Help?

[kerravonsen]

Please, someone explain to me what "bromance" means.

This entry was originally posted at http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org/972262.html. (Comments

Comments

[etakyma]

Bromance. It is an intense, platonic (read non-sexual) relationship between two unrelated men. Women just have friendships; men get a "bromance."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromance

[jedibuttercup]

Well, women still have romantic friendships, they just don't have a cutesy smushname for them. *shrug*

[dreamflower02]

No, they use netspeak: BFFs.

[jedibuttercup]

BFF doesn't necessarily imply the romantic aspects, though. I've had plenty of BFFs. But only one of them would I have ever gladly yet non-sexually shared a bed with. YMMV.

[madeleone]

*Snerk* My 31 year old son was just talking to me about 'bromance' in sitcoms the other day, like Howard and Raj in The Big Bang Theory, or Chandler and Joey in Friends. Funny that the term should now show up on my flist! LOL!

[dreamflower02]

Yep. It's what used to be called "being buddies". For some reason nowadays everyone wants to coin new words by mushing two words together. I find the term both mildly annoying and mildly amusing at the same time.

[feliciakw]

It seems the first time I saw the term, it was describing the friendship between Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. (Incidentally, I've also seen the break-up of such a friendship called a "dudevorce.") So as the wiki article notes, it doesn't just apply to fictitious characters. (Nor was it apparently coined by the entertainment/celebrity media. That I did not know

[jaxomsride]

It really seems to have cropped up when Brokeback Mountain came out. Whether it was around before then, I don't know but it certainly hit the media awareness then. When stars were challenged in interviews with having a close relationship with their fellow co-stars the phrase cropped up then.