Soyboy sounds like an endearing name for a gay vegan twink. So, in that sense I really like it, and hope that it spreads. If nothing else, the alliterative melody of "soy-boy" seems bouncy, positive, and cheerful.
Definitely better than "cuck", which was always so oddly revealing about the sexual anxiety of those who used it.
Here's a dumb red-wine thought!
Was "cuck" an attempt to create a straight version of faggot? Did it have any heft to it when used? Was/is it effective in making other people feel bad about themselves?
I'm gay, and for all the problems gay porn has it seems to be dwarfed by the harshness of contemporary heterosexual porn. Straight porn, as pop-ups, is basically as close I come to encounter what is happening in the (sexual) straight world these days, and whatever slurs that become popular are always going to be filtered - for me - through, well, I guess, a filter that has already been around the block :)
So, is cuck or soyboy or any of these attempts coming from the "alt-right" actually successful as words/phrases meant to make people feel less than?
Like... for me, soy-boy is such warm, compassionate/friendly-teasing term. Had I ever had a vegan boyfriend I would probably have called him that (and much, much, much - much - worse! (in jest)).
It's just so odd for me - and probably a lot of LGBTQ+ - people to see this next generation of slurs, that generally seem to be about attacking in-groups, ie, heterosexuals attacking other heterosexuals for not being heterosexual enough.
These are dynamics that a lot of LGBTQ+ people are pretty used to by now (there's a pretty rich tapestry of perceived status, power, etc within the LGBTQ+ world that an enormous amount of straight people are clueless about, which is understandable).
In some - a very small way - it's almost heartwarming to see that the evolution of speech within "alt-right" seems to follow the same dynamics of any group that is on the threshold of being irrelevant.
I.e, you stop attacking out-groups, and instead implement an increasingly harsher set of purity tests for the in-group. The prognosis for that kind of behavior is pretty bleak for the in-group, even if it's temporarily nice for out-groups to not be the immediate focus of harassment.
Whenever I see these things, I feel increasingly sorry for straight guys. Not in the particular sense, but in the way that you've had all these thousands of years of violence towards "the other", and there is still no sense of deep, secure, warm heterosexual identity in which to ground yourself with.
EDIT: Reservations for weird phrasing and unclear statements; had wine, and will go to bed shortly. Will defend my mouth-spewing tomorrow. Everything I say should be taken as argued in good-faith. Cheers, love.