Fannishness vs Mannishness - What's the difference?
fannishness | mannishness |
(fandom slang) The quality of being fannish; behaviour consistent with being a fan.
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1913
, date =
, first = Frederick Courtenay
, last = Barber
, authorlink =
, magazine =
, title = The Star Ball-Players and Their Earnings
, url = http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2870653;view=1up;seq=216
, volume = 49
, issue =
, page = 214
, passage = If you're an ordinarily enthusiastic fan, you may see it or you may not. If your fannishness is of the deckle-edged, double-breasted, inner-tube, twin-cylinder variety, you're sure to know it.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1959
, first = Richard "Dick" Harris
, last = Eney
, title = Fancyclopedia II
, section = True Fan
, url = http://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_II/tango.html
, passage = In connection with TAFF a furor arose over the definition of a Trufan, the active faction insisting that a trufan exhibit his quality by some sort of fanac -- crifanac for choice -- while others maintained that nomination to or interest in so stefnistic an enterprise as TAFF was sufficient to prove fannishness .
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 2012
, first = John
, last = Bale
, title = Roger Bannister and the Four-Minute Mile
, page = 11
, isbn = 9781134281367
, passage = It is not only my former fannishness that I bring to this book. I have a background as a (former) club-level runner, which means that, to some extent, I can identify with the protocols of running and racing.
}}