The Bro Code

• Published in: CM (Winnipeg) Vol. XXVII; no. 14
• Main Author: McMahon, Ruth
• Format: Magazine Article
• Language: English
• Published: Winnipeg CM: Canadian Review of Materials Association 01.12.2020
• ISSN: 1201-9364

Excerpt: Contrary to what you might have heard, I didn’t sleep with Eliza O’Connor. Did I want to? Have you seen her? Could I have? Have you seen me? But I didn’t, even though people will tell you I did, because I attend high school with a bunch of world-class trolls. They’ll regale you with other gossip, some of which is true, like the prank I played on Mr. Hoover (the purple in his hair wouldn’t come out for a week), and most of it is somewhat true, like I once picked up a girl by walking up to her at the concession stand at a football game and saying, “No.” (I actually said, “No, we haven’t gone out before, and I vote we change that.”) A few of the stories are not true. And me sleeping with Eliza O’Connor is one of them.