Fangirl

From TeeVeePedia, the Internet TV Encyclopedia.

The distaff counterpart to fanboy.

Fangirls are known for identifying with female television characters whom they feel reflect them most accurately. These characters are usually brainy, misunderstood, beautiful and yearned-after by the dreamy male lead.

Past objects of fangirl devotion include Dana Scully, Aeryn Sun, Willow Rosenberg and Sara Sidle.

Fangirls are most comfortable with UST, because it forestalls the possibility that the dreamy male lead will actually take up with a character who does not reflect the beautiful, brainy type. Also, it means that the fangirl and Dana Scully can continue to have something in common in their spinsterhood.

In addition to emotional transference, fangirls are also known for their pedantry, their penchant for over-analyzing every aspect of every episode of the show, and for their evangelical fervor in attempted conversion of the masses. Fangirls are also capable of hysterical hate campaigns when their wrath is provoked, but these are typically restricted to incoherent rants in their online journals, ineffective e-mail petitions, attempted fundraising efforts which result either in in-fighting or inexplicable trade press ads, and generally behaving in a way that is the exact opposite of the character with whom they identify.