I'm sick of people calling me "brother" when they barely fucking know me. I have an actual brother. I won't use that word for anyone else except him because nobody else deserves it. I appreciate the sentiment but I don't have patience for performative familiarity.
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Ok will remember it 🫂
Haha right on. If anyone has called me brother I don't want them to feel like they are getting called out here. My electrician won't stop calling me brother and I'm just like... Stop it lol
I just value real meaningful friendships. A lot of people pretend to have meaningful bonds with others despite their lack of effort and I find it annoying.
i don't have a brother, brother. we've ate food and drank beer together. we've shared good times. i look forward to more of those.
Of course! 👍 also looking forward to it! 😃
Not all brothers are share blood most share a cause.
Sure, but some don't appreciate how much sacrifice would be expected of a real sibling and using the term brother loosely seems inappropriate if the bond isn't personal or meaningful beyond something theoretical. I'm talking like donate a kidney to save someone's life, as an example. I'd do it for my actual brother.
Hulk is excluded 😂
ok dude
I call lots of people I don't know well but am friendly with "Boss". It's pretty fun.
That's probably where I got it from! 💀😂
If you have called me brother in the past I'm not mad. I sincerely hope to build friendships deserving of the name. But that's quite a bond and takes a lot of sacrifice. I want people to appreciate the gravity of it.
Perhaps “performative familiarity” breeds human intimacy and bondage/bandage for and from a place of lack and longing. A self fulfilling profligacy or maybe the human condition is half full and bankers have been using this human tendency to love our neighbors against us, most cynically, to gird this more and more wobbly full faith and credit facade.
Words matter but so does our baseline and inherent will to love.