Barbie shipper

English

Etymology

Presumably from the likening of shipping characters to playing with Barbie dolls.

Noun

Barbie shipper (plural Barbie shippers)

1. (X-Files fandom slang, derogatory, dated) One who ships Fox Mulder and Dana Scully from the The X-Files.
   • 2001 July 10, Lizabeth V. Karaganis, “Re: Where to go in the 9th season?”, in alt.tv.x-files‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Normally, I don't respond to your kind of bullshit or the other mindless Barbie shipper/Duchovbot bullshit I've had to endure, but I couldn't let this pass.

   • 2002 January 22, Medie, “Re: RP & last seacon”, in alt.tv.x-files‎^[2] (Usenet):

     CC's gamble to have 'Mulder the Absent Center' may have appeased a few barbie shipper types but it also drove off a lot of the fanbase as well.

   • 2005 June 25, campylobacter, “Re: Never Again question”, in alt.tv.x-files‎^[3] (Usenet):

     There was a big deal about SCULLY'S CHASTITY = DEVOTION TO MULDER during the heyday of the Shipper versus Noromo wars. That "Barbie Shippers" faction of XF fandom is currently cloistering itself somewhere in really dreadful, schmoopy fanfic where no other character threatens the purity of their "deep, abiding luv".

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Barbie shipper.