People think that when maen have a bromance they can't be masculine as well. The movie The Hangover proves this wrong and shows a good example of bromance. The four friends had a really good bond between them. When they lost their friend they focused on getting him back and tried to keep themselves together. I think a man can still be masculine and still keep their bromance relationship. Their not like girls that are judgmental of everything, they just fool around and have fun. In the movie we see the guys prepare for their night out in Vegas by pregaming as Grazian calls. They had some alcohol to get ready for their night out that they didn't remember. As Grazian said in his article "Pregaming consists of drinking with your "boys" so that you don't have to purchase as many drinks while you are out to feel the desired buzz" (326). This gives the that alcohol courage. Guys do different things in their bromance than girls do with their friendship. They just want to have fun and enjoy a night out, having a bromance doesn't mean you can't still be masculine. It's not like they sit around and talk about other guys like girls do, they still do manly things.
Grazian, David. "The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity as Collective Activity." Men's Lives. 8th ed.Ed. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner. NYC: Allyn & Bacon, 2010, 320-337.print.
The Hangover. Dir. Todd Phillips. Jon Lucas, Bradley Cooper. 5 June 2009. Warner Bros. Productions, 2009. DVD.
This is a good start and your blog post makes a great connection between the movie, The Hangover, and Grazian's article. You also did well with the in-text citation. But your paragraph needs a topic sentence rather than open with a sentence about The Hangover. This paragraph is about the relationship between bromance and masculinity as illustrated in The Hangover and Grazian's article. Last three sentences are redundant. Please correct the DVD documentation and organize the Works Cited entires in alphabetical order.
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