugs:" data-shortname=":hugs:" />In Dallas fandom I would say some fans were shippers before the term were invented. The couples with the strongest following seem to be JR/SE, Bobby/Pam or Donna/Ray.In new Dallas I think the pairings some people shipped were John Ross/Elena, Chris/Rebecca or John Ross/PamBecca, Chris/Elena. But due to the couple switch after season one it made shipping on new Dallas hard to do and I think it divided some fans into those groups very early on.I think that explains what a shipper is. I hope you've found this helpful.</blockquote>

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