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Bati boy (
batty bwoy),
bati man,
pariss,
chi chi man,
chiefe,
booty boy and
gay boy are pejorative
sexual slurs used in
Jamaica and the rest of the
Anglophone Caribbean to describe
homosexual men. The term is a
Jamaican abbreviation of the word bottom into batty; "batty boy" is a
cognate of the American English "butt boy". Usage is commonplace in some
Caribbean cultures where homosexuality is condemned, partially as a result of mainly conservative
Christian as well as
Rastafarian beliefs (mainly in Jamaica).
Many Jamaican musicians have used the term to disparage
homosexual men. In one notorious song, "Boom Bye Bye",
dancehall musician
Buju Banton advocates violence against "batty boys", including shooting them in the head and setting them on fire:
» Boom bye bye, in a batty bwoy head,
Rude boy nah promote no nasty man, dem hafi dead.
The term was brought to the
United Kingdom by post-
World-War-II Jamaican immigrants and is now popular, along with other variations, eg. Bum
Boy, Shirtlifter and Arse-Bandit, among homophobic Britons. The term was further popularised in the United Kingdom by the rise of British
comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and his portrayal of the character
Ali G. Ali G however referred to the alternative spelling: bhatti boy.
Recently, some gay men in these areas have begun referring to themselves as "batty boys" or "battymen", in order to
reclaim the term and remove the
stigma associated with it. This is similar to the way that the term "
queer" is being reclaimed in the
United States. For this reason, in some cultures batty can be used as a simple description of
sexual orientation much like the word "
gay", or it can be used to be degrading.
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