(Judging from our replies, bro-ishness seems to preclude any uncomplicated ease with sexual and gender fluidity, it seems.)īelow, we explain those dimensions in greater detail. These pillars, which may overlap, are stonerish-ness, dude-liness, preppiness, and jockishness. We noticed a few themes from the Twitter suggestions, and after a few days, we settled on four major dimensions of bro. But we ultimately concluded that at the chewy nougat-y core of bro-dom lay the eminently quotable Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte. A few of the same names kept popping up: Matthew McConaughey, Joe Rogan, John Mayer, Dane Cook, the conveniently and appropriately named Brody Jenner. We got the farthest in our articulation of bro-dom by asking people to send us examples of famous folks who fit the bill. We quickly realized that folks were employing different working definitions of bro-ness. Uh, weren't bros fratty white guys? Could dudes of color be bros independently of white bros? Or are they just like That Brown Friend in all those beer commercials - bro-y due to his social proximity to white bros?
#Mapped out money code
After a Code Switcher described a person of color as being a bro, some of us wondered whether the description even made sense. The other day, the Code Switch team fell into a winding conversation about bros, as we're wont to do regarding all sorts of seemingly trivial topics. Baseball cap with the frayed brim (possibly backward), sky-blue oxford shirt or sports team shirt, cargo shorts, maybe some mandals or boat shoes.
(As the indispensable Know Your Meme points out in a useful short history, people have been abbreviating "brother" this way for centuries, although its iteration as a synonym for "friend" - or more accurately, "friend-dude" - is much more recent.) Over the past decade or so, though, "bro" has evolved into a shorthand for a specific kind of fratty masculinity. The usage of "bro" as a term of endearment isn't new, obviously. (They've been designated "bros" mostly because, well, they say "bro" a whole lot.) This is the chant of the bro, an equally parodied and celebrated genus of young men. A beautiful bro-ment: Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps give each other the traditional arm-wrestle bro-shake at the U.S.
0 kommentar(er)
