The scrotum is a loose sac of skin behind the penis which contains the testicles. The foreskin of some boys' penises is removed in a process known as circumcision. It is the organ used by boys to expel urine. The penis is a cylindrical organ filled with spongy tissue. The external organs include the penis, the scrotum, and the testicles (or testes). The male reproductive system includes both external and internal organs. A sperm cell carrying a Y chromosome results in an XY combination, and a boy will develop. If this sperm cell contains an X chromosome, it will coincide with the X chromosome of the ovum and a girl will develop. Human sex is determined at fertilization when the genetic sex of the zygote has been initialized by a sperm cell containing either an X or Y chromosome. and Conor McGregor, the latter told the former to "dance for me, boy." The remarks led several boxers – including Mayweather and Andre Ward – as well as multiple commentators to accuse McGregor of racism. ĭuring an event promoting the 2017 boxing bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. Multiple politicians – including New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Kentucky Congressman Geoff Davis – have been criticized publicly for referring to a black man as "boy". I have told all the boys that if they wished to stay here and learn, those that had wives must bring them. There is one way by which we judge many of our present boys to be quite different from some of those who were here long ago: those that are married have their wives here with them, and build their own houses, and all are busy making their gardens.
Thomas Branch, an early African-American Seventh-day Adventist missionary to Nyassaland ( Malawi) referred to the native students as "boys":
Historically, in the United States and South Africa, "boy" was not only a "neutral" term for domestics but also a disparaging term towards black men the term implied a subservient status. Tanzanian boy transporting fodder Specific uses Race Furthermore, the word may be related to Bōia, an Anglo-Saxon personal name. The root is also found in Norwegian dialectal boa ("brother"), and, through a reduplicated variant * bō-bō-, in Old Norse bófi, Dutch boef "(criminal) knave, rogue", German Bube ("knave, rogue, boy"). Although the exact etymology is obscure, the English and Frisian forms probably derive from an earlier Anglo-Frisian * bō-ja ("little brother"), a diminutive of the Germanic root * bō- ("brother, male relation"), from Proto-Indo-European * bhā-, * bhāt- ("father, brother"). The word "boy" comes from Middle English boi, boye ("boy, servant"), related to other Germanic words for boy, namely East Frisian boi ("boy, young man") and West Frisian boai ("boy"). According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a boy is "a male child from birth to adulthood".