Help?

[kerravonsen]

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

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[dreamflower]

No, they use netspeak: BFFs.

[jedibuttercup]

BFF doesn't necessarily imply the romantic aspects, though. I've had plenty of BFFs. But only one of them would I have ever gladly yet non-sexually shared a bed with. YMMV.

[dreamflower]

LOL! I think the varying mileage is generational.

When I was a little girl, it was common for children to hold hands with their friends, or even walk with their arms around each other. And slumber parties? Usually two or even three in a bed. (I remember one night of four to a bed, and playing a game of shove the person on the end out--then she'd get back in on the other side and start it all over again with the next person. We laughed hysterically until my aunt came in and made us shut up.)

And there was no subtext to our intimacy because most of us were so clueless we did not even know homosexuality existed. I was a senior in high school when I first heard about it--and thought the person who was explaining it to me was joking. Even when I found out it was real, I figured it must be very rare.

Kids nowadays aren't nearly so innocent, and two little girls or little boys holding hands would probably be mocked.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

I miss that, you know? I'm only in my 30s, but that's how I grew up, too--I have very fond memories of all our sleepovers. And while I'm glad our society has grown enough to acknowledge different styles of sexual relationships, the devaluing of non-sexual intimacy makes me sad. (I suppose bromance is a way of trying to bring that back, after a fashion.)