Fanboy

A male fan, not necessarily juvenile. The term came into sf fandom from comics fandom. Fanboy provided a needed counterpart to femmefan, once the numbers of men and women in fandom began to even out. (Speer actually tried “he-fans,” but it didn’t take.)

Fanboy does, however, imply a certain geekiness that the distaff term does not. Note that fanboy has been adopted into the mundane vocabulary with entirely this derogatory, sense.

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Fanspeak

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