The Bro States of America
This week’s presidential election results are yet another reminder that a certain culture pervades our country.
We are drowning in bro culture.
Bro culture is rife with toxic masculinity.
It’s awash in banal racism, casual misogyny, and a pervasive hatred of “the other.”
Bros love minorities in sports, they just don’t want them to have equal rights.
Women are awesome as long as they are compliant.
Bros worship at the altars of Joe Rogan and Elon Musk.
The president-elect is the ultimate “bro president.”
He behaves like an overgrown frat boy.
He’s rude, crude, and immature.
He’s unintelligent and unintelligible.
But he represents bro success.
He marries hot foreign women.
He brags about grabbing women by their private parts.
He doesn’t follow rules or societal conventions.
Those are for “the others.”
The bros are the ones who made the difference in the election.
Bernie Sanders says the Democrats ignored the working class.
They weren’t ignored.
Kamala was committed to working for the working and middle class.
But the bros wanted their idol reelected.
A woman’s place is many places, but not the White House.
And a Black woman?
Not in their White House.
The White House will now be the Bro House.
Real men respect everyone.
Real men reject racism, sexism, and nativism.
Real men respect personal choice and bodily autonomy.
Bros respect macho posturing.
Bros resent anyone in authority except other bros.
The proliferation of bro culture is responsible for the election result.
Bro culture may also be responsible for the fall of the republic.