When you meet a guy who pretends to be an introspective intellectual and later find out he’s just a bro in disguise, that’s fratfishing.
Source: Have definitely been fratfished in the past.
@Alice
What was the first sign? Too many Balzac jokes?
@the_etrain Misinterpreted their kinks when they were actually just trying to haze me.
@Alice
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Oh no!
@Alice @the_etrain Now wondering if that's better than the other way around. πŸ€”
@Alice read this as "fratfisted". Had to read again.
@Alice I feel like there's a lot more overlap in that Venn diagram than many people realize
@Alice fratfishing is a strong contender for word of the year.
@Alice My sister married one of those. It turns out he is also a fascfish (or maybe fashfish).
@Alice Tales of introspective intellectuals seem apocryphal to me.
@Alice OH NO IT ME
@GrimmReality πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ˜‚ It is NOT you. Love you, Grimm!
@Alice You're in luck! I'm not introspective, intellectual OR a bro. πŸ˜‰
@Alice it me
@maxleibman NOT you, Max!
@Alice I know, I’m not really that fratty. Just a fake intellectual. πŸ˜‰

@maxleibman I dated this guy who was REALLY smart about pretty much everything and I'd have to google every other topic he'd want to talk about and it gave me so much anxiety whenever we were hanging out in person rather than just on AIM because I had NO idea what he was talking about half of the time.

I learned my lesson and now I prefer to surround myself with likeminded idiots of similar intelligence.