Gender-bent bromance?

[MasterY001]

To be more precise, what would you call a "bromance"-type story with girls instead? And how would it compare to a standard bromance?

I typically say "girlmance" (very creative of me). Think Wicked or KPop Demon Hunters. I also thought about posting this random query in the general forum, but I figured authors would have more thoughtful responses.

(On an unrelated note, who here has heard of and/or read The Loud House Revamped? Because I'm becoming tempted to read it and I need someone to stop me).

 

[lambenttyto]

Isn't it just lesbian romance? Girl love? I dunno.

 

[MasterY001]

Isn't it just lesbian romance? Girl love? I dunno.

Romance is usually an afterthought in a bromance narrative. The main focus is on mutual respect and/or brotherhood through thick and thin, like comrades-in-arms but less intense.

 

[MajorKerina]

So just a normal girl friendship?

 

[MasterY001]

So just a normal girl friendship?

Pretty much. Just wish there was a word for that

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Pretty much. Just wish there was a word for that

Girl Crush?

 

[MasterY001]

Girl Crush?

Yeah, that sounds right. Not as catchy as "girl-mance" though.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Yeah, that sounds right. Not as catchy as "girl-mance" though.

But less likely to be confused with a Neck-Romancer....

 

[MasterY001]

But less likely to be confused with a Neck-Romancer....

Oh, Lord...

 

[Cipiteca396]

Besties? BFFs? TVTropes just calls both gender variants "Heterosexual Life Partners".
Ah, come to think of it, it was popular (for a while?) for everybody to call each other 'girlfriends' even if they weren't dating. That may have changed now that people are trying to be less homophobic.

 

[DireBadger]

Most of us call it 'cockblock sheepdogs'

That ugly, moody girl who hangs out with her hot 'best friend' and trashes every guy that comes near. The one high-test liquor exists to help clear the way, so she stops playing bulldog, although it won't help the bulldog look.
Then again, that's what a non-discriminating friend is for. That's why we buy that jerk drinks... because he clears the ugly sheepdog out for us so we can hunt the hot kitty in peace.

Girls don't do bromance. Ever. Their friendships are far more complex and transactional than we bro-dudes could ever hope to understand.

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

To be more precise, what would you call a "bromance"-type story with girls instead? And how would it compare to a standard bromance?

I typically say "girlmance" (very creative of me). Think Wicked or KPop Demon Hunters. I also thought about posting this random query in the general forum, but I figured authors would have more thoughtful responses.

(On an unrelated note, who here has heard of and/or read The Loud House Revamped? Because I'm becoming tempted to read it and I need someone to stop me).

Slice of life~.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Bromance but instead of guys it is girls? We call it fantasy.

 

[BearlyAlive]

Proud nobody dropped Hoe-mance, so I can do it instead.

A friend of mine called that trope "lesbian tryouts". He was talking about the whole all-girls school dynamics, but I think it kinda fits the whole female bromance vibe, at least if people don't use their lower brain to think about it.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

sisterhood?
fantasy-based non-yuri?

 

[OniKaniki]

This is quite funny, actually. Girliance?