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Visi(bi)lity: Isn't it Bromantic?

Sex and Sexuality post by Carrie Nelson on March 21, 2012 - 11:54am; tagged bisexual, bisexual visibility, bisexuality, bromance, bromances, Humpday, male friendship, sexual fluidity, Superbad, Visi(bi)lity.

“Humpday” movie posted. Two shirtless men wearing blue boxers face each other, arms folded. They stand in front of a pink background.What’s the line between friendship and romance? This is a big question that we’ll address throughout this series, but today, I want to explore it in the context of heterosexual male friendships. Specifically, I want to explore it in the context of the 21st century’s offshoot of the buddy comedy—the “bromance.”

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Genderlicious: Catharsis for Radical Anti Racist Feminists to "Regular Dudes"—Why do we watch what we watch?

Sex and Sexuality post by Thea Lim on July 19, 2010 - 9:42am; tagged bromances, catharsis and viewing, hot tub time machine, true blood, why do we watch what we watch.

At my home planet of Racialicious, I recently started up a True Blood roundtable, where five of us weekly go to town on the various racist-sexisms of everyone's favourite vampire show.  As the grumpiest of the bunch, my opinions on True Blood are vastly more negative than positive, especially when the episode is heavy on violence against women—which increasingly seems to be the theme for True Blood's newest season.  So sometimes we get commenters who ask us, why the heck do y'all watch this show anyways? 

When my fellow Racializen Tami asked us all this question during our first roundtable, we didn't come up with any great reasoning. I talked about how in the past, I had quit watching the show over the persistent rape motif, only to be drawn back in. Others blamed the interesting plotlines and comparably good writing for keeping them watching.

It seems like radical, anti-racist feminist pop culture critics are not alone in this phenomenon—that is, the phenomenon of subjecting ourselves to hurtful viewings. Apart from exposing myself to regular doses of vampire sex violence, I also have a soft spot for bromances. And I've noticed a trend in bromances of late (or maybe it was always there): the rape-or-sexualised-humiliation-scene-as-comedy. 

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