[ SECRET POST #3949 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3949 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What’s the difference between “bros” and “caring male friendships?” Because I don’t have a hard time finding male friendships in popular media where the two guys wax on about how important they are to each other and are willing to die for each other.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I'm not sure how to describe the difference, only that it's there and I can tell. Most "bro" type of friendships portrayed in media have a very "you're my bro but we do manly friendships, also we do this for one moment and then we go back to never mentioning feelings again, now back to your regularly scheduled macho inexpressiveness" vibe about them. Usually with a large dose of "no homo"

I don't even mind bro friendships. At least the men get to express emotion and friendship and care that way. But it's almost always portrayed as the emotions being real but expressing them is a moment of weakness and something to be avoided except at the climaxes of dramas when its do or die because you have to be callous to each other the rest of the time or else it's ~weird~, instead of being regular caring friendships

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, okay. I get what you’re saying. Sorry for snapping at you. And yeah, the “no homo” thing is always there with a lot of deep male friendships in media which is annoying.

[(Anonymous)]

It's fine, I understand where you're coming from too. The scenes of men being all "but bro, you're my best bro!" or deciding to choose the friend over the love interest are really common. We all love the idea of deep best-friendships and I'm no exception, lol.

I just wish most of them didn't have to be practically dragged out of every character at metaphorical or literal gunpoint with the implication that normal men don't normally do or say any of that

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SA

I thought of one! Samwise and Frodo were a good example of a serious caring friendship. I wish these were less rare.