Before the sexual-assault claims against Justice Brett Kavanaugh totally fell apart, one of the knocks on him, wielded almost as evidence of his guilt, was that he went to an all-boys school.

When NPR set out last decade to define a “bro” (“a specific kind of fratty masculinity”), one of the criteria was a tendency to hang out with other dudes.

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