How to Spot a Softboi Before He Ruins Your Life
Identifying the fuckboi’s “feminist” cousin
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3 min readOct 3, 2019
In an age when toxic masculinity has been more typically connected with blatant, aggressive violations, the softboi (or softboy) often flies under the radar. He has a non-threatening aesthetic — a pastel-toned alpaca grandfather sweater, a weathered copy of The Second Sex in his back pocket — which appears to…
