Following is a story that is not actually my own...but it's almost like I get to confront all the sexist commenters on YouTube at once!
Basically, I became aware of this forum called the Bro Board after an NYE party, where my friend's friend gave her number to a random guy she had no intention of seeing again. The following day, a crude photo of his penis placed inside a hollowed out cucumber showed up on her cell. This obviously triggered a series of forwards, and a bit of internet trolling to figure out who this guy was.
Lo and behold, him and his comrades from the party had been blogging about their sexploitations on a publicly viewed but privately moderated forum entitled "the Bro Board." There was even an emblematic piece about the NYE party, which starts as follows:
"We roll up to <<>>’s place, he is throwing a party full of bros and
ugly chicks (as usual). As I walk in I see Dan sitting next to this
girl who I know does not like me. I don’t know why but she has always
been a total bitch and is always there because she is the friend of
M***, <<>>’s girlfriend. At that point she apparently tells Dan that
she really hates me, so he spends the rest of the night trying to get
her phone number to “spite fuck” her. He gets it."
The rest of the story can be viewed here, though it's more of the same and is kind of inane. Now, I get that there are forums like this all over the place, and this is probably on par with what you could read in most youtube video comments, but this group is declaring their forum a reclamation of the word "Bro." They constantly declare that the whole thing is a hilarious joke, and their over-the-top antics are only truly understood by those high-minded enough to know who they really are. Excluding women from the forum and either calling them drunk sluts or ugly bitches is part of their gimmick. Well, if who they really are would still text a picture of their dick in a vegetable to a stranger, it all seems pretty in step with their character.
3 comments:
that is fucking crazy. interesting to note: bros have little respect for produce or ladies or my eyes, but much respect for the published rules of icing.
"We later do some research and discover that you can only counter-Ice someone, not counter-counter-Ice. In this case Sam would have had to drink both Ices."
When I first read that, I assumed the Ice in hand was a Natty Ice, but was surprised to discover it was a Smirnoff Ice (a notch under a breezer, if we're gonna gender drinks here).
yeah it's a thing, in that the nytimes wrote a trend piece about it in july or something. MORE INFO:
http://www.theawl.com/2010/06/bros-icing-bros-and-the-fate-of-humanity-a-look-back
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