Bro-Culture
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2019 12:06 pm
I'm not too engaged in things outside of my work , wife, kids. Reading the Bro-logy from the BOSS shells made me acutely aware of a couple things:
1) That there is a BOSS shells
2) That Bro is something I don't get, at all
Thinking back over the years the closest I recall were the "dudes". Sort of cool, sort of slick, cocky for reasons I never understood, and maybe had a decent quad parka from Columbia that was a bit too clean. There wasn't blogs, vlogs, YouTube, heavy metal home videos with ULTRA slow-mo kill shots, and you had to spend more on your camera equipment than hunting equipment to get 'effects' that any phone off the rack will give you today.
I'm guessing they listen to whatever is considered Country these days mixed with some sort of dramatic pop-Rock like Imagine Dragons. The Black Hoodie crowd has given way to Flat Bills. No logo can be designed that doesn't involve the skeletal depiction of game, and everyone needs to 'identify'. I assume tatoos are considered the cover charge for entry, a skeletal depiction of game getting you Premium Access.
I don't see in the young people I hunt with. My buddy's kid/friends are normal. One still shoots a pump and he's 28 making bank with a 'real' job. My kid doesn't have to be told to leave his phone in the truck, he just does it if we're hunting. If we're fishing he gives it to me so it's available for a picture. Never had to instruct it.
So, is the Bro-Deal just a small group that seems bigger because they "identify', in all of their purported individualism and "cowboy" they have created some sort of collection that earns mass via social media? Or is this the next wave? So, in 10 years when my kids is in his early 20s guys like the BOSS Bro's will be his outdoor idols, like Foiles to Fowler? Or is it simply an exaggerated 'stickers' phase that will pass as a fad to be replaced by some other, larger thing that I understand even less about.
I can't speak Bro. Hoping someone that speaks Man can shed some light on the Bro trend.
1) That there is a BOSS shells
2) That Bro is something I don't get, at all
Thinking back over the years the closest I recall were the "dudes". Sort of cool, sort of slick, cocky for reasons I never understood, and maybe had a decent quad parka from Columbia that was a bit too clean. There wasn't blogs, vlogs, YouTube, heavy metal home videos with ULTRA slow-mo kill shots, and you had to spend more on your camera equipment than hunting equipment to get 'effects' that any phone off the rack will give you today.
I'm guessing they listen to whatever is considered Country these days mixed with some sort of dramatic pop-Rock like Imagine Dragons. The Black Hoodie crowd has given way to Flat Bills. No logo can be designed that doesn't involve the skeletal depiction of game, and everyone needs to 'identify'. I assume tatoos are considered the cover charge for entry, a skeletal depiction of game getting you Premium Access.
I don't see in the young people I hunt with. My buddy's kid/friends are normal. One still shoots a pump and he's 28 making bank with a 'real' job. My kid doesn't have to be told to leave his phone in the truck, he just does it if we're hunting. If we're fishing he gives it to me so it's available for a picture. Never had to instruct it.
So, is the Bro-Deal just a small group that seems bigger because they "identify', in all of their purported individualism and "cowboy" they have created some sort of collection that earns mass via social media? Or is this the next wave? So, in 10 years when my kids is in his early 20s guys like the BOSS Bro's will be his outdoor idols, like Foiles to Fowler? Or is it simply an exaggerated 'stickers' phase that will pass as a fad to be replaced by some other, larger thing that I understand even less about.
I can't speak Bro. Hoping someone that speaks Man can shed some light on the Bro trend.