Teen daughter and her friends call each other "bro"

[Anonymous]

H and I have been calling each other bro for years. He’s Mexican so I’ve always called him my Bromigo, and I love baked potatoes so he makes me Baked Brotatoes. We’re in our 40s.

[Anonymous]

Chill out, bro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's "bruh" not "bro". Boomer, LOL

+1

I have (light-heartedly) asked my teenaged students about this. I tried to reinforce "sis", which is also in their vernacular/Tik Tok trend. Why isn't "sis" used as often as "bruh"? Why are girls "bruh" and "sis", but boys are only "bruh", so everyone must be "bruh"? But they don't care. Everyone is "bruh."

My fifteen year old daughter constantly calls me (her mom) and her girl friends bro or bruh, BUT BUT BUT ALSO calls her dad and other men GURL so I think we as women have achieved some sort of weird (and perhaps unwanted) form of equality?

[Anonymous]

Also, thank you for posting this because DD’s use of bro/bruh/gurl has been so constant that I have been sort of annoyed by it. Now that I know it’s fairly pervasive I will let the culture wax and wane and sort it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cool story, bro.

Oh look, a tell-tale sign of a washed up millennial!

[Anonymous]

My best friend, sister and I called each other “dude” all the time. It was the 80s. Dude=Bro of today

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My teen told me “bruh” is not as common and it’s “bro.” 🤷🏻‍♀️

17 and 19 year old sons. It’s “bro” nowadays mostly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My best friend, sister and I called each other “dude” all the time. It was the 80s. Dude=Bro of today

+100

[Anonymous]

My 13 year old uses both bruh and bro. Some of her sentences when referring to me go like this: "Bro thinks she is ...."

[Anonymous]

Here's a good write up:

https://www.33rdsquare.com/what-is-bros-slang-for/

[Anonymous]

My 1st graders call each other bro or bruh, girls and boys both. So it's got to be on its way out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Here's a good write up:

https://www.33rdsquare.com/what-is-bros-slang-for/

That’s an awesome article. Thanks for sharing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:H and I have been calling each other bro for years. He’s Mexican so I’ve always called him my Bromigo, and I love baked potatoes so he makes me Baked Brotatoes. We’re in our 40s.

We’d probably be friends in real life. My husband and I practically have our own language. Our teen is strait laced and barely uses slang.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, thank you for posting this because DD’s use of bro/bruh/gurl has been so constant that I have been sort of annoyed by it. Now that I know it’s fairly pervasive I will let the culture wax and wane and sort it out.

+1

And the local flavor du jour includes a particular specialization of a well-off HS whose (mostly white) male students have a certain air about them (haircut, clothes, shoes, speech, sport). They are called [insert HS name] Bros -- and it's generally derogatory. Everyone else falls within the bro/bruh/gurl category with no consistency to biological gender.

Like a PP, I'll be lost on the current lingo when the last one heads for college.

Whatever. Or is it what'ev's?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:H and I have been calling each other bro for years. He’s Mexican so I’ve always called him my Bromigo, and I love baked potatoes so he makes me Baked Brotatoes. We’re in our 40s.

I love this!