Comments on: Bro-lliant, but a bit brong

By: Historiann

Historiann — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:30:24 +0000

Ha! Good one, MM. Or, shall I say, “bro-vo!”

By: Monocle Man

Monocle Man — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:21:36 +0000

praise for A-bro-ham in Arms

“innovative and thought bro-voking”

“clearly written, bro-gently argued”

“the writing bros elegantly from insight to insight”

“its clear and lively exposition recommends it for teachers who wish to bro-vide students with a gendered analysis of events”

By: Historiann

Historiann — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:14:04 +0000

Ha! You got it, Indyanna. It’s all about the Benjamins.

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:13:18 +0000

Only mightn’t Emerson have said “…my last BENjamin,” a bro what launched a thousand bro-therhoods? I’m seeing my west-end gym through completely new eyes since this post first aired, although still waiting to see some bra’ punch another one in the chest playfully.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:59:52 +0000

FA–right on: another appropriate historical example of a brommunity. American literary history is replete with them too: the Transcendentalists, and of course, the Beats.

Bronson Alcott: Dude, be a bro, and lend me $100. It’s, like, totally croosh. I’m writing all day long on this unreadable educational treatise, and my wife and daughters are having to work as nurses and governesses to support us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: OK, bro: but I can only lend you $50, because Thoreau took my last C-note and I’m, like, totally tapped.

By: Feminist Avatar

Feminist Avatar — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:39:11 +0000

In my neck of the woods, we have always thought the Scottish Enlightenment ‘crew’ (Smith, Hume, Miller, etc) were a real set of bros. They hung about Edinburgh New Town, eating and drinking too much, in male only company, never marrying, and then complaining of their drunken exploits (in a way that is really boasting imo).

By: Historiann

Historiann — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:35:35 +0000

Ha! Julia, I doubt you’re the only one. Some won’t admit it, but others are probably using it for their American Studies Ph.D. dissertations. . .

(Plus, Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives are just that show plus affluence.)

By: Julia

Julia — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:21:49 +0000

I’m sure I’m the only Historiann reader who has seen this show, but if anyone wants to see a plethora of “bras, bros, and d-bags,” check out five minutes of the MTV show, “Is She Really Going Out With Him?” It’s incredible that people like this really exist…

By: Historiann

Historiann — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:00:07 +0000

CPP: clearly, you work with too many men.

Indyanna–be a bro, and refill my dram o’whiskey. That’s what early 19th C dudebros would be drinking–cold river water, even from “undiscovered” rivers, was downright dangerous to drink!

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:16:03 +0000

Northwest Territory? So Lewis and Clark were lying low in the Maumee Valley when they were s’posed to be scoping out the Columbia? There’s a breaking news item if we can get some film. (Or I guess, since Ohio had been carved out by 1803, we’d be talking about the Wabash or maybe the St. Joseph?) Either way, I’d be surprised if there hadn’t already been some high-fiving and way-to-go-Bro’ing at the Stamp Act Congress in 1765. There’s never an earliest known anything in history…