Help?

[kerravonsen]

Please, someone explain to me what "bromance" means.

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[evilawyer]

As I understand it from the contexts in which I have seen it used, it is a close, close, very close loving relationship with homoerotic overtones between two young men who are like brothers

Of course, I could be wrong about this.

[sahiya]

It means that the show is trying to attract viewers for having slashy subtext (because they've wised up enough to know that works now) without actually having to go out on a limb and have a gay relationship on the show. (In other words, "queer-baiting.")

/bitter

[etakyma.livejournal.com]

Bromance. It is an intense, platonic (read non-sexual) relationship between two unrelated men. Women just have friendships; men get a "bromance."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromance

[madeleone]

*Snerk* My 31 year old son was just talking to me about 'bromance' in sitcoms the other day, like Howard and Raj in The Big Bang Theory, or Chandler and Joey in Friends. Funny that the term should now show up on my flist! LOL!

[dreamflower]

Yep. It's what used to be called "being buddies". For some reason nowadays everyone wants to coin new words by mushing two words together. I find the term both mildly annoying and mildly amusing at the same time.

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

It seems the first time I saw the term, it was describing the friendship between Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. (Incidentally, I've also seen the break-up of such a friendship called a "dudevorce.") So as the wiki article notes, it doesn't just apply to fictitious characters. (Nor was it apparently coined by the entertainment/celebrity media. That I did not know.)

I think I've even seen David Tennant and Catherine Tate's friendship described as a "bromance." (It was a first for me to see it applied to a m/f friendship, but the quality of the friendship--very close without being sexual--seems to apply.)

Of course, in my current media interests, Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki's bromance is very well-known. They've talked about how they hit it off immediately when they first met, they stood with each other in their weddings, their RL friends observe that they behave as brothers in RL. In a way, they've kind of grown up together on the show (inasmuch as a 26/27-year-old and a 22/23-year-old grow up) and been by each other for some major life changes.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

It really seems to have cropped up when Brokeback Mountain came out. Whether it was around before then, I don't know but it certainly hit the media awareness then. When stars were challenged in interviews with having a close relationship with their fellow co-stars the phrase cropped up then.