All political views should end with the word boy in a southern voice.
All political views should end with the word boy in a southern voice.
This would be a quick way to see of it's racist, close minded, or just straight bs.
Ex1- You want women to kill babies, boy!
Ex2- You want to feed the homeless, boy!
It's always demeaning. Calling a full-grown man of any race "boy" is belittling them. Yes, there's a special racist association, but it's been used as much on white men. The female equivalent might be "little girl."
"What do you think you're doing, little girl?"
It might have the same effect as simply "girl" if said the right way, but "girl" has been more normalized and sexualized, so it's a little different.
Anyway, the terms are belittling, and therefore demeaning, regardless of race. The point of using them is to position yourself over that person, as a parent over a child; it's shorthand for saying they are beneath you.
Yeah, I thought this was common knowledge. Growing up mixed in the southeast (Tenn, Georgia,SC and NC areas), it was used daily to get my attention.
I think most non-Southerners' exposure to it is in media, where it's almost always racist in context. There's a surprising amount of subtly in Southern social interactions that I think it's missing from most of the US. Sure, Midwesterners are known for raising passive-aggressiveness to an art form, but you recognize it no matter where you're from.
The subtly in social interactions in the South are truly exceptional, hard to get a handle on, and unmatched anywhere else in the US - IMHO. Southerners have as many ways of being condescending as Eskimos have words for snow.
Is that phrase still acceptable, or is the Eskimo/snow comment now not PC? Is it still OK to use the term "Eskimo?" If the Eskimo thing is offensive, I sincerely apologize. An alternative would be "as North-westerners have words for rain," but I don't know if that's as widely understood an idiom.
I laughed when I read it, and I read the examples in the right accent, but I really don't see how it makes a difference.
I want none of that pineapple on my pizza, boy!
See, doesn't sound right. That might be racist.
This boy here is short I say short -- them jokes is going right over his head
it doesn't work, boy!
The workers should own the means of production, boy!
Esp when speaking to a boomer... Watch that meltdown hehe
"... that meltdown, boy."
You're doing it, I say, you're doing it wrong, boy.
Punish me harder, daddy!
Kyle uses "son" a lot. Makes me chuckle.