Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is a hipster?
Latte sipping intellectuals?
Tattooed, black rimmed glasses wearing folks?
Trend setters?
Don't quite get it.
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I attribute this white people contest to the nouveau hipster.
Now I understand that not all white people are hipsters (or do I mean trendsters?), and probably not all white people are participating in this new game, but I’m talking about white people at large here. To echo Bernie Mac, I’m talkin’ about universal white people.
I kid. I’m talking about the white people who are competing in this contest. duh!
I think hipsters have this need to prove that they are cultured and cosmopolitan, that they can traverse the metropolis without problems. They are post-everything, which is why they like to move to what might’ve been the hood (before they spread the word to their bros who pedaled over with kegs on their backs). They are post-white, post-class, even post-violence because they transcend all these things, they understand them, so they aren’t phased. Moving into the hood is also part of appropriating a middle class aesthetic, which is a key hipster characteristic that Douglas Haddow mentions in his hilarious article Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization.
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The American Apparel V-neck shirt, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and Parliament cigarettes are symbols and icons of working or revolutionary classes that have been appropriated by hipsterdom and drained of meaning. Ten years ago, a man wearing a plain V-neck tee and drinking a Pabst would never be accused of being a trend-follower. But in 2008, such things have become shameless clichés of a class of individuals that seek to escape their own wealth and privilege by immersing themselves in the aesthetic of the working class.
no, i never posted on phillyblog but it did read that site. i grew up in the northeast and besides perhaps the gray lodge i can't imagine what the hipsters you are speaking of would want in that section of the city. i'm not thinking the devon theatre production of nunsense or what have you is going to provide the cultural grease to get the hip youngsters you are talking about moving to the area. do you? even the gray lodge which is one of my favorite beer bars in the city has a pretty strong cyo vibe going on there if you know what i mean.
this thread is pretty ignorant of many of the things you are stereotyping so willfully so hence me posting what i did on the previous page. this coming from a person who, owns a house, works six and sometimes seven days a week, can't honestly say that i ever bought a case of pbr and i do own a single speed bike. i'm not your average one hundred and ten pound hipster either but i do enjoy many of the same things the group you are talking about does.
i do live in fishtown with my wife who grew up in frankford and was born at the former st mary's on frankford avenue. neither of us grew up in the burbs and decided to ruff with the working class by moving to the big ole city.
j/c.. I knew I was gonna get spanked for this. Don't get your panties in a twist.
Perhaps I should have elaborated on what I was referring to and seeing more and more of which is these sleeved women using their access cards pushing a baby stroller with a cigarette hanging out of their mouth.
And FWIW, I do think women having tattoos on their forearms or being sleeved is a bit low class. That's my opinion.
I also hate tatoos on women..I just think of how awful it will look on a 50-something when the body starts drooping and the color fades...but I dont think it equates class or no class...I hate the tattoed necks especially
I have never spoken to anyone with tight jeans and brightly colored fixed gear bikes, but I assume most people on this board haven't either, so how the hell do any of you know that they're trust-fund babies 'intentionally living one step above poverty'?
I also hate tatoos on women..I just think of how awful it will look on a 50-something when the body starts drooping and the color fades...but I dont think it equates class or no class...I hate the tattoed necks especially
I've got a few, but they're only visible if I want them to be. Neck tattoos are just awful. Ick.
I love the look of sleeves, but mainly on a man! So sexy!!!
I also hate tatoos on women..I just think of how awful it will look on a 50-something when the body starts drooping and the color fades...but I dont think it equates class or no class...I hate the tattoed necks especially
LOL, I have a tattoo on the back of my neck too.... I must me the epitome of what some of you people hate.. young (well relatively young), working class woman with tattoos. Why would you care what my tattoos are going to look like when I'm 50? Isn't that my husband's job? With all of the crap going on in NE philly, you decide to pick on women with tattoos instead of the trash destroying our neighborhood (non-working, 2nd generation welfare recipients, ghetto cruisers, and general slobs?)
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j/c.. I knew I was gonna get spanked for this. Don't get your panties in a twist.
Perhaps I should have elaborated on what I was referring to and seeing more and more of which is these sleeved women using their access cards pushing a baby stroller with a cigarette hanging out of their mouth.
And FWIW, I do think women having tattoos on their forearms or being sleeved is a bit low class. That's my opinion.
It may not make them low-class, but it makes them LOOK low-class.
j/c.. I knew I was gonna get spanked for this. Don't get your panties in a twist.
Perhaps I should have elaborated on what I was referring to and seeing more and more of which is these sleeved women using their access cards pushing a baby stroller with a cigarette hanging out of their mouth.
And FWIW, I do think women having tattoos on their forearms or being sleeved is a bit low class. That's my opinion.
DOn't elaborate.
Tattooed arms on Women is a sign of trash.
Or emotional issues screaming look at me.
Same for men BTW.
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I didn't come here for everyone to agree with me.
It's funny. THey try so hard to look hip with the black glasses and tight jeans...
and they all look like they are wearing a uniform.
It's nice though as you can make easy generalizations about how they will act.
They will.
A. Not realize that they are a hipster.
B. Deny it and say they aren't
C. Get super mad at putting them in a group when their whole purpose was to not be labeled and to be "hip" and "original" in their clothes and taste in music and food.
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I didn't come here for everyone to agree with me.
Here is a cute little article I read a while back...
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Philly Obviously A Part Of Embarrassing New Wave Of Five-Years-Too-Late Hipster Hatred
Here we go again. We thought we’d sorted this out before, but apparently not, so listen up, as we’d really like to never have to speak on this subject again: In 2009, there is no such thing as a hipster. “Hipsters” as we know them today are a psychological construct created by breeders and cubicle jockeys with a laundry list of things in the real world that make them uncomfortable, ranging from body images to sexuality to their own miserable life decisions. And when you hear somebody complaining about hipster this or hipster that, more often than not, that person is simply tipping their hands that there are myriad things that bum them out about their own lives; the whole hipster construct is just a way to project whatever negative feelings that reside in that person’s sense of self onto any of the various and sundry cringeworthy things that young people do. (And as it turns out, hipsters in their original Norman Mailer form are probably something we could stand to have around again.) We bring it all up because it would seem that the wages of the so-called Hipster Grifter are presently being paid in the form of a whole new wave of hipster hatred. It’s heating up on Craigslist Rants & Raves again, there’s all the accompanying Kari Farrell gear, and any number of bull**** Tumblr blogs, from lookatthis****inghipster.tumblr.com to Philly’s own homegrown version of that, ****ing Hipsters In Philadelphia. Mother****ing yaaaaaaawn. We’re really still talking about this? Actually, do go on: This is a perfect way to do that spring sweep of “friends” we’ve been meaning to do.
This entry was posted on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 at 10:34 am.
