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kleinbl00 · 4010 days ago · link · · parent · post: The tortured rise of the All-American Bro | Pacific Standard

Eh. "Bros are a homophobic reaction to the rise of the acceptance of homosexuality." Except bros are the same as mooks are the same as chavs are the same as boors. They're simply talking about unconstrained hypermasculinity which has been a social "problem" since Heroditus.

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user-inactivated · 4010 days ago · link ·

You're right. I wouldn't call bros a reaction to homosexuality, but they certainly seem to define themselves by it on occasion. That's an important phenomenon too.

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