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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As the parent of two young men, one a current college student and the other a recent grad, I have to point out that the critical nuance that many PPs are missing here is what the NPR piece -- which initially came to my attention via my sons -- so incisively sets forth:  the multi-dimensionality of bro-ishness.  Not all bros are fungible, backward baseball cap-wearing, keg-partying frat boys; note the various bro-ishness vectors depicted in the Venn diagram, which suggests greater variability within the bro culture.

As an example, my sons, who are graduates of a local day school and therefore moderately preppy, but who would never wear backwards baseball caps and, who, in fact, used this sartorial element as a litmus test on college tours, ruling out schools where the rally cap look was prevalent, nonetheless qualify as bros because, as varsity athletes in HS and college, they rate high on the jockishness scale, and, despite having chosen to attend a college without fraternities, they looove hangin' with their bro-pals and thus, also have a very high dudeliness quotient.  (Sadly, their stonerdude-ness is virtually non-existent, despite being the first generation born outside of California on my mother's side of the family.)          [/quote]

You seem really invested in your sons' social lives .[/quote]

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