You’ve probably heard the word “Bro” used liberally at your local bar or gym. Perhaps you’ve seen it recklessly confused with “dude” or “guy” in an adventure-themed soft-drink commercial. Maybe even you yourself have unwittingly tossed out a “Bro” or few when asking a stranger for the time. But an important distinction must be drawn: just because the guy is a dude, does not meet that dude is a Bro.

Q: What is a Bro?

A: A Bro is a person who would give you the shirt off his back when he doesn’t want to wear it anymore. A Bro is a person who will bend over backwards to help you bend someone else over backwards. In short, a Bro is a lifelong companion (for the duration of your four years studying sociology at a public university) you can trust will always be there for you, unless he’s got something else going on.

Q: Can only dudes be Bros?

A: You don’t need to be a guy to be somebody’s Bro, provided you uphold the moral values. When a woman sets a guy up with her busty friend, she is acting as a Bro. And if she sets him up with other hot friends after he slept with the first one and never called her again, then she’s officially his Bro.

The History of Bros:

While the story of the Bro Code is not nearly as simple and elegant as God handing down some stone tablets to Broses, its origins weave all the way back to the dawn of humanity.

In the beginning there was no Bro Code ,which was unfortunate for the world’s first Bros—Cain and Abel. Lacking an agreed-upon set of social principles, Cain killed Abel and committed history’s first Broicide. As punishment, Cain was doomed to walk the earth alone. Why? Because without a wingman he had absolutely no chance to meet hot chicks.

A long time later (in actual non-metaphorical history), a Bro from Sparta and a Bro from Troy got in a fight over a chick named Helen. According to legend, Helen had a “face that launched a thousand ships,” so you can just imagine what her rack was like. The two Bros waged a terrible war over this chick— the Trojan War. Because of the Trojan War, the world over learned a great maxim: Bros before Hos.

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