Citations:soft boy

English citations of soft boy

• 1968, Prakash Tandon, Punjabi Century, 1857-1947, page 52:

  As small boys they sometimes played with girls, mostly hopping and running, but soon they became self-conscious and stopped mixing, and if a soft boy wanted to continue to play , the girls would peck him away with their sharp tongues and with slaps.

• 2008, Martin Ashley, Teaching Singing to Boys and Teenagers, page 37:

  Mac an Ghaill (2002) raises the intriguing possibility that the majority of boys are 'soft boys', and that masculinity scholars have yet to develop the vocabulary and means of analysis to tackle this.

• 2011, Claude Fredericks, The Journal of Claude Fredericks; Volume Three, page 456:

  I think some of the soft boys at Harvard, judging at least from what they write and say, have had few inner or outer ones. No wonder the disgust of the waitress and the cracks I heard Schwartz make to his class one day.

• 2013, Elisabetta Girelli, Montgomery Clift, Queer Star, page 33:

  Steven Cohan highlights the suggestive qualities of Red River's dominant narrative, the opposition between the radically different masculinities Clift and Wayne represent: "the highly charged context between the soft boy and the hard man in Red River dramatizes such a shift in the mainstream culture's demands upon masculinity".

• 2015, Michael A. Messner, Max A. Greenberg, Tal Peretz, Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence against Women:

  Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in Urbana, Illinois, Craig Norberg-Bohm was “always a soft boy, always more sensitive. I was afraid of the guys who were harder."