When Is It the Right Time For a Bromance to Drop the B–Or, Shall We Say, the B.S.?
It seems useless to point out the fact that heterosexual males have always been friends with one another. From ass-grabbing on the football field to anal rape in prison, man-on-man companionship has run the gamut from being totally platonic to homosocial, to brutally homosexual without ever encroaching on gay culture-that is, until now. Somehow over the course of the last decade or so, a magnifying glass has been placed over the interpersonal relationships of straight dudes and in 2008, the phenomenon of the “bromance” has reached a sudden fever pitch in popular culture. While Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were able to escape gay-baiting punchlines in the late 90s, male celebrities today are all but prohibited from hanging out without speculation being made as to their sexuality. The reason for this isn’t, as the Seattle Times proposed (paraphrased by Gawker), because “guys are marrying later, more of them are living together to offset the financial hardships of subsisting on a single income, [and it allows] bromances to flourish.” It’s actually because they are ALL GAY.