Outside of Tumblr, I’ve honestly only ever heard the phrase “boys will be boys“ to mean “boys will be lovable goofballs who do dumb shit to entertain themselves”, not “boys will be rapists”.
And additionally when men are acting like boys.
I’ve mostly heard this phrase after “Hey mom watch this!”
Exactly. “Boys will be boys” has nothing to do with sexual assault and everything to do with:
Jesus, I hope the guy on the last gif is okay
He stands up fine and I doubt his friends would upload it if he died, so probably just sore as fuck
I love the dudes on the merry-go-round.
That’s basically what it means.
Us dudes have terrible risk-management instincts (likely due to evolution deciding cavemen needed to teeter that line between bravery and stupidity to hunt the kind of animals that lived back and feed their families)
So we tend to be the ones doing stupid and potentially dangerous shit that seemed cool at the time to amuse outselves
I’ve never heard “boys will be boys” being used in context of guys being creepy or rapists. I’ve always heard the term used when guys do something really stupid, or when they do something dumb but it looks kind of cool.
Seriously though, if anyone unironically uses “boys will be boys” to justify creepy behavior, they’re awful people and need their asses kicked.
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