Love at First Sight?

I happened to be watching MTV, while away on my mini-vacay and discovered a show called "Bromance." I wondered was this supposed to be the male version of Paris' MY BFF. Apparently not. This is about love between "bros," and not "bros" in an ethnic, black people way, but "bros" as in boys. I found it quite amusing yet interesting at the same time. I may not understand the concept of "bromance" because I'm a chick. I'm pretty opened-minded and thought well their might actually might be something to this "bromance" thing. Here are a few definitions from www.urbandictionary.com in case your confused.

Bromance - noun
1. a non-sexual relationship between two men that are unusually close. (But you can kind of see stuff like this with cousins or brothers, what's the difference?) READ ON!
2. the act of wooing a fellow male friend for the purpose of becoming closer. (Is this a gay relationship that just hasn't managed to go all the way.)
3. Going to unusual lengths in an attempt to become closer with another male. (I thought this was called an ass kisser or cock rider)

What's the big deal?
Apparently bromance has to be a mutual decision between two heterosexual men. And then it dawned on me, maybe this is something that is strictly "cultural" (white people only). I was wrong, bromance, knows no racial boundaries, it is an equal opportunist. After watching the show on MTV it was a bit disheartening. There were grown ass men crying about there feelings. I myself as a woman could not grasp this concept. Many other females say that men can't be sensitive and emotional and here are grown men crying on television not over a death either about how their feelings were hurt. WHHHHHAAAAATTTT??????? I was so confuttled (yes I made that word up). I mean my male friends confide in me and tell me some really deep and fucked up stuff, BUT they don't cry and get emotional. Even if they tell me something that's sensitive, it's more like them opening up and not being so sensitive and cry baby like. Most of this is done over the phone so if they are crying I definitely don't know. I thought that if dudes did cry they did it in like the privacy of the shower. I mean I've only known men to cry on two definite occasions when people are leaving and entering; birth and death. Then of course there is that alternative occasion of groveling either because they are about to get their ass beat, or they really fucked things up with their girl and I think you're allowed a pass on those situations only once. Do men get sensitive, yeah, sure, Marvin Gaye can do that to you, me, or anybody. Ralph Tresvant wrote a song about it, Sensitivity. It might just be cultural with me, but I thought that men who cried with other men, lacked umm machismo. But maybe bromance is proving me wrong. 

So I ask you do you think bromance is real or is it just a public way to say "I'm on the Down Low." By no means am I questioning anybody's sexuality, I'm just saying. Think about it, I have never witnessed public emotion like that unless some one has died or somebody is really angry otherwise it's non-existent in heterosexual men. I'm not saying that you all lack emotion it's not true, I'm just saying that Bromance makes me uncomfortable. I'm not saying that only homosexual men are emotional like this but there is a very thin line. I just don't believe in Bromance. 

What do you think? Don't have an opinion, it could be because you are in a BROMANCE.

**Nia-Raquelle**