http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/homosocial Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:38:37 -0400 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:38:37 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/356/i-get-by-with-a-little-help-from-my-bros-an-analysis-of-the-male-homosocial-relationship-on-how-i-met-your-mother By Sujay Kulshrestha - As children, we idolize the relationship of our parents. We watch their love and affection and assume that such relationships are easy to find−that love comes naturally. This naïveté is portrayed on the television sitcom “How I Met Your Mother.” On “How I Met Your Mother,” the naïve child is Ted Mosby, who is 28 at the start of the series, and the show follows his struggle through bachelorhood. An older Ted Mosby, in his fifties, narrates the show from the future, telling his two children the story of how he met his wife. Ted grew up idolizing his... Sun, 09 Jan 2011 08:05 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/356/i-get-by-with-a-little-help-from-my-bros-an-analysis-of-the-male-homosocial-relationship-on-how-i-met-your-mother http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/29/from-comrades-to-lovers-the-hollow-men-and-the-broken-homosocial-spectrum By Rebecca A. Demarest - In Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, Eve Sedgwick proposes the idea that not only women, but also men, can travel along a social spectrum that ranges from friends to lovers. However, she argues that the male homosocial spectrum is broken up by male homophobia in society. This is illustrated in various literature, from works by openly gay authors to stories and poems by writers who are either straight or of a questionable orientation (Sedgwick). One such work is T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men,” in which the poem’s speaker uses word choice and imagery... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:32 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/29/from-comrades-to-lovers-the-hollow-men-and-the-broken-homosocial-spectrum