Comment by dewitt
11 years ago
I think a lot of people are familiar with the term. It is not a compliment.
See http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bro.
"Obnoxious partying males who are often seen at college parties."
"An alpha male idiot. This is the derogatory sense of the word (common usage in the western US): white, 16-25 years old, inarticulate, belligerent, talks about nothing but chicks and beer"
"A usually white young male, found commonly in places like san bernardino county in california, as well as orange county."
"Deeply racist, yet vulture-ize black culture with attempts to be "down", while living as far from any ghetto as humanly possible."
It goes on like that for 36 pages.
Anything to do with gender on urban dictionary has been vote brigaded by feminist blogs for years now.
See: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=man
Here's the number one entry:
Things With Penises who tell women anything just to get intercorse
"timmy is like most men he tells tina he loves her so he can get ass then he never speaks to her again."
The number two entry is about how real men love feminism and have big dicks, seemingly as a result. Apparently men who don't love feminism aren't men at all and have small dicks.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=feminist
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=misandry
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=masculinity
The site hasn't been 'urban' for a while.
This doesn't mean dewitt point is invalid. From the point of view of someone outside of USofA bro is portrayed in the movies and the internet exactly as dewitt and urban dictionary says.
A loud and obnoxious fraternity guy with partying, acting stupid and engaging in despicable behavior as their life style.
Yeah, it can mean all that, or it can just mean "friend"...
But if we don't actively try to get offended at every little thing around us, how are we going to spend all our time?
I don't get it. If someone made a command called "bi###", people would feel that it was hostile towards women - and understandably so. But then someone creates a command with a name that - by your account - is hostile towards a certain kind of male archetype, that name is... hostile towards women?