Anonymous
04/11/2023 15:19
Subject: Not a bro Dad
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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?
Ugh. This thread again. I actually remember this particular post from FIVE YEARS AGO because the “Dave Matthew’s Bland … sorry, I mean Band” thing was just so, so god awful painfully unfunny I was embarrassed to have even read it.
+1. PP’s humor is cringe. And DMB is a young boomer / gen X band. Isn’t OP talking about millennial dads? Millennial bro dads probably listen to nu country or rap or house.
Humor was cringe, agree. But DMB sucks.
Anonymous
04/11/2023 15:17
Subject: Not a bro Dad
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm a dad and bro dads make me tired. Just sayin.
I mean, obviously. Your on a mom site. Can’t get more beta than that.
Why is a man saying “just sayin?”
Anonymous
04/11/2023 15:15
Subject: Not a bro Dad
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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."
Please do a write-up of the moms that marry the bro-dads. Please.
Anonymous
04/11/2023 13:58
Subject: Not a bro Dad
Anonymous wrote:I'm a dad and bro dads make me tired. Just sayin.
I mean, obviously. Your on a mom site. Can’t get more beta than that.
Anonymous
04/11/2023 13:50
Subject: Not a bro Dad
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm a dad and bro dads make me tired. Just sayin.
In DC, by “bro dad” what you really mean is confident outgoing handsome men who were perhaps in a fraternity, married in their mid 20s and had their first child in their late 20s. This of course makes dorky balding men who waited until age 40 to marry a nearly barren woman really insecure. Please, be honest about where this really comes from. You’re insecure about being an old dad (who looks and acts like an out of touch grandpa) in the presence of dads who had kids naturally when our bodies were designed to.
Most handsome outgoing fit guys now don’t get married till late bc they like sleeping around till they are close to 50 and their looks are fading and losing muscle tone
Anonymous
04/11/2023 12:25
Subject: Not a bro Dad
Anonymous wrote:There comes a time in a dads life when tee shirts should no longer be worn.
I'm 52 and still love my t-shirts!
Anonymous
04/11/2023 12:01
Subject: Not a bro Dad
There comes a time in a dads life when tee shirts should no longer be worn.
Anonymous
04/09/2023 04:42
Subject: Not a bro Dad
The bro dad dads tend to get along with anyone while the soy dads are seething balls of resentment.
Anonymous
04/08/2023 21:46
Subject: Not a bro Dad
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm a dad and bro dads make me tired. Just sayin.
In DC, by “bro dad” what you really mean is confident outgoing handsome men who were perhaps in a fraternity, married in their mid 20s and had their first child in their late 20s. This of course makes dorky balding men who waited until age 40 to marry a nearly barren woman really insecure. Please, be honest about where this really comes from. You’re insecure about being an old dad (who looks and acts like an out of touch grandpa) in the presence of dads who had kids naturally when our bodies were designed to.
LOL. Yeah you’re a real cool guy. Keep hanging on for dear life. You absolutely fit in with the college guys you so desperately want to hang with. They don’t think you’re old.
Some of us have moved on. Sweet flat brim though.
Anonymous
04/06/2023 22:54
Subject: Not a bro Dad
Anonymous wrote:Matt Leinert - former USC QB and Bro Dad El Jefe - dissects the Manhattan Beach Dad:
https://www.tiktok.com/@mattleinartqb/video/7208334655613848875
Is this supposed to be funny? You can tell Matt grew up a 5-star recruited jock and got really used to people laughing at his “jokes” even when they’re not funny or original. He’s basically describing any rich enclave in America. Rich dads, modern new build mansions, rich toys, yoga, and expensive and trendy eating habits. Wow what a sharp observation…
Anonymous
04/06/2023 22:47
Subject: Not a bro Dad
Anonymous wrote: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?
Ugh. This thread again. I actually remember this particular post from FIVE YEARS AGO because the “Dave Matthew’s Bland … sorry, I mean Band” thing was just so, so god awful painfully unfunny I was embarrassed to have even read it.
+1. PP’s humor is cringe. And DMB is a young boomer / gen X band. Isn’t OP talking about millennial dads? Millennial bro dads probably listen to nu country or rap or house.
Anonymous
04/06/2023 22:43
Subject: Not a bro Dad
Anonymous wrote:I'm a dad and bro dads make me tired. Just sayin.
In DC, by “bro dad” what you really mean is confident outgoing handsome men who were perhaps in a fraternity, married in their mid 20s and had their first child in their late 20s. This of course makes dorky balding men who waited until age 40 to marry a nearly barren woman really insecure. Please, be honest about where this really comes from. You’re insecure about being an old dad (who looks and acts like an out of touch grandpa) in the presence of dads who had kids naturally when our bodies were designed to.
Anonymous
04/06/2023 22:40
Subject: Not a bro Dad
This thread always delivers.
Anonymous
04/06/2023 22:38
Subject: Not a bro Dad
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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. ?
You know what is really interesting? Most of the racial stereotyping that I see in this thread seems to be targeted towards the “bro dads” as opposed to originating from them.
Anonymous
04/06/2023 21:46
Subject: Not a bro Dad
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?
Ugh. This thread again. I actually remember this particular post from FIVE YEARS AGO because the “Dave Matthew’s Bland … sorry, I mean Band” thing was just so, so god awful painfully unfunny I was embarrassed to have even read it.