Talk:soft boy

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soft boy

Recently added by anon. Can't tell if it's transitory slang or has some degree of lexical permanence. --Uisleach (talk) 17:05, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

I added some cites for this, but from what I could find, it could be considered NISOP. However, there is a clearer case to be made for softboy, which I have cited at Citations:softboy. To that end, I have made soft boy the alternative form. Kiwima (talk) 21:08, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

I think there are two distinct definitions: (1) a man who is not overly masculine – not quite effeminate, perhaps, but tending towards the effeminate side of the masculinity spectrum, (2) a man who acts in a not-overly-masculine way (showing vulnerability, talking about his feelings, being agreeable to cook and clean and go shopping, etc.) for the specific purpose of being attractive to women and thus increasing his chances of getting laid. Only the second sense is a hypernym of fuckboy (sense 3, “womanizer”). —Mahāgaja · talk 21:26, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Oooh, I've been called a softboy before. I forgot all about it. Definitely it exists and definitely there is more to it than sum of parts. That said, I think at least two of the cites we have at Citations:soft boy really are just sum of parts, since they are contrasted with hard later in the same paragraph. The citations for the unspaced spelling at citations:softboy indicate that there may be a range of meanings from just "a boy who is soft" to a term of abuse for either a boy or a full grown man. —Soap— 11:27, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 21:25, 10 August 2020 (UTC)