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We need to talk about calling people “bros”

The suffix has had a sufficient run

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Brady Dale
Apr 07, 2026
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Illustration from the cover of Mr. Muscles #22 (1956, Maurice Whitman). Photos from Pexels.

If you look at Google’s Ngram Viewer, the word “bro” took off in 2010.

2010 now feels like about seven different eras of cultural evolution ago, but I’ve been watching this word metastasize into something like a discursive cancer, one that went from a perfectly rea…

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