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Okay,
but what is a
Lemme get
my hands up in softies. They go out of sad boi?
those curls. their way to be nice
Not to
to people, like when
overcomplicate
Timothée brought the
things, but there’s
fans who were waiting
a subset of soft
outside the NYC bois called sad
premiere of The King bois. They are soft
his favorite bagels. but come with
That shit is thoughtful! heavy baggage.
These men repre-
sent a new kind
of masculinity that
doesn’t include a
bod you’re dying to
see in one of those Robert
soaked-T-shirt-style Look, I just know
Pattinson
i n Hollywood, that (as are we—abs and clearly HATES IT.
photo shoots. They’re
totally okay with
there’s a dark, twisty,
gorgeous monster
fade, dimples are
inside this man. You
forever). In fact, it
can see it when he
lets them get you in a
does an interview
there are two
way that performative
leading-guy
archetypes
prevents. Like, they
rn: the like him tend to hang masculinity usually
aren’t going to freak
quarterbacks and Insta caption in 30 around because they out when they see a
the soft bois. (Before seconds or less. are a joy to spend tampon, you know?
you say something They’ve read all the (virtual) time with. And the more you Bradley
like, “That’s way too essential Jonathans: We can never have fangirl over the soft Cooper
simple. There are Franzen, Safran Foer, enough because their bois on your screens, With all that drama
definitely more and Lethem. They’ll appeal is based on the more the men in between Lady Gaga
kinds,” pls read all meet you at a bar their talents, quirky your actual life will and Irina Shayk last
the way through this wearing a logo-less personalities, and (hopefully) get the hint year, he definitely
airtight case.) hoodie that costs je ne sais quoi (that’s and start to replicate has plenty of pain—
The quarterbacks at least $1,500. French for, like, their soft ways. That’ll which I would
are the famous men Specimens include something magical probably make them happily listen to him
you could run up to Lucas Hedges, the about them that only better humans, if only ramble about.
full speed, do that brothers Sprouse, makes sense in French, for the fact that their
Notebook-style Jharrel Jerome, and which, btw, soft bois Insta captions will be
leg-wrap-jump thing, Timothée Chalamet— speak fluently). infinitely smarter.
and have absolutely actors I’d describe as Maybe the best So long live the
no fear of falling. “beautiful” rather thing about soft bois soft boi, and may he
We’re talking the than “hot.” is that they’re actual forever keep making Zayn
brothers Hemsworth, These guys have great, weird, orig- Zayn is too busy
Jason Derulo, Charles *staying power*. Soft bois = the inal, creative stuff, writing delicate
Melton. Take Paul Rudd. He from movies to lyrics about Gigi
Soft bois probably first captured our best cuddlers, music to photog- Hadid to be able to
can’t hold you up (and hearts in Clueless (in raphy Instagram do anything else
they prefer intense, 1995!) and is still probably. accounts. (like tour), and that
GET T Y IM AGES (4). hugs anyway). They everyone. His IMDb Timmy, if you’re · B O I S B O I S B O I S ·
puts him firmly in
charming TF out of
full-body, squeezy
Oh, and
sad-boi land.
can whip up a poetic
page is as long as
reading this, DM me.
a CVS receipt. Men

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