Calling certain men "boys", like calling women "girls" has a long history within white supremacy & misogyny. For "boy", it's why African American men started referring to each other as "man": as a countermeasure to people steeped in white supremacy calling them "boys".https://twitter.com/Mikel_Jollett/status/1011255085773434880 …
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Replying to @o_guest
They do like 'old boys', though. As in 'old-boys-network'.
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Replying to @Villavelius
The context is different as "old boys" is about white dudes who went to the same public (fee-paying elitist) school. Also it clearly adds "old".
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In the UK it's particularly depressing: "between them, Harrow and Eton have 26 British prime ministers among their old boys." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_boy_network …
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Replying to @o_guest @Villavelius
Either way, the main and important difference is the phrase is self applied versus forced upon you by another group/person.
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