Dude, no. It is literally describing a man who gets fucked, usually for money. I made the same excuses for saying "that's gay"—that I wasn't referencing gayness, just things that were contrived and hokey, and guess what, those excuses were BS, because I didn't like to think of myself as a person who raised…

Funny thing is, I came upon this article after reading all the "fuckboys" Mr. Young dropped in his recent article on Slate. You do get that phrase is straight-up homophobic, right? Maybe you'll stop using that phrase when you're trying to stunt in front of all the bougies now?

Well, arguing against the straw man "feminist masterpiece" is always going to be a problem—a piece of art can only be a masterpiece on its own terms, not measured against a particular ideology. I think this is what rubs most people the wrong way, that we've had these ideological quandaries before (see Auden), but…