Bromance could become ‘genuine lifestyle relationship', Bad for women

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Rise of the bromance is bad for women, could become ‘genuine lifestyle relationship’: study
‘What happens if these bromantic relationships really take off… Women actually just become the sexual fulfillers of men and nothing else. That’s the worrying aspect’

A key theme of the bromance for men, researchers found, was the freedom to express themselves without judgment, and to engage in emotional intimacy without fear.

Joseph Brean

October 12, 2017
6:01 AM EDT
The rise of the intimate “bromance” as a new form of friendship has liberated young men from the stifling bigotries of homophobia, but it imperils young women who are increasingly regarded as little more than targets of sexual attraction, according to new sociological research.

The bromance may not be the progressive expression of enlightened masculinity, as it is sometimes described and portrayed in movies, said Adam White of the University of Bedfordshire in Britain.

Rather, it may be a regressive development, with especially worrying results for women. His research, based on interviews with male undergraduate students, concluded that men saw their female romantic partners as judgmental, and as “the primary regulators of their behaviour.” This led to a generalized disdain for women, and a view of romance in which men feel they are “constantly posturing and self-monitoring, not only to achieve desired heterosexual sex, but to prevent relationship destruction.”

A key theme of the bromance, on the other hand, was the freedom to express themselves without judgment, and to engage in emotional intimacy without fear.

The rise of the bromance “is very, very good for men,” White said. It offers young men the opportunity for, as the research found, “elevated emotional stability, enhanced emotional disclosure, social fulfilment and better conflict resolution, compared to the emotional lives they shared with girlfriends.”


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€œBeyond the need for sex, we found that for this cohort of men, bromances performed a very similar, and often superior function to romances. Getty Images
“But it’s not necessarily benefiting women, and in fact it may well be disadvantaging them,” White said.

The new paper, in the journal Men and Masculinities, even suggests the bromance could become a widely accepted domestic arrangement. With sex so freely available without emotional attachments, through social media for example, and because bromances occupy such a privileged spot in young men’s lives, “the bromance could increasingly become recognized as a genuine lifestyle relationship; whereby two heterosexual men can live together and experience all the benefits of a traditional heterosexual relationship,” according to co-authors White, Stefan Robinson and Eric Anderson, of the universities of Winchester and Bedfordshire in the U.K.

“What happens in 50 years, say, if these bromantic relationships really take off and men decide, ‘Hang on, we really enjoy these. These are much better. We can gain more emotionality from it. We’re less regulated, we’re


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Cuddling with another man? :dame:

But women can be annoying AF as a guy, similar to guys with no guy friends. I've gone through periods where my only interaction with women I have is to fukk them. Especially when I'm busy
 

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The only true bromance Ive seen be completely platonic was in Scrubs :mjlol:

I've seen dudes nowhere close to that type of bond end up with one of them biting pillows :francis:
 

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:pachaha: what happened to #gmb

:jbhmm: what happened to #hoh

:skip: this is literally the result of the mindset cats on here preach

GMB is about protecting yourself from the biased legal system...and male expectations to be married and take care of a bytch...

HOH is about not valuing sluts, skanks and hoes...before yourself...

Dudes shacking up and splitting bills and doing all types of shyt together is some new shyt...and I ain't ever see Black men be that close...:yeshrug:
 

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This describes the most of the men on the Coli tho. Y'all just want to fukk women, but rather be with your boys all day:dame:

Meanwhile, offline in the real world, I've NEVER heard a straight man actually say he rather be with his "bros" over his or a chick. Like ever.
 

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Human beings need intimacy.. if you ain't getting it from women because you're #HOH or #GMB then you must be getting it somewhere else.. there's no third option, beloveds :Hemad:
 
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