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Originally Posted by stingc
Maybe some of this disagreement has to do with how men and women generally interact.
It is not at all uncommon for good male friends to regularly "insult" each other, and generally say things that are as outrageous as possible. None of it means anything. It's just an (admittedly immature) way of passing time/having fun. All men know, however, that you can't talk to women like that.
From what I gather, female friends never use insulting language to each other unless they really mean to offend. They in fact seem to go out of their way to make sure nothing they say can possibly be intepreted as even slightly offensive.
Men much more often take the point of view that words can only be offensive if they're meant to be. With that in mind, "bro's before ho's" is not meant to imply that the woman is a whore. The word "ho" is used just because it rhymes, and the expression is well-known (I don't know its origins). It's actually more often meant as an insult to the man. Some possible translations might be "grow a spine" or "stop thinking with your dick".
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That it rhymes doesn't really alter that it's a contraction of "whore". Many others in this thread have said that the phrase refers to abandoning friends in favor of sex with a woman, which would seem to indicate that "ho" is being used to denigrate the woman involved.
In any case, even if we accept that it's a phrase that's acceptable among male friends, that's not how it was used here. It was used here in public among a large group of women. Even if we accept everything you say, it was still rude to use it in this context.