let's discuss 'BRO CULTURE (whatever the hell it is supposed to be)

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i'm sometimes really out of it in terms of new terms, fads, and stuff like that. but in the past year or so i've noticed the use of the term "'bro" to describe the behavior, clothing, etc. of certain young american guys. out here on the east coast and pace the ben domenech thread, i've usually interpreted the term to be roughly synonymous to "fratboys," preppy/yuppy whatevers who like abercrombie & fitch and dave matthews/maroon 5 shit. on the other hand, a quick search on urbandictionary.com seems to display a good bit of geographic diversity wr2 defining what a "bro" IS.

discuss!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 24 March 2006 22:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

i think you've probably thought about this and done more research than anyone else

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 24 March 2006 22:29 (7 years ago) Permalink

the white guy version of nigga, obv

― Werner Herzog Books On Tape (sexyDancer), Friday, 24 March 2006 22:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

the brown guy version!
http://www.brotown.co.nz/index.html

― cerebos, Friday, 24 March 2006 22:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

You know bro when you see it.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 24 March 2006 23:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

GIS for "bro job" is surprisingly work safe.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 24 March 2006 23:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/searchresults.php?board=86&mode=threads&q=&titlepart=bro&name=&email=&username=&dateafter=&datebefore=&catid=all

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Saturday, 25 March 2006 05:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

i was just watching a yakuza movie tonight where in the subtitles everyone was calling each other "bro." i assume the subtitling was done on the west coast, but it made "bro" seem pretty gangsta.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 25 March 2006 08:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

bros >> ilxors

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 25 March 2006 09:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

I prefer Manssiere Culture, personally.

― The Yellow Kid, Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

ts: brahs vs. bros

― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 27 March 2006 00:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

You had to go there, Don.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 March 2006 00:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

I'm not sure how much I hate the term "bro" but I'm totally motherfucking positive that I despise "brah."

― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 27 March 2006 01:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

Young hottie with bros, goat, and golden horse:
http://sandiego.craigslist.org/w4m/145507058.html

― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Monday, 27 March 2006 02:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

ha!

― Pablo (Pablo A), Monday, 27 March 2006 04:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

"bro-hoes"

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 27 March 2006 04:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

Sublimated homosexuality for circle jerkers.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

i escaped a great number of these BROs (aka broheims, brodogs) when i fled from the east county of san diego a few months ago. they're HUGE in the san diego/oceanside military complex and the riverside "inland empire." they make up a lot of el cajon, lakeside, and santee in san diego where i was from. they enjoy: off-roading (and putting huge tires on their trucks with all sorts of unnecessary KC and hella gear), drinking a lot of BUD LIGHT and JACK DANIELS ("any party without BUD LIGHT and JACK DANIELS is a FAGGOT PARTY," watching straight porn with their buddies, driving drunk, being generalized douches.

i don't know if the east coast variation of the BRO is actually "preppy" or not, but that's certainly not the case for southern california BROs. southern california (or "so-cal" to use the bro vernacular) bros gotta be into the imperial county desert (glamis, gordons well) and they gotta HATE SCHOOL and PUSSY FAGGOT EDUCATION shit like reading and watching movies that don't have TITS AND SPLOSIONS.

― ath (ath), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

so basically they're the jocks from revenge of the nerds I and II

― ath (ath), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

Hip-hop-rock-reggae funk and punk with that so cal twist… alterna-whatever you want to call it. just don’t call it mellow. We’re in your face drum and bass with a spaded ace. 2/6 strings mixin rhythm and leads with vocal melodies of a different breed. Positive energy that won’t be denied, born and raised in what has become knows as the armpit of California and I say it w/o shame… FRESNO! What?!? WHAT!!! We’re not gonna front, we packed our bags 5 south to SD in 97 and heavens gates just opened and said “here are some dickies, sandals, a skate, and a 24oz can-keep the bottles off the beach.” We ain’t goin’ back neither, we will DIE homeless in this city if we have to, as long as we have our feet in the sand, beer in our hands, and fans by our band….. we’re all smiles, MIX MOB styles.

― ath (ath), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, i think "brah" better connotes the vibe we're going for. Guidos & mooks are subsets of brahs, are they not?

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

http://www.viceland.com/viceDiary/photos/DOs%20and%20DONTs%20Dolls/image_DoGuy%20(clipped).jpg

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

drinking a lot of BUD LIGHT and JACK DANIELS ("any party without BUD LIGHT and JACK DANIELS is a FAGGOT PARTY,"

so wait, bud light is the opposite of faggot?

― send your men of science quick (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

i do have to admit i said some dudes were making "a bro-line for the bathroom" on friday night, and i was immediately ashamed.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

Your archetypal bro:

(surprise, surprise! he's from the Inland Empire!)

As you can see, NOT a preppy. He's got:

-Stupid tattoos
-Baggy shorts
-Clothing and accessories from some flavor-of-the-month lifestyle-apparel company (in this case, his own)
-Not pictured: crooked baseball caps, black knee-high socks, black bandana

Your archetypal bro-ho(es):

-No concept of dignity and/or feminism
-Wannabe low-budget pornstar style
-Lousy taste in guys (note crooked hat, Hurley shirt, soul-patch)

Your archetypal bro's ride:

-Overcompensation combined with conspicuous consumerism/obnoxiousness

I know more than a few bros, having gone to high school with them and working with a few in the past. They are very competitive, always trying to outdo each other wrt fashion and trucks. They are not really the fraternity type, as they either get construction jobs out of high school or go to community colleges (if their parents will pay for them to not work). They were nu-metal's target demo, but they also some enjoy some hip-hop and new-school punk like Pennywise, Bad Religion, and AFI (which is funny, because they are homophobic). You could tell when AFI hit big with them because they all started dying their hair and wearing black. Snowboarding, motocross, and off-roading in their trucks are the preferred activities apart from drinking and fighting. The girls are often tanning-bed orange and have fake breasts.

Also, they terms "bro" and "bro-ho" were originally perjoratives, but they've come to embrace the term.

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

I think around 98'-00' marks the point when I could no longer be sure whether a white dude calling me 'bro' was being a patronizing dickhead or actually just talked that way(not that they're mutually exclusive). I worked temp with some well-to-do 'bros', who were pretty distinct from preppies, mostly undergraduates from Orange County and Redondo/Manhattan Beach areas, slumming with summer jobs at the behest of their rich asshole dads from what I gathered. Good guys, mostly, but competitive as hell and wont to erupt into a collective bout of snotty 'boiler room'-derived meanness if women or politics came up. For instance: they were pretty well-traveled but would confine their tales to their epic hash scores and nude beach visits, etc.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 27 March 2006 21:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

pete smith, you are using the word "bro" a lot lately.

― carly (carly), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

White men calling black men "bro" for no particular reason

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

(Note: Thread found by searching for "jive turkey.")

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

shit, i'd forgotten all about that thread!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

I worked temp with some well-to-do 'bros', who were pretty distinct from preppies, mostly undergraduates from Orange County and Redondo/Manhattan Beach areas, slumming with summer jobs at the behest of their rich asshole dads from what I gathered. Good guys, mostly, but competitive as hell and wont to erupt into a collective bout of snotty 'boiler room'-derived meanness if women or politics came up. For instance: they were pretty well-traveled but would confine their tales to their epic hash scores and nude beach visits, etc.

these sound very much like preppies.

― send your men of science quick (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:14 (7 years ago) Permalink

My roommate, who is a former frat guy, uses the term "meaty" to describe scenes that are really "bro"-y. I've heard his friends use this term too - e.g. "that sports bar is a little TOO meaty, even for me."

Has anyone else heard this?

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

these sound very much like preppies

ok I don't have much experience with either, but I thought preppies wouldn't play down their education. or work temp!

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

5 years pass...

http://www.thanks-bro.com/

this is fucking stupid

― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Saturday, 24 March 2012 23:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

bros ripping off bros

― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Saturday, 24 March 2012 23:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/07/tech/web/brogrammers/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

At one of the world's biggest gatherings of Web culture, a 28-year-old executive talks about landing a tech job by sending a CEO "bikini shots" from a "nudie calendar" he created.

On campus at Stanford University, a hot startup attracts recruits with a poster asking if they want to 'bro down and crush some code.'"

And the world's largest Internet registration company entices Web entrepreneurs with a Super Bowl ad in which two female celebrities paint its logo onto the body of an apparently naked model.

Forget what you think you know about the benignly geeky computer programmer who lives for the thrill of finding a single misplaced semicolon in thousands of lines of code.

And welcome to the world of the "brogrammer."

― omar little, Monday, 7 May 2012 14:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

When IT started to pay well (for some people)... this happened. Geeks revenge.

― mmmm, Monday, 7 May 2012 14:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

Because "geeks" traditionally had the most enlightened views about women

― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 7 May 2012 15:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

Classic "geek culture" staple Revenge of the Nerds climaxing with hilarious rape scene

― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 7 May 2012 15:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

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