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The Toxic Masculinity and Unchecked Patriarchal Privilege of Violence Anthem “Sailing” by Christopher Cross

surely it isn't controversial that regardless of whatever it was in 2018, it has now been adopted by redditors?

s/2018/the '80s

can i, like, take it back

I thought "Africa" had been adopted by, like, high school dances and Kristen Bell. Is it seriously part of some kind of tough guy culture?

they'll have "such a long way to go" before they can take "ride like the wind" away from me

(such a long way to goooo)

Like, the "Weezer Cover Africa" movement was started by a 14 year old girl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNeKKIOZkGQ

How are weezer bros?

Every dude's a bro, it seems.

How are weezer bros?

― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, December 12, 2018 12:26 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://gloriousnoise.com/2007/weezer_riviers_cuomo_on_asian

Yeah i know how pinkerton especially is problematic but to be a bro i thought you needed to wear ray bans on a lanyard and know how to shotgun a beer.

there are many kinds of bro in the world

https://jezebel.com/the-united-states-of-bros-a-map-and-field-gide-1550563737

But your parents need to have a lake house

nah bro

Irish bros: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB7-5_FiZeU

The Virgin Trϵϵship vs. the Chad katherine

lol

downvote

I do wonder sometimes what this place would look like if we had an up/downvote system.

Irish bros

post lads itt when u want to post lads in another thread

I do wonder sometimes what this place would look like if we had an up/downvote system.

― pomenitul

Awful

could you not

Downvotes would be bad (I think most would agree); but the nice thing about upvotes is you can applaud a good/funny post without needing to write a post saying "LOL", etc. Sometimes hilarious posts (by others, never me, lol) will just sit there, without any indication of whether they are being appreciated or not.

Lol

This won't hurt a bit, it's just a thought experiment, nothing to worry about, nothing at all…

How are weezer bros?

dude, really? rich, white, sexist, "bitter nerd" rock guy with shitty ideas checks a lot of bro boxes in my book. I mean there's this handy interview, which is gross as fuck: https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/Interview_between_Rivers_Cuomo_and_Joe_Matt

So bro=sexist?

Rivers: There was this one time in Japan that was really emotional for me because this is when I was first starting to figure all this stuff out about being really aggressive. I'd been in Japan for a week and every night there were ten or fifteen girls in my room and nothing happened because I wasn't confident enough to say "Let's have sex or get out of the room." So finally, at the end of my stay there I said, "Whoever wants to stay in the room has to take their clothes off and get on the bed."and most of them left but four of them stayed. It was a very difficult step for me to take but I hadto take it. It was the truth about what I wanted.

cool story bro

well I did not know this! interesting

Rivers Cuomo was born in a Manhattan hospital to parents of Italian and German-English descent.[2] He was raised on Yogaville, an ashram in Pomfret, Connecticut run by the master yogi Satchidananda Saraswati. Cuomo's mother Beverly named him Rivers because he was born between the East and Hudson rivers in Manhattan. His father, Frank Cuomo, is a musician who played drums on the 1971 album Odyssey of Iska by jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter.[3][4] He has a brother, Leaves.[5]

Cuomo attended a private school on the ashram.[5] His family moved to nearby Storrs, Connecticut when the ashram relocated to a plot along the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia.[6] Cuomo attended E.O. Smith High School, and was involved in musical activities including the school choir and a school production of Grease.[7][8][9] He also changed his name to Peter Kitts (Kitts being his stepfather's surname);[10] after graduating, Cuomo reverted to his original name.[11]

He has a brother, Leaves.

*gulp*

I went to G.E. Smith high school, myself

this definitely makes the Bro-to connection pretty explicitly (and imo hilariously, though ymmv):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=558ryBoSKPg

I like how that Jezebel piece Katherine posted makes sort of a "neutral" case for bro-ness -- "basic bro," if you will:

What is a bro? The most practical, workable definition: An adult male whose social life revolves around collegiate homosocial bonding and who also presents himself in a way that assimilates to the prevailing aesthetic of men with similar socialization patterns. [...] a bro is a young, usually unmarried, often immature guy who just does what everyone else his age seems to be doing. He's not necessarily a bad guy, he's not necessarily worthy of derision (some of my best friends are bros!). He's just figuring life out and trying to enjoy himself in the process (unfortunately, this pursuit of enjoyment combined with a lack of self awareness, can, in the case of some bros, result in asshole behavior), and he's not secure or confident enough to do it on his own.

can confirm Weezer "Africa" cover is a wedding / bar mitzvah staple now. so points for its status as a 'basic' anthem

What kind of wedding DJ would pick the Weezer version when the Toto version is right there?

A Bro Wedding DJ.

very 2018 that a song that peaked outside of the top 40 is regarded as a generation-defining massive hit worthy of many think pieces

Condescension toward bros as a class is absurd. I’m trading in my outdated late-00’s hipster costume for some sperrys in solidarity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT3NVv7IZ8Q

the Nautica wearer, the Karl Kani bear
Mr. Get Jig the fly bear
Notorious, ready to die bear

won't someone please think of the bros

I’m doing it. Without irony. While comfy in nautica.

https://i.ibb.co/dMskzqk/FB-IMG-1544656107811.jpg

Brogrammer was robbed

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-Jay-37MaNi8%2FUQdPTD5x9gI%2FAAAAAAAAFtw%2FyLF3qRYJ-Ww%2Fs640%2Fbrobee.jpg&f=1

LOL IRL

Rivers: There was this one time in Japan that was really emotional for me because this is when I was first starting to figure all this stuff out about being really aggressive. I'd been in Japan for a week and every night there were ten or fifteen girls in my room and nothing happened because I wasn't confident enough to say "Let's have sex or get out of the room." So finally, at the end of my stay there I said, "Whoever wants to stay in the room has to take their clothes off and get on the bed."and most of them left but four of them stayed. It was a very difficult step for me to take but I hadto take it. It was the truth about what I wanted.

cool story bro

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, December 12, 2018 11:19 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

um this is h0t as fuck lol. almost as good as some of mingus's stories