Grazian's article “The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and Performance of Masculinity as Collective Activity,” and The Hangover show how bromance is part of men's lives. In Grazian's article men perform their girl hunt with the guys at bars or nightclubs. Any place that is related to the urban nightlife. In The Hangover, the guys go to Vegas to do a bachelor party. The purpose or the motive is different but it is similar in the way that they would not have been able to do it without the guys. Going to the club by yourself would make you look like a creep and going to Vegas by yourself would not be fun. Being in a group gives them more courage or strength to do anything crazy. The men in both sources also feel the same way about women. They are attracted to them physically and want to have sex with them. But there is also a difference because in the movie the main character is getting married because he is in love. Another similarity we see in the article and in the movie is that bromance also means being a partner in crime. They cover up for Stu in the movie and Grazian states in the article that men share bonds with similar men to get accomplices. The stereotypes of bromances being gay is proved to be just a friendship through these two sources. Overall they both show us that men do build relationships just like women do and that it doesn't take away from their masculinity but instead builds more of it.
Works cited:
Grazian, David. “The Hunt Girl: Urban Nightlife and The Performance of Masculinity as Collective Activity”. Men’s Lives. 8th ed. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael Messner, Ed. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 2010. 320-337. Print.
The Hangover. Dir. Todd Phillips. Perf. Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zack Galifianakis. Warner Bros, 2009. DVD.
This is a weak paragraph which does not directly discuss what is the relationship between bromance and masculinity. Also, the task for this blog post was not to compare and contrast Grazian's article and the movie, The Hangover. You were asked to use examples from both the article and the movie to illustrate the relationships between bromance and masculinity.
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