bromance

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One view we heard a lot: that the terms we were headlining - bromance, man-crush, and so on - weren't the angle we should be taking: one commenter writes, "I think the 'bromance' thing is rather gimmicky and unnecessary."

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  • One view we heard a lot: that the terms we were headlining - bromance, man-crush, and so on - weren't the angle we should be taking: one commenter writes, "I think the 'bromance' thing is rather gimmicky and unnecessary." —  WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook
  • What ensues is an awkward but tender "bromance" - meaning a platonic male friendship played out in dude-lingo - which is helping to redefine the romantic comedy. —  J. Weekly
  • "Enter bromance, arguably the next step in the evolution of the heterosexual male," says Manhattan psychologist Joseph Cilona. —  Boston.com Most Popular
  • While the term bromance could be seen as emasculating, much of it is based around the very manly concept of pals before gals. —  Boston.com Most Popular
  • While we're certainly less than fanatical about all these weird new terms, such as the icky "bromance" - UK's "The Guardian" theorizes that the film "Dogma" may have —  News Askew
 

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