Not a bro Dad

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If a guy is wearing sunglasses with orange or blue reflective lenses there is a 90% chance he’s a bro

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Anonymous wrote:IMO non-bro dads are usually smarter.

My DH hates sports except World Cup. He does CrossFit and is in great shape. He dislikes interacting with bro dads because they’re interested in all the things he hates. My teenage son is following in his footsteps.

LOL at you thinking your husband is smarter than other men because he likes soccer and does CrossFit....

No the first was my opinion. Then a paragraph break describing my DH and his frustration trying to find intellectuals among the bro dads.

Your DH is not a bro, but genuinely cool guys think he's lame, believe me.

A Bro is quite harmless but insufferably dull. Their world view is limited and they lack wit. They say things like "It's 5 o'clock somewhere!" and laugh a little too hard every time they say it like they just made it up. It's hard to guess their age because of how they dress and because the way they speak is somehow a little off. When you meet a Bro, he is either 35 or 58 - it's really hard to tell.

My favorite is they genuinely haven't yet received the memo that white men and their interests are in fact not[b] the center of the universe. That people really don't give a shit what their opinion is, that it wouldn't kill them to actually be interested in something they didn't think of, that they are in fact not geniuses in soccer because they watch the World Cup. They just never shut up.

Interesting.

So, are most bro-dads are white-centric?; essentially racists or closet racists. ?

Unlike your typical basic AWFL, most bro dads have black men as friends.

Racist is not something that comes to mind when thinking about bro dads. Just because someone does a lot of things that are predominately done by white people (surfing, skateboarding, off-roading, lacrosse, etc) doesn’t make them racist

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This thread is just a comparison of nerdy, scholastic, introverts vs social, athletic, outgoing dads.

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I am a proud bro dad

Prep school educated, attended a very mediocre wealthy school in the south, played lacrosse, make a good amount of money, have a beautiful wife and have two kids that love sports. We all dress preppy and hang out at our country club pool.

I play golf with my high school buddies and have a few beers post round with them. We never talk about our fraternities and actually make fun of the guys who still attend their reunions, we talk about our kids, money and sports.

I guess my life sucks.

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I call my son "buddy," and I like beer, play golf, and exercise. I also enjoy a good game of catch, and my grill is my happy place.

But, basically nobody I know in real life would call me a "bro." Among other things, I'm way too likely to talk to them about the latest nerdy book I'm reading. Maybe bro-adjacent?

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Anonymous wrote:So after 18 pages of snark and petty jealousies, I’ve concluded a “Bro-Dad” is basically a nice, fun, fit husband and a good, involved Dad.


I can see why the typical beta-cuck DCUM Dad’s are threatened, lol!

Damn the boys a liar

Huh? Wish we had more bro dads out here!!!

Not many in dc. Mostly uptight stiffs around these parts

Totally disagree with this! I definitely know bro dads in DC.

I think a bro dad is just a bro who is a dad. A bro is just a guy to whom it has never occurred that people (well, the people he thinks matter, which does not include all people) don't agree with him on everything -- politics, sports, life priorities, how to spend money, where to live, even how to parent or maintain their yard.

Like a bro is just an entitled guy. The line between confident and a$$hole on a bro is whisper thin, because they don't know how to be confident without being an a$$hole. They weren't raised that way.

A major feature of a bro dad is that he thinks his kids are the best kids AND that parenting is super easy, but either his kids are also entitled jerks OR their mom or nanny does 100% of the parenting and he just takes credit for it when his kids are well-behaved, good at sports or activities, get good grades, or look presentable. He's never actually helped with any of the work it takes to get kids to that point, but he's pretty sure his kids are like that because of his innate awesomeness. Even though when left alone with his kids for 5 minutes, he will immediately get bored, annoyed, or both, and is apt to call his children lazy, ugly, or stupid if they don't please him. Which is why his wife doesn't let him parent.

Despite not doing any parenting, he will still give you parenting advice. He will give you advice on anything, he's an expert on everything. His job is usually consultant or lawyer or something business-y (DC bros are political or business-y, not sporty or casual like on the West Coast), but he's actually mediocre at it. Bros fail up though, so he might still be high paid -- everyone in his workplace hates him though because he doesn't seem to do that much work but always gets bonuses. Clients love him though!

Bros, and bro dads, often have punchable faces. Colin Jost is a bro dad!

Bro dads talk about college a lot, both their college experience and where their kids will go to college. Bro dads get SO MAD about how white guys don't get into all the good schools with A- averages anymore.

But bro dads can be "progressive" if being progressive means telling other people how to be progressive and also acting superior because they donated to charity. Sometimes bro dads worked in the Obama White House. You'll know if they did. Because they told you. Every time you interacted with them.

Also bro dads can be Bernie Bros! Synergy.

Anyway, lots of bro dads in DC. I have met them on playgrounds, at soccer, at popular family-friendly restaurants. Sometimes I meet a cool fellow mom and am sad to discover she's married to a bro dad. Other times I meet a fellow mom who stresses me the eff out and then I meet her bro dad husband and am like "oh, that explains it."

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Anonymous wrote:I am a proud bro dad

Prep school educated, attended a very mediocre wealthy school in the south, played lacrosse, make a good amount of money, have a beautiful wife and have two kids that love sports. We all dress preppy and hang out at our country club pool.

I play golf with my high school buddies and have a few beers post round with them. We never talk about our fraternities and actually make fun of the guys who still attend their reunions, we talk about our kids, money and sports.

I guess my life sucks.

Yes, you are a bro dad! Of course you are proud of it, bros never understand what is wrong with or annoying about bros.

Your life doesn't suck, no one said bro dads have bad lives. They have good lives, often at the expense of other people. Critical difference.

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Anonymous wrote:I used to work with a NoVA bro dad. Late 30s, day job is in social media, in a band that plays local clubs and festivals, wears jeans with a t-shirt and slip-on checkerboard Vans, has tattoos, but only the meaningful kind related to his music or kids, brunches in Old Town or Del Ray.

Nah. That's a hipster dad.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is just a comparison of nerdy, scholastic, introverts vs social, athletic, outgoing dads.

You can’t be introverted and athletic?

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Anonymous wrote:Are bro dad the ones who wore corporate logo patagonia vests circa 2018?

Absolutely!

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Anonymous wrote:I am a proud bro dad

Prep school educated, attended a very mediocre wealthy school in the south, played lacrosse, make a good amount of money, have a beautiful wife and have two kids that love sports. We all dress preppy and hang out at our country club pool.

I play golf with my high school buddies and have a few beers post round with them. We never talk about our fraternities and actually make fun of the guys who still attend their reunions, we talk about our kids, money and sports.

I guess my life sucks.

You aren’t a bro dad

Did you see the Matt leinart tiktok video?

Bro dads are very west coast or mountain west coded

You are just a normie prep dad

Real bro dads would never dress prep and have a cest la vie attitude that east coast or southern prep dads will never attain due to not being nearly as close to the outdoors

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Anonymous wrote:I am a proud bro dad

Prep school educated, attended a very mediocre wealthy school in the south, played lacrosse, make a good amount of money, have a beautiful wife and have two kids that love sports. We all dress preppy and hang out at our country club pool.

I play golf with my high school buddies and have a few beers post round with them. We never talk about our fraternities and actually make fun of the guys who still attend their reunions, we talk about our kids, money and sports.

I guess my life sucks.

Yes, you are a bro dad! Of course you are proud of it, bros never understand what is wrong with or annoying about bros.

Your life doesn't suck, no one said bro dads have bad lives. They have good lives, often at the expense of other people. Critical difference.

No he’s not a bro dad

Don’t encourage him

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Bro Dads:

https://www.tiktok.com/@americanhighshorts/video/7188635164510162222?lang=en

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Anonymous wrote:I can see why the typical overweight (or sunken-chested) DC dad would be bothered by someone like this.

Omg right? I can see why the DC wonk dads and moms struggle with this - all that expensive education and still the dorks of the class picnic. I’m kidding (kind of) btw- but if you are still “doing you” why wouldn’t a bro dad? You don’t change your identity just because you have kids. Yeesh.

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I’m a regular mom and I meet bro dads at kid events. Another tell is they won’t talk to the moms! They only bro it up with the other bro dads. Once in awhile if they have met the bro dads wife they will give her a hug hello. But they absolutely avoid regular (non bro dad partnerships) moms and seem unable to interact with us lol. It was so confusing to me!!! I work with tons of men and am good work-friends with many and these dudes just cannot deign to even small talk with me.