Femlock

Sometimes the thematically focused groups are a clear subset of shippers, such as teenlock, femlock, vamplock, or fawnlock (respectively describing John Watson/Sherlock Holmes as teens, women, vampires, or young deer).

As the fandom of BBC Sherlock, English and Japanese alike, is predominantly female, it comes as no surprise that a lot of fans have taken this matter upon themselves by cosplay. Thus, this makes up for a big part of the Femlock content available online.

Fan-created versions of characters like 'Femlock' (female Sherlock) allow adolescent girls to create a world where they can incorporate all the atavistic traits of 'boy heroes' into female characters.