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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I was talking about English though, just to be 100% clear.
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I know. I just find these differences between languages (and indeed sociolects) interesting.
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