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Originally Posted by stingc
Yes, it often refers to abandoning friends over a woman. I don't see your implication at all, though. The man is being told to give his friends (bros) some respect. That doesn't (necessarily) have anything to do with the woman involved. For example, it's often used to tell a man to stop flirting with a woman that one of his friends has been interested in.
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And in the process, calling the woman a whore.
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Originally Posted by Vincentt
Well this really means "friends before sex"
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Originally Posted by majik6
"Don't let a purely sexual encounter that means nothing more than a mindless fuck harm or otherwise damage the friendship of the current company, whom you know will be by your side through thick and thin and ultimately when the random person that you picked up tonight has fucked you over or you're no longer interested in her."
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Originally Posted by JinnKai
"Longterm friends before the sexually-permiscuous girl that you are with"
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Originally Posted by rune
"bros before hos" is generally used in a negative manner anyway (got my heartbroke, friend ditched us for girlfriend etc etc)
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Originally Posted by skinnymofo
Although its just a phrase teenaged-college guys use when guys instead of hanging out with them, go and only hang out with their girlfriends for sex.
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And so forth. Pretty much everyone else who is defining the phrase says or implies that it is meant to insult the woman involved, that the guy is choosing sex over friendship. It implies that the only reason a man would choose to spend time with a girl rather than his friends is for sex.
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Since we're now on the topic of how to act around the opposite sex, I think it is important to point out that men usually don't intend (or even think of) every possible implication in their choice of language before speaking. Similarly, there are often things women say that men will never pick up. I think we'd all be better off if we tried to recognize these things more often rather than just assuming a man was rude or a woman was overemotional.
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Agreed. But I don't think it takes much analysis to understand that calling women other than prostitutes whores is likely to be perceived as insulting.