Not a bro Dad

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Anonymous wrote:PP here. I knew a lot of people on the Water Polo team in high school in SoCal. Most of them became Bro Dads.

Yes!!!! Water polo is so huge in SoCal. Bro dads are also on the varsity volleyball team. Both sports are relatively unappreciated on the East Coast. For many SoCal Bro Dads, their water polo or volleyball teams are waaaaaay more important than their football team.

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Pics of Cal bro dads?

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Anonymous wrote:Utah Bro Dads are often married to mommy bloggers who spend a lot of time on Pinterest & seem to think they invented motherhood.

these same wives sell a lot of lularoe too.

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Anonymous wrote:PP here. I knew a lot of people on the Water Polo team in high school in SoCal. Most of them became Bro Dads.

Yes!!!! Water polo is so huge in SoCal. Bro dads are also on the varsity volleyball team. Both sports are relatively unappreciated on the East Coast. For many SoCal Bro Dads, their water polo or volleyball teams are waaaaaay more important than their football team.

Water polo (or swim, but there was huge overlap between the two groups since most water polo players were good enough to make varsity swim), volleyball, and baseball.

Wives did dance team.

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Anonymous wrote:Grew up in a SoCal beachside city and ...so many Bro Dads and Cool Moms.

They turned a blind eye to all the underage drinking and parties that happened at their houses on weekends while they (the parents) were up at their cabins in Big Bear.

Yep, a true test of a Bro Dad in Southern Calif is: does he have a cabin in Big Bear?
Does he have a tattoo?
Does he have a pick-up?
Does he have a goatee or a beard?
Is he hot? (You can only be a Bro Dad if you're good looking)
Is his wife hot?
Did he go to one of the Cal States?
Does he live in the same town he grew up in, or nearby?
For vacation does he take his family to Maui?
Does he coach his kids's Little League or Softball team?

Wow, must be pretty lucrative to be in lifestyle game since they don't seem very ambitious but live pretty lavish

A lot of them have reasonably well-pff parents, work for their dads or took over their dads' business, and use their parents' cabins in Big Bear. I'm the SoCal beach town poster. My neighbors are an older couple with a cabin in Big Bear their bro dad kids and grandkids use. They funded their grandkids' college educations at Cal State schools. They fund a lot of other stuff including Hawaii and Mexico vacations.

Not sure Big Bear is bro-ish, but whatever.

Not for younger bros, but DEFINITELY for the Bro Dads.

Absolutely. Bro Dads love Big Bear, and Mammoth!

New Year's in Big Bear or Mammoth with other Bro Dad families!

Yep, Bro Dads take vacations with other Bro Dads and don't socialize with guys who aren't BD's

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I wanna be a bro dad. It sounds like fun

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So Cal bro dads also take organized trips to Lake Tahoe at least once a year.

Honestly, their kids are really well adjusted and have a really healthy appetite for adventure and the outdoors. Society could do with more of these Bro Dad/Mom families.

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Anonymous wrote:So Cal bro dads also take organized trips to Lake Tahoe at least once a year.

Honestly, their kids are really well adjusted and have a really healthy appetite for adventure and the outdoors. Society could do with more of these Bro Dad/Mom families.

I think the drawback is bro dads can be really homophobic and racist.

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I grew up in Orange County, CA and this thread is 100% spot on. Dads were far less of "bro dads" back in the 80s and 90s when I was a kid but it seems like they somehow raised a generation of boys to create this (accurate) stereotype. Many of the guys I went to HS with became these "bro dads" - they all drive huge trucks, never have worn a tie in their lives, and vacations center around the beach, Lake Havasu, and may dirtbiking in the desert.

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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbxAGb_b7k4

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Anonymous wrote:I'm from Southern California (Orange County area) and there's definitely a type of Bro Dad here. Basically, they dress like high school surfer boys but they are in their late 30s and have two kids.

Typical SoCal Bro Dad:
-Drives a lifted 4x4 pick-up truck with a Monster Energy sticker on the back window, blasting Sublime or System of a Down
-Always sporting a Hurley baseball cap with a flat rim
-A plaid Billabong button up shirt and dark colored pants are what he wears to "dress up" for holiday cards
-Vans sneakers
-Owns a few pairs of Dickies shorts
-"Vacations" consist of going to Glamis for off-roading, camping at Pismo Beach, or heading to Big Bear to snowboard on 6 inches of man-made snow in the freestyle park
-Constantly bitches about "how crowded SoCal has become" and un-ironically throws out a bit of casual racism by blaming "the Mexicans"

I've yet to find similar Bro Dads anywhere else in the U.S. It's a bizarre combination of privilege, Peter Pan syndrome, being culturally stuck in the late 1990s.

From someone stuck in the Obama era ...

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Anonymous wrote:[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbxAGb_b7k4

Those dudes are annoying beyond belief! And don't even get me started on the shades. Say what you will about DC nerds in ill-fitting slacks but I'd take a DC nerd over a bro dad any second.

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Do bro dads give brojobs to each other?

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I'll take a stab at DC-area Bro Dads:

- Golfs. Like, actually likes it, not just for networking
- Fit, but not "too" fit ("dad bod")
- Polo shirts and ballcaps on the weekend
- Drinks beer
- May or may not smoke weed, but never around the kids
- Listens to Dave Mathews Bland- sorry, I mean "Band"
- Played guitar in college to get chicks, may play in a hobby band with his bro dad pals
- College educated
- Cell phone clipped to his belt (which is often one of those woven leather jobs)
- General air of benign douchebaggery

Did I miss anything?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll take a stab at DC-area Bro Dads:

- Golfs. Like, actually likes it, not just for networking
- Fit, but not "too" fit ("dad bod")
- Polo shirts and ballcaps on the weekend
- Drinks beer
- May or may not smoke weed, but never around the kids
- Listens to Dave Mathews Bland- sorry, I mean "Band"
- Played guitar in college to get chicks, may play in a hobby band with his bro dad pals
- College educated
- Cell phone clipped to his belt (which is often one of those woven leather jobs)
- General air of benign douchebaggery

Did I miss anything?

Played lacrosse in HS, always claims he would have been able to play D1 “if it wasn’t for my [xxxxx] injury.”
Yoga-fit wife who settled for him and his earning prospects