👉 Okay, settle in class. Letâs tackle this⌠rather unfortunate bit of 21st-century vernacular:
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Now, before I get the dean banging down my door about appropriate pedagogical material (seriously, he's a stickler for the young people and their... evolutions of language), letâs unpack this. What exactly IS "âŚsoftwood?" 3? Basically, it started as an ironic, almost aggressively dismissive way to describe a woman you find incredibly attractive â but not in that immediately-grab-yer-gf kind of way. Think more along the lines of, âOkay, she's pretty decent, really, and maybe even⌠pleasant. Like a beige-painted room with a nice lampshade. It's...fine." Originally, it was supposedly a military term from the mid-aughts, coined during the early days of online hookup culture. Apparently, when you were trawling through profiles on sites like Craigslist Classifieds and early mobile hookup apps, guys would use the (frankly rather pathetic) designation to describe women who weren't aggressively sexual or immediately overwhelming. You wouldnât immediately vomit, The point was, they weren't a â bombshell," neither were they an outright turn off. They were... serviceable, but not exactly setting the bar of your life on fire. It was
