soy boy
- noun
- /sɔɪ bɔɪ/
- Slur
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[insulto despectivo para hombre afeminado]
- He was teased for being a soy boy because he preferred tofu over steak.
Examples
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Some people label men who choose vegan diets as soy boys when discussing masculinity.
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Many online commenters mocked him as a soy boy for his views on traditional masculinity.
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But why be some soy boy beta cock who drinks that pre workout supplement?
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So that is like the perfect convergence of like if you're like a anti soy boy seed oils person, like these ribs are not for you.
Surface Forms
Morphology
soy + boy
This is recent internet slang and a derogatory label whose insulting sense (an adult man perceived as weak or effeminate due to association with soy) is not directly derivable from the literal meanings of 'soy' (a legume) and 'boy' (male child). The cultural and ideological associations that give the phrase its pejorative force are specific and not transparently compositional, so a B1 learner who knows the words would not reliably infer the idiomatic meaning without exposure.
Etymology
Soy boy comes from online talk about food and being a man. One popular story says people linked soy with female hormones and used boy to mean a man, so the phrase paints the image of a man who is 'weak' or 'not traditionally masculine', which is why it is used as an insult.
