Saturday, July 25, 2015

"This American Bro: A Portrait of the Worst Guy Ever"

"He has existed for as long as there have been gluttonous men dedicating ceremonies to their own existence. Anyone who objects is either a slut or a hater or a minority, and you need to GET ON HIS LEVEL, SON. The only things that change are the miscellaneous wristbands he wears, and the brand of energy drink on the promotional T-shirt they gave him. He is a chest-pounding, chandelier-swinging, Godzilla-id mutant who does not need friends, just a hierarchy of other men around him who will simply acknowledge the noises he is making, his indignance, his fury."
http://www.vice.com/read/this-american-bro-an-ethological-study

This is so well written. It's a ride.
Related: NPR maps the qualities of bros, Douchebag as a social identity of over-privileged white men

FB: "He wants to be recognized, to participate in a ritual. That is the only way he understands success. He is in San Juan or Key West or SeƱor Frog's or some cookie-cutter debauchery enclave. He is going to the Groove Cruise and to Holy Ship!, literally exceeding the domestic capacity for his bro requirements. He needs another country to sustain his biological need to be awful.  He is wearing rosary beads, loving his grandmother, keeping a prayer card in his room somewhere, feeling passionately about State College athletics, going HAM on jet skis, having some vague job at a company that is named VERITAS FINANCIAL or CENTURION."

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