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Shutterstock Some new words have been popping up on my radar lately. Our generation is always updating words or creating new ones. Sometimes they even become officially recognized words by the dictionary! Merriam-Webster defines it as:

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The sketch is a classic , but there’s an odd imbalance between the insults each comedian uses. Aykroyd is able to attack Curtin’s sexual history, intellect and moral code, while Curtin’s response only cuts so deep as to imply that he’s unpleasant. It’s only a joke, but one that shows how our language makes it much easier to insult women, often based on their sexuality. Luckily, the Internet is here to plug that gender gap, and there’s another biting term for men picking up speed: But consensus on a singular definition is a work in progress.

In its original context, the word was used to insult a man for lack of traditional masculinity. On Urban Dictionary — the respected authority on such matters — the first definition of a fuckboy, from December , is “a person who is a weak ass pussy. But in the second entry, written nearly ten years later, fuckboys take on a different set of traits, like “relies on his mom but doesn’t respect women” and “can’t find the clitoris. Timothy over here asking’ for nudes when all u did was say hello so he’s a fuckboy.

Here the term changes meaning, dismissing the subject’s ego and going so far as to call out his inappropriate sexual advances. Insults like that are few and far between. Sure, we can use “man whore” or a “male slut,” but the necessity of those modifiers drives home the fact that whores and sluts are, inherently, women. Plus, terms like “man whore” attack a man based on his presumed number of sexual partners — “fuckboy” speaks much more to his character.

The more recent Urban Dictionary entry has 4, fewer upvotes than the “weak ass” definition above it — though the first had a decade to accrue those votes of approval — but, after getting reposted to Tumblr, got over , likes and reblogs.