Bro is the singular form of Chat
(I have highschool age kids, trust me chat)
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2025
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oh no
This is truly one of the comments of all time
Don't like hearing that.
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I feel like βbroβ is used far more than βdudeβ ever was.
Dude, bro. No.
Lol depends on the time period. Dude was huuuuge during the 80s and 90s.
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Maybe it's just because I have a child that will not stop using "bro", but I agree. I don't recall using "dude" in nearly this level of frequency, even as a huge fan of mutant turtles of the teenage variety.
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Yeah, since it is being used in a different way now. Bro used to be almost entirely aimed at the person you were talking to whereas dude was more general. Bro as an exclamation of disbelief/disappointment has also taken over from dude.
you can have a "certified bruh moment" with zero men involved.
Plenty of women have been called "dude" and called each other "dude" back in the day too.
This has always been one of the funniest things in my queer trans spaces. Some fem or enby folks absolutely do not want to be dude and some are insulted that you won't dude them. It just depends on the person.
As it is with most things, try to tread lightly until you get a feel for the person and can ask them directly or hear directly how they're okay being referred to. I try not to dude people unless I'm sure they're okay with or want to be dude-ed
I feel dude has kind of taken on the role that "buddy" has/had. More negative, provoking even, sometimes also scolding. Meanwhile bro seems to be a tinge more affectionate. Idk that's just how I perceive it
Misgendering potential aside, bro, dude, man, etc., all serve to normalize and reflect societies male-by-default viewpoint. Calling someone a feminine equivalent is seen as insulting and demeaning, or specific only to women. I love misogyny 
Gotta normalize comrade π
call everyone chica
"sis" as an equally gender neutral word alongside "dude"
my coworker calls everyone queen, which is preferable to the male-by-default viewpoint but also introduces monarchist titles which is a bummer
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Like Broseph Stalin, you are leading the way to the dictatorship of the broletariate. It is truly revbrolutionary. Like the Bro v. Wade of our generation. You brobliterate the enemy from the very peak of Mt. Brolympus. Thatβs some shit. Thatβs brolific. But thatβs the kind of bro you are.
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I just call my boys "babe", then we make out, but it's not gay cuz we're totally thinking about HOT GIRLS when we do it.
I am a proud dudebro. Iβm taking that back from the scolds
Im a tactical dudebro.
Posting your everyday carry and itβs just a white claw and a zin tin
SHOUTING RELOAD as I replace my vape
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I'm calling everyone 'baby' so it's not misgendering but they are still spoken down to
I'd be OK with either. The youngins have taken to calling me "sir." 
yes pretty much
not if your a trans woman 
several of my transfem friends say bro to eachother. shit's a different part of speech or something
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Yeah itβs frustrating. Donβt know if Iβm being misgendered but generally I assume I am if a man is calling me bro
at least locally i've noticed it become totally gender neutral.
kind of like how "guys" is often used instead of the more neutral "ya'll" or "comrades"
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Is "fellas" gendered? Honest question, not a native speaker
Yes
Fellas are males?!
(informal) A male person; a bloke, a chap, a guy, a man; also, preceded by a modifying word, sometimes with a sense of mild reproach: used as a familiar term of address to a man.
Fuck! I've been using it wrong for years then. What's a good alternative? Mate is ungendered? I like mate
Here's the first definition of the word fellow on wiktionary:
fellow (plural fellows)
(chiefly in the plural, also figuratively) A companion; a comrade.
Like fellow, mate isn't inherently gendered, but in informal use it pretty much is. You wouldn't typically address a woman as "mate" either
Fuck... So what's a cool non-gendered word that I can use for plural? I thought fellas and mates were cool...
Shitheads
Fuckasses
Motherfuckers
Yous sounds like, or maybe yas.
yous
Can't believe you're encouraging the blatant appropriation of Italian-American culture
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"Dont tase me bro" was when I felt like the word stopped being just a California beach bum thing and became everyone's go-to term for a person they don't know
"Bro, Where's My Car" the new reboot of the franchise
I used alot of bro, brah, breh, bruh when working in my last workplace. For the longest time I was the only woman there so whenever shit hit the fan, which was always, I'd complain with a bruh variant.
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